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Hey, hey, hey, hey. Welcome back, everybody. Welcome to episode 52 or 53. I'm blanking. I'm not going to check because I don't want to restart. It's your boy, Julian. Welcome back. Something wrong with the podcast? Today's episode's focus is, is solely on the Grammys. Yes, we have a music only episode and I'm quite excited because I was really. I mean, it's music. This is like a major part of my being in existence. And Grammys really do something to me. As much as we downplay their significance and try to change the course of what matters and put the public's opinion over those that are, you know, the powers that be, there's still something about the Grammys. There's something about those, that level of talent all cramming into a single theater, dressing to the occasion. It's. It's a unifying event. Meaning, like, everybody rises to the occasion. Unless you're Bieber and you show up in pseudo underwear, which we'll get to in a second. But just such a boss move, but, like, everybody conforms to and puts on a show for the event. Because at the end of the day, the Grammys, the event is about these artists, but they're also taking part heavily in making this event a memorable thing as it is. And then they're making history in the process. So these artists are not only nominated, they're performing that night, you know, and they're doing these red carpet walks at night, do these little interviews, like, they are the show is for them, but they are the show. So. And these are, you know, natural performers. So it's, it's quite a fun dichotomy to see, like, this whole balance between artistry and celebration and celebrity. But nevertheless, let's get right into it. The biggest winner of the night, to no surprise, at least to me, was Kendrick Lamar. He took home five Grammy awards. He is, I'd say finally, but rather quickly surpassed Jay Z as the most winning rap artist with 27 current Grammy nominee Grammy wins. Pardon me, to Jay Z's 25. Let's go over the awards he won this past weekend. He won record of the year for Luther. And I do want a little quick note on record of the year, because people get record of the year and song of the Year confused. Song of the year is about the writers. It's basically the writers award, while record of the year is about the producers, the engineers, the clearances, and basically everything on the back end that really goes into making a record. And I wanted to call that out specifically for this year because I thought it was really special that when Kendrick accepted this award, he led with thanking the Vandross family. There's a. Obviously, the song is called Luther. There's a heavy Luther Vandross sample on the record itself. And I think it was really cool that they. How much he shared with the room and us as the viewers, how much them clearing that meant to them and also sharing with the rules of the record that the family came, because that is something that can happen if someone, you know, if the Luther estate owns the record. They can, you know, say, hey, you know, they obviously have final say over how their song is used, but also you can hit stipul stipulations on it, like, hey, no cursing on my song, which is what they did here, which is very sweet. And Soundwave did an incredible job on this beat. And I'm so excited that he got to get up there and speak on behalf of the production duo on this record. And it was really. It was just. It was beautiful to hear them all celebrate the legacy of Luther Vandross. And then, furthermore, the Vandross estate gets a Grammy as well. That's a Grammy that also goes to the family and accounts for Luther's legacy. So it's a pretty incredible moment. And I'm sure any artist that grew up, you know, listening to any genre, but certainly, you know, in the black community, I grew up listening to a lot of Luther Vandross. My dad religiously had on Luther Vandross's hits In the House and in the Car. He's very much ingrained in my early developmental years in the home. So I'm just thinking, even from my perspective, I had the opportunity to give back to somebody to that degree at the highest level, at the highest honor, to give back to re honor their legacy and re inject them into the cultural zeitgeist. I think that's such a cool thing that Kendrick and Sza were able to accomplish. So kudos to them and I'm happy for the way that he went about that speech. Really giving it up to the Vandross family. Let's continue. That's one of his five awards. The other one he won is best Rap Song. Again, to no surprise, he won that. Which was. What was it? It was TV off with Lefty Gunplay. Pretty cool to see Lefty Gunplay win a Grammy. It's incredible. Good for him. Best melodic Rap performance again, it was record of the year. To no surprise, Luther won that as well. Best rap Performance. This is. Kendrick won this award as a feature. This is clips. Shout out to clips. I'm so happy that they won this award. I am selfishly just going to turn a blind eye to the Epstein file stuff for now regarding Push's involvement and just celebrate this Grammy win. How about this? More so for Malice. Good job, Malice. You're. You're incredible. And Kendrick. So that was another Grammy of his. That was Best rap Performance. Rightfully so. I remember I shared. I did go to that tour. I went to their shows right before New Year's. I think it was the day before New Year's Eve at Brooklyn Paramount. So much fun. Kendrick was not there. But like the performance of that record, they do such a good job with it. It's really great to see that live. And I believe that was it for the night for Kendrick. Huge, huge night for him. All well deserved. And again to no surprise, Kendrick's momentum doesn't seem to be slowing down now. Remember, GNX was the project that he put out as like the final nail with the seemingly the final nail in the coffin after the. The feud with Drake. This is like the post beef victory lap, so to speak. So now we're in the phase of like, has the dust from that settled? I don't think it ever really will. But in terms of like Kendrick's release schedule, will he go back to releasing what I would say Kendrick level albums? And it sounds like I'm dissing gnx. But to me, and I said this when it came out, gnx, I think it threw its. Even through even how it was released, like a surprise drop. And through the features on it and the sound of it, it to me plays like a mixtape. So I mean going by my rules, if this mixtape won all these Grammys, then shit, kudos to him. But I'm very curious to see how Kendrick moves forward when he's creating an album and what is the new character that he's going to develop. What's the new story that he's trying to tell. And what. What messaging does he like? I'm genuinely curious. What. What is his focus moving forward as an artist? And how will the last few summers affect his creative process in developing these characters? Will he be miss morale and the big steppers? Where will he revisit this character of, like, you know, a downtrodden, like, scorn, like a bad lover? Or will he, you know, the obviously good kid, mad city, this journey of, like, getting out the hood. Like, what is this next phase for Kendrick look like? I think it's gonna be really, really interesting. And I'm excited to see what he's got next. And I feel like it's gonna come sooner than later, if I'm being honest. Let's continue, though. Again, so much good music and so many awards to talk about. Do I jump right into my favorite part of the night? Yeah, come on. I mean, I think I've said this before, and if I haven't, you, like, it's. If you know me, you know I am a belieber, which sounds crazy. When I was a kid, I wasn't into Bieber stuff, to be honest. I came across. Well, Purpose came out on my birthday in 2015 or 16. It was November 13, 2015. I fell in love with that album immediately. And then I went back and loved Journals. So it really. For me, it's like the journals, it was purpose first. Then we'll go back, fell in love with journals and then from there it's been like, Bieber's been fucking incredible. This album Swag and Swag 2 are fantastic. Bieber put out like over 40 records this past summer, none of which won a Grammy. Bieber came home with zero wins. But beside Kendrick, I'm here to stamp that Bieber won the night and I'll explain why in a second. Bieber was nominated for only two awards tonight. No, sorry. He was nominated for. Let's just run through him. He was nominated for album of the year, best solo performance, best pop vocal album, and best R and B performance. Zero like goose egg on the night. He has two Grammy wins. You want to talk about someone that should have a beef and a Vendetta? Bieber has two Grammy wins over in 23 nominations. This guy's like. He's just. His batting percentage is terrible. He's like fucking Shaq from the free throw line. But we can shelf the disappointment of him not taking home any hardware. His performance of the night I Yukon. If you're not familiar, go listen to Uconn if you're not familiar, go listen to the Grammy performance of Yukon because that shit is like crap. Give me that right there. It is just crack. It's a rush of blood to the head. Shout out Coldplay. Great album. This performance. I mean, I'm not joking when I say I've probably watched it. I downloaded it. It's on my phone. I probably watched it or listened to it. Not really watched it because I'm, you know, working and stuff. I listened to it probably 20 times today. Then I went back and listened to both of his tiny desk. Well, his one tiny desk and then his like at home garage thing he did of journals, which I love journals live on YouTube. Check it out. But they, they call it. What's the. What did Drake say? You know, the, the Bieber face. Like the Bieber effect, whatever, what have you. I'm looking at some charts right now. They have like the spikes with Justin Bieber's performance and the viewership and how much higher his spike is over. Everybody watching all at once. And his. The amount of Google searches that were made for him during his performance, I mean, he still has a gravitational pull and weight that no other artist. I think he was just like the perfect mix at the right time. And he really popped as a child superstar in this era of celebrity, of the new era of celebrity, and grew with social media and just became just, you know, a meteor. He's. He's still somehow getting bigger. Pause, but like. So let's talk about the performance though. Bieber takes the stage. He's. He's just got a loop paddle of a guitar playing, which he has a guitar as an accessory on. He doesn't actually come out playing it in the performance itself, but he's in what looks like underwear, but it's probably just, you know, just a shorter pair of shorts in socks. Walks out on stage. The loop is playing the guitar loop is playing and there's a set of keys and I believe that. I don't know if there was a B pad. There was a pad there because he was doing some hot cues. The two chains. Yeah, like he dropped that a couple times, but he was playing keys and just sultry, just really sultry, really slow. And you know, I saw some think pieces like, look what men can do versus, like, look what the women have to do to put on different shows. And I think, like, they're just misconstruing, like what creative direction really is. I think the beauty of this performance is ever since that song came out Yukon, people were starved for the real vocals from that song. And they had leaked at one point after the album came out, not prior. And people were like, oh my God, this song. It was already incredible. It was already charting, but it just got so much better. We need these live vocals. We need these live vocals. So I think Bieber rather geniusly knew that this is what people were wanting and were clamoring to. And instead of giving us the full production and full stage set and show, which if you watch the award show throughout the night, hats off to Tar the creator. The guy's. He's cemented as an actor. Obviously he killed it at Marty supreme, but he put on, you know, a live theatrical performance. Sabrina Carpenter did this whole thing on like this airplane, you know, Runway build out, which was super. Again, theatrical and like moving all over stage, getting pushed all over the place and outfit changes and all getting lifted up and moved all over. And Lady Gaga doing everything Gaga does is always a set and show. She's always in a crazy costume. She looked like a Mortal Kombat character. There's no shortage of budget and there's no shortage of creativity when it comes to a live Grammy show. That being said, Bieber, which is usually honestly one of my favorite things that people do is when they take something that is so pushed in one direction and then just do the inverse of it and give people exactly what they wouldn't expect. So much so that he not only stripped down the performance, but he stripped down himself to the costume and he basically deflated the room just like how I just did right there. You feel. You just feel like in that, in that pause I just did, you can feel the weight of all the talking and all the momentum and everything I've just said. Just kind of.
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In. There's so much power in silence. I'm a bit of a art nerd. A lot of my favorite artists are masters of using negative space. What that means is it's the part of the canvas that they don't touch or the part of the, you know, the painting that's just blank. It's. You're you. But it creates these shapes and it creates these moments that speak just as loud, if not more. And intentional too obviously. Now this is an accident than the actual brushstrokes themselves. And I think Bieber, this is the vocal equivalent of that going out there with just a guitar, some underwear and socks and just hammering, just live vocals in this mood lighting and just stripping down the entire room and just leveling everybody to like every. It was, it was, everybody was transfixed. I mean I was, I. It was. I mean there's in the clip that's on Twitter that I've been listening to all day. Well, that I ended up downloading. You can hear at the very end when he's done, Trevor Noah just goes, wow. Like, it. It what? It was a wow moment. And I'm, I'm so happy he did that because again, I think Bieber's one of those kids kid, one of those artists that he doesn't know his shit. He doesn't owe us anything. A part of me thinks, you know, he's headlining Coachella. Why not get a warm up rep in like get seen, like, obviously that he's gonna have no issues, you know, at the event. But like, you know, why not touch a stage, do a. The rendition that people have been clamoring for of your, you know, one of your many hit songs from this new album. And I just think, you know, no crumbs. Like he fudgeing knocked it out the park. I'm not even a big Hailey Bieber fan. I think she can be like a pretentious bitch and pretty mean. Her track record shows that. But like, even them panning into the crowd, showing her doing her little like this thing and the crowd pops when she shows up on the screen. Like there's levels to this shit. And like Bieber is, he is the ceiling. Like, you can't beat Bieber. And it's, it's something that he has managed to recently, like just keep it all together. I know people in that performance said they look at him like he looks awful, he looks exhausted, he looks physically ill, all of those things. I don't, I'm not here to necessarily cast judgment or say things like that, but just at least the way he's been carrying himself as an artist, I mean, hats off to him throughout this whole year in this album cycle, he truly is just like a one of a kind generational talent. And yeah, I'M just, I'm really happy that he gave us that performance and if you haven't listened to that, that song Uconn, listen to it again. It's just an acoustic version of it and it's. Yeah, it's incredible. Shout out Biebs Other performers of the night that I mentioned. Sabrina Carpenter, another artist, another young rising pop superstar who was shut out in the Grammy evening. She did not bring home any hardware last night. She was nominated for a few, quite a few, including Best Album. But she only. She has two wins. They both came last Grammys so they came for Best Pop. Best Pop Performance in Best Pop Vocal. Remember that Espresso song was like a meteor that, that took her out of here. So she did Again, incredible performance of the night. But the Grammys are tough and they really, they don't like. I'm noticing a pattern where like they don't reward you, they don't care to really reward you. Back to back. It's like you have your moment and then it's on to whoever's next. And good for her for like being there, you know, performing and doing her whole thing. But yeah, like she came home again with, with nothing which is interesting. The. The most to be. Let's go through before I get to what I was about to say. Olivia Dean, my darling like my new Like Snow, Allegra Obsession basically. I know they make very different sounding music but I'm just saying in terms of like a fe vocalist, I'm so happy for her. I think she was a shoe in. In a runaway for Best New Artist but knocking down some heavyweights along the way. She beat like Addison Rae and a few others that I'm blanking on as well. But like she was a late submission in like a late, you know, a late contender in terms of like how fast her, her stardom came to be and how, how much she won the hearts of seemingly everybody. That album is incredible. She performed Man I Need I Believe which was incredible and she won Best New Artists which is really cool. I'll get into the artist speeches in a bit, but her being one of them, talking about her parents being immigrants and she is from the uk. We'll get into all that in a hot second when I get to a specific artist, other artists that I want to shout out. Kehlani won for Folded. It was her first Grammy which is incredible. This Kehlani beat Bieber. This song beat Yukon which is like God damn like Stiff competition. Hell of an award to win. Get your first dub and shout out my Man, Dixon, the homie Dixon takes home his first Grammy. He worked on that record, which is so cool. So I'm so happy for that whole team in that camp. And Dixon, if you're. If you're not familiar, check out his. His solo music, but he is truly one of, like, the kindest and sweetest guys in this industry. He's one of the best pens in the game, but he writes a lot with Kehlani. But he also is just an incredible vocalist and. And human. He's really, truly one of the. One of the nicest guys I know in this industry. So super happy for Dixon. He looked clean last night, too. I saw the fit. My boy. You look great. In other fucking amazing news, Lola Young took home her first Grammy for Best Solo Pop Performance. This was big for many reasons, because she's, you know, first Grammy is always a huge deal. She actually, when they announced her name, she, like, jumped out of her chair and was like. It was like she saw a snake and just, like, ran away from everybody. She just, like, needed to be alone as best she could. She was seated on the floor. So she just ran away from the tables and just kind of like, coward and like, what the fuck is going on? And then takes the stage, gives an amazing speech. But if you're not familiar, she'd had a performance. She did some festival I think was in Connecticut or. No, was it in Queens? I think it was. It was maybe in Queens, but she fainted on stage. I actually knew some people at that show, and they said it was horrifying. She collapsed on stage and was battling a lot of mental health issues, which she had been pretty vocal about up until that point. And then that collapse was like a first outwardly physical thing that people had seen a physical moment from, from her that, yeah, it was definitely in Queens. That was like, you know, anytime you see that, it's daunting and scary. And especially when you're expecting you're having a high, you're super excited to see her perform. And then, you know, just quite possibly the worst situation, he just flips the whole emotion of the atmosphere on its head. But I'm so happy for her. This is a triumphant story of someone that is going through some shit and got an incredible. The recognition that she deserves in a hell of a win. And that being said, awards don't cure notoriety, and awards don't cure mental and physical health issues. So that being said, it's not like, yo, you got the award. Life's great. You're fine now. I'm sure. These are ongoing things for Lola that her and her team are dealing with regularly. But like, I hope it's at some level. This is like a golden band aid that, you know, it's. You're. You're doing what outside of all the struggles with your personal life, you're doing everything right with your career. And you're not only doing it right, but you're getting the, the recognition that you deserve from, you know, the 15,000 voters of the Grammys. So kudos to her. I'm super happy for her. That song Messi is incredible. I'm sure if you, if you don't know who Lola Young is, you've heard the song. It's one of those. It just came out of nowhere. Well, meaning like she came out of nowhere. I'm putting that in heavy quotes because obviously none of these artists come out of nowhere. But it is just such a fun, fun record and she's a hell of a vocalist. So.
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Shout out to her. Let's get to the big dog of the night bed Bony. He took home album of the year. Let me see how many actually awards he won. Best Music Urbana Album, obviously. Can that. Best Global Music Performance. Oh, who won Best album Cover? That's a fun award. Oh, Tyler, the creator. Oh, cool. Tyler did get one tonight. I did not know that. That's fun. Bad Bunny won a few awards tonight. He became the first Spanish artist to win album of the year, which is incredible. Fitting. Obviously. It's always funny how art is always like. Can be like a mirror or not a mirror, but like a. I guess a mirror would be the wrong word. Yeah, mirror. Because it's opposite. Yeah. Well, it's like a mirror in reverse in terms of like the political climate is so anti. Well, certainly Spanish, Mexicans, Hispanics, Latin Americans, anybody from South America. But at the same time, it is exactly what American culture. Globally, of course, but more in particular, to my point, what American culture is Craving so much so that he's doing the Super Bowl, a sport that only exists in this country. It's really odd how those two things can coexist. How, you know, kids can get kidnapped and people can get shot in the head and people can get deported for no reason. But at the same time it's like it's. People want those people to succeed, they want them to perform, they want to see their faces, they want to, you know, welcome them into their homes Again. Going to stay off politics as best I can during this segment, but obviously like the, the, the like big ticket item of the night beyond Bieber was the collective effort of every artist to wear these ICE out pins and use their platform, the acceptance speeches, as many times as they can to speak out against the current atrocities that are taking place all over the country. Most specifically in Minnesota with the loss of a couple lives. But there are pocket incidences that are happening that are just awful all over the place. I heard recently, today or yesterday, that they have gone. They've made their way into New York in the Hudson Valley area and upstate where my parents are. My mom said there's unmarked vans and vehicles and they're scooping people upstate as well. So it's, it's, it's weird because you see it on the news and it feels so far and foreign, but now I'm hearing it from my, my loved ones that they're in our backyard, literally. So that being said, Bad Bunny, I think is incredible. Uses his platform responsibly. Responsibly. Uses his platform responsibly at all times. And it hits harder coming from him. No disrespect to Billie Eilish. I'll get to her in a second. But like it, I think the message hits a lot harder when it's coming from a Bad Bunny. Someone that bagged groceries not that long ago. And now look at where he is in his life. He's like the perfect story for what it means to be a, an American. And again, this dude's from Puerto Rico. He's not a fucking immigrant. Like, he's not a foreigner. He's, he's a citizen. Um, but I'm so happy to see that he, you know, used his first award as the opportunity to. And he doesn't like, he's not like, mean, he's very humble and soft spoken. And yes, English isn't his first language, but you can speak that certainly better than most people, A lot of people that I know that are against ice, but he, he, he leads with love and obviously that was the message of his, of his speech. But he. Not only in the words is he leading with love with the message itself, but his tonality and how he carries himself. And you can tell how much he physically feels these things. And he's a super emotional artist. And I think that that's not just limited to the art that he creates. I think that's inherently who he is as a person. He's deeply empathetic and emotional. And it's really cool to see that manifest in a. I mean, it's not. It's sad, but like in a plea of sorts to, you know, the audience at large about everything that's going on. So I'm just, I'm just happy that someone like that is as important as they are in a time like this. And let me say this, I'm saying all of this as somebody that doesn't listen to his music. I'm. I'm. I'm not even like the guy that's like, yeah, I love Spanish music. Bad Bunny's man, if I'm out and it's on sick. But like, I don't listen to Bad Bunny in my personal life. But like, again, and I think this is lost in the art, in the, in the era of us living on our custom timelines and doom scrolling on a fee that's catered to us. Not everything needs to be built and catered towards you in what makes you comfortable. Not everything has to fall into your level of comfort. You don't have to understand everything. Sometimes it's better to learn and just experience new cultures and new things. So in this instance, the Super Bowl. I'm so excited to see this man do this show. I've been to a show, I've been. I've seen a Bad Bunny headline a festival at Made in America. A few years ago when I was on the old podcast, we went as a crew, it was. None of us knew a damn word except Eden. But it was incredible. We had such a good time. And that's. It's sometimes not, you know, being the outsider can be fun. And if you open up that side, if you let yourself be a little vulnerable and not afraid of the unknown, you can really enjoy yourself. So that's what I encourage people to do this Sunday during the super bowl is not turn it off. Or you know what? If you do turn off, fuck you. If you want to turn off, go fuck yourself. Go put on that bullshit. What's going Kid Rock and Bret Michaels to all the fucking old white men with fucking Blonde wigs who, like, go ahead, put on the Trump special show. Knock your fucking self out. Like, load up your gun, fucking shoot something. Like, I don't. Like, if that really, if that's what you want to do, then fucking do it. But, like, if you're just, why, why, why put yourself through that level? It's. I feel like it has to be exhausting to be racist. To like, actively be a bigot has to be the most tiring thing of all time, especially in a city like New York. But also the way in which this country is kind of trending in terms of like, mixed races and cultural blending. You can't just live with that much hate, bro. Just like, try something different, experience. And look, if it's not for you, at least you tried it. But it doesn't mean you need to hate the people. You're like, hey, I tried. You could. Damn. No, knock on Ethiopia. There's the first country that came to my mind. You're like, you know what? I tried Ethiopian food. Maybe it's a little too spicy for me. Not for me. But you know what? The service was great and the restaurant was. It was a good time. I have nothing against Ethiopian people. I just don't think their food, or at least the cuisine that I had today was for me. It doesn't have to be like, that shit sucks. Fuck the whole goddamn country. Like, you can, you, you can give and take a little bit. Doesn't have to be like, all or nothing. We don't need to live in absolutes, people. Jesus Christ.
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Rant over. Let's go on to Billie Eilish, which I'm not going to front, bro. Like, I feel is cool, but like, I don't even know how to, like, word this properly without sounding like a hater. I think it's really important for white people to speak on behalf of minorities. I studied a lot about when I was in high school and more so in college about civil rights movement and other civil unrest throughout history. And there's a pattern that occurs more often than not. It's when the minority groups obviously start. Start the revolution, but it really doesn't get the legs or the juice that it needs until those from the majority side latch onto the cause and become a part of the cause. So for example, the Montgomery bus riots during the civil rights movement in Alabama. Not bus riots, sorry. Like the rideouts there were the first whack at. It wasn't great. But then like basically fast forward, some white people joined. And their sole purpose, obviously they agreed with the cause, but they knew their role and they played it well. They knew their role was to basically protect and keep safe all the black Americans that were on the bus being like, hey, like, you gotta hurt. You gotta. Going up to the racist white people, the police, whoever was trying to disrupt them and stop them from getting to their destination. You got to fuck with us to get to them. And they're like, well, you're white, we can't touch you. Like, we actually love you. But then they're like, ah, I guess like if you're. Then we gotta. They'll let the bus go through like, because that's how simple fucking racists are. So. But like, it takes it. There's a key that there's an element that these people play. And they're never, they're never supposed to be the stars of the face of the movement. I think that. I think they're better served behind this, behind the scenes a bit in supporting in times like that where you can like help a case and advance them, advance the minority groups, but not make it about you. I think Billie Eilish has a good heart. She's young too. I think that's a lot of like this. It gets caught up in, in her, her youth as well, maybe. But I love, I mean, she's saying the right things. Maybe it's just her, maybe it's just how she looks. It doesn't resonate with me. And also like, there's this thing too where like I think of like old protests, like when the Dixie Chicks basically said like you to George Bush, like during their performance and like other groups that were protesting things that weren't so like vehemently hated by everybody in the country. Like, we can really be serious here. Even Republicans don't fuck with what ICE is doing. Like, this isn't like something that's really dividing the nation in like extreme pockets. It is but like most like moderate conservative people are like, this isn't good. Like, this is probably one of the worst things that could happen domestically. So I don't know, I say all that to say, like, it's not like you're. It's not. You're kind of like grandstanding when you're going up there and doing this thing. Like, I don't know, to me, maybe the pin is enough. Maybe like the support, but like, I don't know, it could just be me hating on Billie Eilish. Also. This is really why I'm fucking salty about her this year. And this is crazy because I love this album and I'm going to sound like a hater. What? It would hit me harder. Fucking come fast. Whatever the name of the album is, it's a great album. But her song Wildfire, Wildflower, Pardon me, was a single for the album. And mind you, this album came out in 2024 before the Grammys. So it ran through last year's Grammy cycle. Like the 2025 Grammy cycle. It was nominated for a bunch of shit. Did not win. Two weeks after the Grammy Awards last year, she re released Wildflower as a single, therefore making this record eligible yet again for this Grammy cycle. Now you may be asking yourself, well, how is that possible? If she ran this album through the Grammy cycle for the Grammys the year before the 67th Grammy Awards, how is she eligible again for the 68th Grammy Awards? Well, I looked into it because she won zero awards at the 67th Grammy Awards. I guess loopholes. There is an eligibility clause where you can resubmit an album for the Grammys as long as that music releases within the cycle of the incoming that like the following cycle. So in this case, the 68th Grammy Awards. So that's what she did. Like I had just previously mentioned, two weeks after the Grammy losses where she got goose egged, she puts out Wildflower as a single, a standalone single which still lives on the album. Like, you really wouldn't notice this. And then now that song is then again eligible for the Grammys, which is insane for so many reasons because this song just lost and it's an incredible song. I sound like a fucking hater. The album's incredible. Hell of a fucking song. I love this song. But like, it did its Grammy cycle, it lost. So for it to come back and win, what does she win? She won like a huge award. It's actually, I think she won like song of the year, which is like, are we serious people? Yeah, bro. Like that. Not crazy. Like, I know, like the Grammys rigged like the whole this is like. I know it's not like, as publicly offensive as Macklemore beating Kendrick for album of the year when that thrift shop shit beat Good Kid, Mad City. But this is like it's. She won on a technicality, honestly. I mean, like, the technicality is she was able to even resubmit and get nominated again. That's where that should have ended. The fact that she won is like, who do they grease to get the platform? Because I. This is why I think, like, the whole fucking protesting is like, it sucks. Ish with her because I feel like they gave her this dub so she could go up there and give a speech. That's kind of how I feel. And that again, could be some hater. My conspiracy mind is kicking tonight. But look at this. She won song of the year over Bad Bunny, dtmf, Dot Anxiety, that Hunter X, that K Pop, that golden shit, which was clearly the winner. Like, it wasn't even. That song hit a billion streams like 10 seconds after it came out. That song is like it's got a billion views on YouTube. Like, that's by far the clear winner. Like, it is not even just ended there that should have won. But let's continue. Kendrick again. Sizzle Luther. I get it. But Luther won record of the year. Sometimes they like to split those awards. Okay, we can can that one. Lady Gaga, Abracadabra. Great record. Okay, Understand why that one lost. Ros. And Bruno Mars apt. That was a huge one. And Sabrina Manchild. Sabrina Carpenter Manchild. How about the fact that Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild fucking actually came out in the goddamn cycle for this awards, which was a bigger record than Wildflower? I think it's crazy that this song was even eligible. I think it's even more egregious that it won. I do. Like, again, I don't know. Like, if. If. If the Grammys had like an investigative journalist, if they had like a Pablo Torre to look into this. Like, what did the. What did Billy do to get this? Not like the nomination and the win. Like, the win is mad. Sus. It's really fucking me up because it should not be allowed to do this. I don't. I like, I'm a hater with. No, it comes to this shit. Don't fuck up the process. Like, you. You got enough. You're a huge winner. You're so fucking up. Like, don't do this, like, gamey shit to fucking get an award to then get a platform, to then talk about get your shit off your chest that you've been wanting to get off that. It was corny to me. But anyway, I don't know. I. Let me know if I'm right or wrong. I just feel away. That bothered me. But let's continue. What else happened? I mentioned clips winning when I went over Kendrick's awards, but again, Chains and Whips one for best rap performance. Chains and Whips. I fucking again love this album. Can't say it enough. I listened to it today at the gym to no surprise. It's. I mean, the performances are great, the album's fantastic and it's cool to see them get this level of shine. I love this. There's a video of Tyler, the Creator in the crowd rapping word for word as they're. As they're performing. And it's just. It's so cool to see, like, artists be fans of each other. Shout out. Leon Thomas Mutt won best R and B album. Well deserved. That album is. Is incredible. I see he beat Teyana Taylor. I'm only just going to bring her up because that girl, anything she puts on, I mean, Jesus Christ, she's so fucking jacked. She looks incredible. Leon Thomas also won traditional R and B performance for Vibes Don't Lie. And again, fantastic record. There was a great tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Post Malone and damn, I forgot who else was in it, but that was great. It's cool to see Posty. Post is a sleeper for, like, someone that always cooks those like, tribute award ceremony performances. He really, like puts his fucking foot in those. And like, obviously Ozzy meant a lot to him, but he really, like brought it and he's done a few of those. I've heard him do a couple or maybe if not an award tribute, like he does covers quite a bit and I've seen him just like absolutely crush every cover that he does. It was really awesome to see Lauryn Hill and Wyclef John reunite, obviously, two of them being members of the Fugees. They did this amazing. D' Angelo and Roberta Flack. They blended like the. The soul. And it was a really heartfelt performance. It was. It was really cool to see that the Grammys are really good at creating those like, unique one of a kind moments or just becoming the. The impetus for a reunion. So it's really cool to have them have that moment together again. On that Post Malone tribute. We had Post Malone's. Sorry that Ozzy Osbourne tribute was Post malone slash. Duff McKagan with a powerful rendition of War Pigs. That was the record that they did, which is pretty awesome. What else happened throughout the night? Trevor Noah again. Sixth, sixth year in a row. Hosting his final year hosting. I like Trevor. I like when award shows lock in with the host and just let them know because they know the cadence, they know the flow. There's no learning curve after a show or two like you, you know what to expect. And I think Trevor does a really good job of, you know, being a comedic relief, which is really what you want, an award show because they are long, they can be boring. But you know, shout out Trevor for holding it down for the last six years. I believe that is all I have to say. The biggest, other biggest news in music this week. J. Cole's album comes out this week, the fall off. I'm super excited. He put out the mixtape with a few records for his birthday, which is incredible. J. Cole shares the same birthday as my older brother Antonio, my political brother. So it's really cool to. He was very geeked and happy that those records came out on the same day as his birthday, which is really fun. Speaking of birthdays, my dad's birthday is coming up soon in about a month, but we're celebrating it this week. I'm taking him to the Lakers Nets game, which is going to be really exciting. And I my dad might listen to this before we go to the game because again, this comes out the day of the game. So I'm going to save some surprises and will not spoil them here for fear that he is listening to this right now, probably on the train on the way down to the city to come meet me. And my brother is coming from D.C. as well. We're going to go together. It'll be a nice little family affair. So yeah, I'll save those surprises for after. Maybe put some video in here as well. But yeah, guys, this is a great episode. I've been geeked for, for the Grammys. I'm super happy that this is. It was, it was good one. And we have a huge sports weekend Super Bowl. Based on all these, you know, predictions and all the chatter, it seems like Seattle's the clear favorite. Fuck New England. So I don't really give a shit about the NFL to be honest. But I guess I'm rooting for Seattle and I just honestly I'm a big fan of a good game in Wings. If I get Wings in a good game, I'll have a good night. That's really how I feel about, about Super Bowl Sunday. Excited to see Bad Mollie. Really curious to see if he comes out in a dress. I Saw those, all those posts and rumors about him coming out in a dress. Who gives a fuck? He'd come out in his underwear like Bieber. Who gives a shit? That would. I would love it because it would make the right people pissed off. That being said, love thy neighbor. Take care of each other. Take care of your loved ones. It is brick as fuck here in New York. I hope everybody's heat's working. I'm not gonna front. I think my shit was jammed up last night. It was. I was so fucking cold in bed. I have like a heating pad on my. Like a bed pad that's heated. So, like, in bed I was straight, but, like, if my shoulder peaked out or if I, you know, had to go to the bathroom, it was just like. It was ass. Like, I don't. I'm comfortable, obviously. Now I'm in a T shirt. My. Everything seems to be working. But there were heat outages in New York. Stay safe out there. Stay warm and yeah, just, just, just keep an eye out for each other. Keep an eye out for your loved ones. And go check out that UConn Grammy performance. All right, guys. Love y'. All. Peace.
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