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Kendrick Lamar Gets More Grammy nominations than Taylor Swift

  • Tunde Arogun
  • Dec 10, 2015
  • 2 min read

Taylor Swift left anything besides a "Blank Space" in the designations for the 58th yearly Grammy Awards, accepting gestures in the Big Three classifications - album, record and song of the year - however hip-hop emcee Kendrick Lamar exceeded her for general selections.

Lamar finished everyone with 11 selections. Quick earned seven, as did maker vocalist the Weeknd.

The chosen people for collection of it are "1989" (Swift), "Magnificence Behind the Madness" (the Weeknd), "To Pimp a Butterfly" (Lamar), "Sound + Color" (Alabama Shakes) and The candidates for record of the year are "Clear Space" (Swift), "Uptown Funk!" (Mark Ronson including Bruno Mars), "Verbally processing" (Ed Sheeran), "Can't Feel My Face" (the Weeknd) and "Truly Love" (D'Angelo and the Vanguard).

The candidates for song of the year - a lyricist's grant - are "Thinking Out Loud," "Blank Space," "Alright" (performed by Lamar), "Girl Crush" (performed by Little Big Town) and "See You Again" (performed by Wiz Khalifa including Charlie Puth). The candidates for best new Artist are Sam Hunt, Meghan Trainor, James Bay, Tori Kelly and Courtney Barnett.

The Grammy consideration reaffirms Lamar's significance in the wake of what happened two years back when his album, "good child, m.A.A.d city," came out. He was basically commended then - and selected for seven Grammys - however came up unfilled for awards.

Presently he's topped Eminem as the hip-hop artist with the most assignments in a solitary year.

"Lamar's accomplishment is all the more great on the grounds that he did as such with 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' an album so difficult and musically complex that fans and commentators are as yet biting on it about nine months after its discharge," the Los Angeles Times' Gerrick D. Kennedy composed.

Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow lauded the differences of the field.

"Artist are pushing limits in energizing ways, making it an extraordinarily solid year for music," he said in an announcement.


 
 
 

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