woohooo chris brown….

Avant…give it up! You’ve been gone from the industry for too long, and you are getting kinda old to be coming back. Good luck just the same…

Amy better not bring her ass to the Grammy’s gone off that *hit!

Congrats to Alicia! Unfortunately I didn’t aid in her CD become #1…

THEY TRIED 2 MAKE ME GO TO REAHB…. …..NO NO NO NO NO…… ….BACK 2 BLACK IS A BEAST. …IF U AINT KNOW..U SHOULD.. ..COP FRANK TOO WHILE U AT IT…………..

Yay for Ye Graduation is the shit. Can’t Tell Me Nothing is my anthem.
Bee still ranking them in I see. Go to see R&B still running thangs. I have never heard the Flo-rida song.

I spelled is his name wrong, lol, oh well.

I AM SO HAPPY AMY WINEHOUSE CAME TO USA BECAUSE SHE MAKES BLACK SINGERS (AT LEAST 90% OF THE SINGERS OUT) LOOK LIKE SHIT (MUSICALLY WISE THANK YOU!)
AND YES, SHE LOOKS A HOT MESS, SHE MUST BE CRAZY BUT ALL REAL
ARTISTS ARE. BUT OF COURSE, BECAUSE CREATING SOMETHING (WHICH A LOT OF ARTIST NEVER HEARD ABOUT) REQUIRES THAT YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY THAT EVERYBODY BEFORE YOU, TRANSLATION, BE ON DRUGS LOL AND SOMETIMES YOU CANNOT HANDLE IT!
BUT I HOPE SHE IS GONNA BE OK BECAUSE I AM SO TIRED OF FREAKUM #### !!

The only way Avant will sell records and really be seen is if he switches up his style.

First of all he looks like R. Kelly as it is and there is nothing about his voice or his sound that sets him apart from any other R&B singer.

as for R&B and Hip Hop.. we will always be at the top!

Amy needs to eat a sandwich and lay off that pipe before she go to the grammy’s.

ME AND MS JONES?!! DAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM
EVERYBODY SHOULD COPE HER ALBUM, IT GIV EME HOPE THAT SOME PEOPLE STILL KNOW HOW TO DO REAL MUSIC.
IRREPLACABLE IS SO OLD NOW, IT WAS OK SONG BUT TOO POP!!

@ #6. She looks black singers look like shit? Really? Go somewhere with your crack-addict loving racist ass.

makes*

Chris Brown’s song is wack and that pic of him makes him look extra gay

Can’t say that the Grammy’s made the right choice choosing that god awful Fergie album

I am black and I said that she make real black music that Beyonce, Rihanna and some other artist !!
yes i said it!!

Good for Kanye! And STFU at #6

so glad for kanye and amy winehouse! i hope amy can get it together by then!

yes really, cause we black people only look at her look, she looks a mess but first, she was not looking like that before.
Secondly, her music is MORE BLACK!! And i hope our black singers will feel ashame and come back to her who run black music. Period!

@Christelle

Please! Amy Winehouse is just copying what black artists have been doing for years but don’t get recognition for it because of their skin color. Amy Winehouse wouldn’t even have gotten attention if she was a black artist

oh and by the wAY, SHE IS NOT THE ONLY SINGERS ON CRACK, SHOULD I REMIND A CERTAIN WHITNEY HOUSTON. OF COURSE, SHE SHOULD DO SOMETHING BUT SHE IS WAY MORE TALENTED THAN A LOT!!

APPLE BOTTOMS,

YOU ARE RIGHT, BUT THAT IS NOT CALLED CPYING THAT IS CALLED “INSPIRED” AND I WOULD LIKE MORE SINGERS TO COPY ALSO OUR BLACK LEGENDS BUT THEY DON’T?!!

@13.- Just because Rihanna and Beyonce are always put on blast everywhere does not mean that there isn’t black aritsts making Great Black music. India.Arie, Anthony Hamilton, Musiq Soulchild, Jaheim, Guadeloupe(sp?), chrissette michelle, Angie Stone, Macy Gray, Jill Scott the list goes on and on. You need to expand what you’re listening to before making judgements on a whole group of people u self-hating dumb azz

because even jay-z called her to work with her?! so that means something for real!!
But we still have Mary, jill Scott, Erika, and a lot of others but they are not recognized for their music cause it is not pop so it is cool that real black music is represented sometimes. It is just sad that the artist have to be white but to me it does not matter cause as i alwas said : once i put the cd on my stereo, i don;t see if she looks good or looks a hot ass mess, i want good music and i got it!

Queen latifa, just read my post below!
I agree with you

Amy Winehouse is the TRUTH. NOBODY can deny her talent. *Christelle is right when she says that Amy is better than 90% of the R&B “singers” out today. But I personally think she’s better than 99% out there.Her being on drugs has nothing to do with her talent, just like it had nothing to do with Billie Holiday’s talent or has nothing to do with Whitney’s talent.

@Christelle

If everyone just started mimicking artists from the past then there would be no progression in music and we would just be listening to the same shit everyday.

Thats why there is an emphasis on Contemporary R&B (Beyonce, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, Amerie, Keyshia Cole, Ciara) cause its a modern form of R&B that combines all the elements that have made music what it is today. Learn to adjust and stop complaining.

and i am not dumb cause she is in the same category as these artist except music shoulchid, too corny to me. And i also listen to jazz, to african music, to european music …
so no need to call me dumb cause my culture musically wise is surely wide than yours!

they are doing shit,
because, they are always trying to give a same sound and they are not trying to expand (as you say) the range of the possibilities). At the end of the day, you have a asceptic music that looks like the same, and nobody is able to say who is who? so we need vocal identity, superior productions so yes, i hear new music but since i hear a lot of old music, they are shit!! it is just like people are not able to create nothing.
And i bet you don’t have the Frank album of Amy cause black to black was oreinted! but Frank is way better again (you see it possible!)

You can’t mimick the type of voice Amy has. Of course her music beats and whatnot are mimicking old school music, but she adds a modern hip-hop & R&B twist to it. All music originates from somewhere, there’s no harm in honoring pure music from back in the day.

Whoa is getting vicious in here! Congrats to Avant, he may sound the same but he obviously has staying power, and unlike kell’s, he’s not pissing on little girls! He’s got himself another pass. Congrats to all the artist, I dig em all (except Chris Brown, my “ABC, and “The Boyz” days are loooong behind me!)

OMG I absolutely cant stand that crackhead Amy Winecrack seriously!! I mean WTF why the hell would you scratch your pus*y in the middle of a performance and spit on your fans I mean that is effin disgusting smh….that is sum messed up shyt…

Im glad for Kanye, Alicia, Beyonce, Chris Brown for the Grammy Nominations and Charts woo hoo…gotta love R&B!

I own Amy Winehouse’s album because it is a great album but I don’t have to be simple minded (like you) to know that the contemporary R&B albums that have been coming out are good, cause they are. Just because they don’t have a live band in the background does not mean that they’re bad albums.

@12″ APPLEBOTTOMS” Girl please!!!! stop hatin on chris brown OH! by the way guess what U say really DON’T matter to any one his song IS numero UNO skank and bet your butt look like a dawm raquette YOU SKANK GO take A shower

Whatever, i just hope, it is going to draw the path for a better recognition of real soul music artist like all we know because they really deserve it!

They DO NOT sound the same. And for your f-in info i have BOTH amy winehouse albums, im not sayin she’s not good. But YOU need to stop belittling a whole group of people who u are obviously biased against.

@31

I’m gonna ignore you since I’m sure you’re just a 10 year old little slut who needs to be in school. That seems to be his only fanbase, pre-teen whores who need an ass whipping quick.

i mean numero DOS

#30, i just don’t like it, sorry. I compare them with the best and they are not! period.
The musical cjhice are too easy, people are looking to make money cause that the only thing they want. they don’t give a dam about music. That is why when an artist is tortured, his music is better. Music today, is about the look and as a woman, i don’t give a FUCK about how a singer look like period. I don’t wanna see a sexual show when i go to a concert I keep it for me and my boyfriend! narrow minded, if it is because i love to see a girl that blow with her voice even when she looks bad so yes i am! for sure.
but again, we already have some artist doing that, and we need more!

Damn! Y’all serious! LMAO!

Anyways, the official nominations have not been printed yet. This is speculation from industry insiders. I’m sure it will pan out but it wouldn’t hurt to wait a couple hours to get the real list of nominees.

Im going to ignored that little comment you just made. seems like you just a dirty foot gurl based on your name APPLE BOTTOMS girl please i just SEE IGNORANT when i read your comment GROW UP!!!!!!

Kanye desrves it! His album was the best of 2007!

they do sound the same,rihanna sound like beyonce.
J.holiday sounds like trey song
ciara sound like janet
I will not be able to continue the list cause i don’t listen to the radio so oftenly, one hour per month is enough to know what is going on in the music industry. I go to the disc shop to find some new independant music to refresh my ears but if i say madlib, oh no, jaydee, you won’t be able to know who they are so lets just stop here!

Music isn’t solely about the voice. You gotta have both the voice and the lyricism (clever or poignant), which Amy Winehouse has but many others in Contemporary R&B have as well so that doesn’t mean that they’re bad because they use a hip-hop producer.

They make such a big deal about white folks that sing Black music.

oh and kanye is really good cause he takes a lot of risk musically wise! and i love it!

@38

And the name BABY means something? Bitch please! Go hug your Chris Brown poster and go back to bed. He can’t sing, he can’t act, and his album is garbage.

@40

Amy Winehouse sounds like every black female soul artist from the 50’s and 60s…she isn’t original neither.

You are right,

but again, only few take the time to write properly!

44,

you really don’t get it lol. This voice is a gift from god. Nobody has this voice nowadays, like few have the erica badu voice!!
My point is at least, she sounds BLACK!! Unlike our national pop folk! that is it?!

@Christelle, don’t be hatin’ on J.Holiday, he sounds NOTHING like Trey Songz. I agree with you on everything other than J.holiday, ‘cuz he’s keepin’ it real and making good classic R&B music.

Rihanna, Beyonce, Ciara, Janet, J Holiday: they are all commercial. I’m not talking about them. I’m talking bout that list of black artists plus all the ones i didnt bother to write in my earlier post. YOU need to listen to THEM, as i said before. There is real black music out there and u just refuse to accept it. Its whatever, continue thinkin Amy Winehouse thiefin ass is the best thing since slice bread and deprive yourself of the ability that YOUR people actually have. Real BLACK music is out there, you’ll get it when u pull ur head out your ass

I think Avant has talent but he is boring I don’t think the switch in labels is going to change that.

Side note: I did like that song ” U know what”

What happened to Case and Donnel Jones

to 48,

you are stupid cause you don;t read my posts!!
so lets just stop here, i am tired!

Go Kanye !

to 48,

you are stupid cause you don’t read my posts!!
so lets just stop here, i am tired! all these artist are on my list and i said that if amy winehouse is recognised for that it is realy encouraging because maybe other artist that do real BLACK music are going to be recognized by all the world.
But i do believe that HER voice is amazing!

@Christelle

What is there to get? Your argument is wacky, you’re obviously some obsessed adolescent fan of Amy Winehouse who hasn’t been shown the good black music that exists right now.

Queen Latifah has two great jazz albums that are just as good as Amy Winehouse’s. Jill Scott has a much more powerful voice and her albums are damn near perfect.

what???
i know that, dam how can i explain it to you cause i am not sure i am talking chinese by maybe, i will speak french so will get it.

Jill soctt is nice, erikah is nice, queen latifa is nice too, and so is Amy. You happy?

noone wants to know black singers who sing like amy winehouse….we need to learn to suppot our own people more.

Even though I think Amy is the bomb, I do agree that if she were black she wouldn’t get as much recognition. But at the same time, I think there is racism within the black community too. If Beyonce and Rhianna were dark skinned, do you think they would get the same recognition that they do now???

Congrats to Kanye & Wino. If Wino would leave them drugs alone she’d be str8.
**I don’t know about “good music” in 2008, cuz it was real average to me this year, with a few exceptions**
I wish avant the best, he’s been around for a while and is so under rated.
Alicia’s CD is great so she deserves to be doing so well.

Apple bottoms,

just give up,

we are saying the same thing since the beginning, for seome reasons, you wanna fight. You will have to find someone else for that cause i know hell black music, that is the only thing i listen to! but a lot of people don’t and the fact that amy can be awarded for that is a good thing for black music that is all!! And yes, jill scott has a great voice, dangelo, donnell jones, jaheim, Antony Hamilton (the best), LAURYN HILL

oh and Alicia, sorry I forget her (my bad)!!

@Christelle

You need some help with your spelling and grammar…cause it sure is painful to read your comments.

SORRY

I AM NOT ENGLISH BUT T LEAST I KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ANOTHER LANGAGE THAN MINE, CAN YOU DO THAT?

And try to focus on the topic! You have nothing else to say now. BITCH! this one, is spell it right??

I LOVE Amy Winehouse! Her music IS incredible! If you haven’t listened to her album yet you are truly missing out. (You can’t call yourself a true R&B fan unless you’ve at least given it a listen.) I hate how she’s messing up her life but that has nothing to do with her talent. She most definitely deserves a grammy!

# correction “did i spell it right for you motherfucker?”

Christelle I feel what you are getting at. Maybe since I’m “older”-33 (lol!) I can’t get into Beyonce, Ciara or Rihanna. I own NONE of their music. I rarely listen to the radio–too commercialized!!! But I do rock my XM radio. I don’t feel pop music at ALL. I do have both of Amy Winehouse’s CDs–love them! I love REAL music-Teedra Moses, Amel Larrieux, Mary J Blige, Ledisi, Jaguar Wright, Goaple. None of these women need to shake their asses, be half naked on a magazine and I will buy their music and support them!!

I Love Amy’s music but ole girl has got some problems, I feel bad for her.
Kanye deserves that grammy.
There are a lot more artists out there that dont get the recognition that they deserve.
Jill Scott has a banging azz album. So does my girl Ledisi. I can do without Soulja Boy… that music is for kids.

Thats right @ Sayanything… Ledisi is the iisshhhh

UMMMMM… SMH @ this mess going on on this post!

and what is BLACK music? Music doesn’t really have a color. U all are making valid points, but it’s executed all wrong.. Anyway, I think Amy Winehouse is definitely talented and I like her style.. Her sound is not original, but her concepts are different so just give credit where credit is due. WHO KNOWS what would’ve happened if someone black had’ve come out with this sound. It probably wouldn’t have gotten this big, no, but it would’ve been recognized because no one has tried that motown sound in a long time.

Personally, I feel we are past the stage where we as black people “own” any type of music. Yes, most of the music genres were started by us, and that should always be remembered…but people get way too caught up in who’s singing what music.

I just love music…don’t care what race is singing it or what genre…I just love music.
I can rock a Ciara joint, then flip to Kanye, turn to Amy Winehouse, go to Bjork, come back to Wyclef, and then throw in some Beyonce, A. Keys, Jill Scott, Ledisi, Bilal, Aaliyah, UGK, John Mayer, Joss Stone, Outkast, Goapele, Gaelle, Aya, Cee-Lo, Gnarls Barkley, Lauryn Hill, Wu-Tang, Shakira….the list goes on and on.

Music is a world thing. People take from our culture (i.e. Amy Winehouse, Justin Timberlake, Joss Stone etc). We take from other cultures (i.e. listen to the Indian/Asian influences on Wyclef’s album). Music is a shared experience.

The only thing that really frustrates me in music is the lack of balance. I’m 26yo…and I remember listening to the radio “back in the day” (the 90’s lol). At that time you could hear constant Earth, Wind & Fire, then Aaliyah, then 2Pac, the Isley Brothers, Biggie, Jay-Z,Erykah Badu, Esthero,Brandy, Amel Larrieux, Groove Theory, etc..they kept an even balance between hiphop, old/new school r&b/soul.

Not everyone needs to have a power voice (like Whitney or Mariah), because then you miss out on less-vocally talented artists (but still very much influential …like Janet Jackson). People need to be exposed to more than just Beyonce and Soulja Boy on the radio. I’m so glad I have my ipod, cuz I got tired of hearing the same song 3 or 4 times in the same hour on the radio.

I search for new music all the time. But most people don’t. Their exposure comes from what they see on tv or hear on the radio. It would just be really nice if the radio/tv/record companies would have a more balanced promotion of their artists. But this is not a perfect world…but at least I still ahve my iPod.

Some of you will agree, some of you won’t. But it’s cool. Just my opinion.

@Christelle

Yes, sweetie I can speak Spanish and Korean

Even though Kanye, and Amy got the biggest nominations. i gotta give it up to rihanna who got six nominations they include:

Record of the Year
Song of the Year
Best Dance Recording
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group
Best R&B Song

Good as hell!!

cool,

So now you understand! You might not be as ignorant as i though lol. I am in New-York since 6 months so i think iam doing really good and i wont be fluent before few years! so!

How can rihanna have all these nominations? I mean Song of the year? Which song “Umbrella”? They can’t be serious? Sorry for my ignorance again, but are these nominations based on sales?on public vote? etc..

Well I think everyonre there deserves to be were they are at on the charts rite now (big up to Soulja Boy,I like him he has a unique style)but Alicia is okay but she is gettin too much praise 4 that album,her singles are okay they are not hott or anything,no one is too much of a cliche song 4 me.

I’M VERY EXCITED TO SEE A POST ON AVANT HE’S A VERY TALENTED GUY. THANKS CL!!!!!!!

Congrats to black star power!

Please forgive my ignorance, but I just saw that Rihanna’s “Umbrella” was nominated for Song of the Year & Record of the Year. In music industry terms, what is the difference between a ‘record’ and a ’song’? Can anyone shed some light on this for me…..thanks.

Yall, does Soulja Boy have down syndrome? Or is he slightly retarded? I’m being for real……….I heard that song the other day and I swear he sound like a special ed student….

77 ladybug51105

Song of the year is awarded to the writer or writers of the song only!

Record of the year is awarded to the Producers, Engineers, and Artists!

GOOD FOR aVANT KANYE ALL THE WAY IT’S HIS YEAR

LOL @ #77! Whewww!!!

Go head AK! That CD is fire! Did you’ll haters read the chart news. If not, here it is again….

“Her third studio album, As I Am is also #2 on the albums chart, and broke a record for biggest female debut numbers.”

Congrats Alicia. You deserve it. Lesson Learned is my ish!!

Technically, Song of the Year and Best R&B Song does not count as nominations for Rihanna. They are awarded to the songwriters only. So BIG CONGRATS to the homie Ne-Yo for being nominated for writing Hate That I Love You! I surprised Irreplaceable was not nominated for Song of the Year as well.

Ms. TANNA

I agree Irreplaceable should’ve gotten a nod for Song Of The Year

THEY CANNOT BE SERIOUS!

Soulja Boy is nominated for a Grammy
“Umbrella” is nominated for a songwriting award
“Kiss Kiss” is nominated for something…….and the song sucks
Fergie is nominated for a Grammy
Akon is nominated for a Grammy
T-Pain is nominated for 5 (yes FIVE!) Grammys

These Grammy dummies need to be fired.

The Grammys are SHIT!! Its just a popularity contest, straight up. It lost credibility the momemt Milli Venilli was nominated back in the day.

I’m glad that Amy and Kanye are front runners at the Grammys this year. (Amy because she deserves it and Kanye for the simple fact that this should shut him the hell up.) But I’m pissed that Robin Thicke was snuffed out for a second time in a row.

im happy irreplacable was nominated for record of the year

and the nomination were crap this year !!!!!!!!!!!!

I think Amy deserves what ever kind of nominations she receives, because Back to Black is a bad ass C.D. There isnt one song on there I dont like. Tru home girl is going through some things, but that still doesnt take away her talent. Just like Joy said about Bille Holiday, Billie Holiday is a legend but she had some personal demons. I just hope in Amy case it doesnt end up like that.

#69 Music Man…Everything you said is 100% right. We get way too caught up on what person is singing what type of music. If you are a TRUE music fan you will realize that pretty much everyones music is interwined with a different Genre. It should just be about the MUSIC period! I get laughed at all the time by friends and family for my music selection, but it doesnt even matter. My Cd collection includes Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, Dolly Parton, Amy Winehouse, Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Ray Charles, Aretha. And im 22 years old. All these people hung up on wether a white girl is singing black music or vice versa are not true music fans in my opinion

Ya’ll are sleeping on Avant his last CD was good.
Go Ye and Amy I have both of their CDs great. I am ready for another Ye cd already.
Mad that Robin Thicke wasn’t nominated tho.. he makes good music. I dont do radio just XM when I am home Suite 62 is that ish. Jill Scott cd is fiyah as is AK, musiq and the list can go on….

#79 KB-

Thanks for clearing that up for me

Congrats to Kanye and Amy 8 nods

JAY Z, Timbo, J.T. and T.Pain 5 nods

Neyo and Rihanna 4 nods

I am happy for R&B music

go amy her music deserves it. im confused about alicia keys did her album go number one or what?

Ms. Key and Fantasia got a nod as well. Bee for record of the year.

@93, Yeah Alicia’s album debuted at #1 with the biggest opening for a female artist since Norah Jones in 2004.

amy sounds bette than beyonc alicia rihanna ciara and all and every blck chick on a majoer record label today. period

rihanna’s technically has 4 nods which is why the article didn’t recognize her. song of the year and record of the year are nods the ‘the dream’. sorry

lol

@ 96 WHY DISS 4 OF OUR BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED SISTA BECAUSE YOU ARE HUNG UP ON ON A CRACKHEAD?

#23
I agree. I am SOOOOO glad she got nominated… I think she should have gotten more than 6, though…but she did get nominated in the best categories. I am SO happy about her nominations but it’s always a confusing thing, when good artists like Amy or Corrine Baily Rae get Grammy nods cause you would want them to stand out, to really be honored as excellent BUT with the way award shows are now honoring the most POPULAR as opposed to most ARTISTIC and TALENTED artists, it sorta takes some of the sting out of the win. Like, seriously…Rihanna and Beyonce for record of the year? Seriously? Umbrella and Irreplaceable (which was on an album that won best R&B record LAST year)? It’s lame how these shows are obviously nominating people to get them to show for views.

@ # 9 I AGREE IRREPLACEABLE WAS 2 POP I HATED DAT SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AMY WINEHOUSE MY GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY HOPE SHE WIN AT LEAST 1!!!!!! YEA SHE CRAZY ETC BUT HER LIFE OUTSIDE OF MUSIC IS NOBODYS BUSSINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

89 & 69

I agree, my Ipod is full of stuff from Beyonce 50 cent & Jay-Z to Rascal Flatts & Hall & Oates! Biggie to Bob Marley to phil collins! Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Nirvana, Sting etc! Ppl need to realize that its okay to like multiple genres of music. Theres nothing wrong with it.

Amy is cool but I cant really get past her wildness but she is the best european artist. I hope she wins new artist.

Rihanna got 6 nominations also

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
R. Kelly (featuring Usher) - “Same Girl”
Chaka Khan (featuring Mary J. Blige) - “Disrespectful”
Rihanna (featuring Ne-Yo) - “Hate That I Love You”
Angie Stone (featuring Betty Wright) - “Baby”
T-Pain (featuring Akon) - “Bartender”

Best R&B Song
India.Arie - “Beautiful Flower”
Rihanna (featuring Ne-Yo) - “Hate That I Love You”
Alicia Keys - “No One”
Musiq Soulchild - “Teachme”
Fantasia - “When I See U”

Record Of The Year
Beyoncé - “Irreplaceable”
Foo Fighters - “The Pretender”
Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z - “Umbrella”
Justin Timberlake - “What Goes Around…Comes Around”
Amy Winehouse - “Rehab”

Song Of The Year
Carrie Underwood - “Before He Cheats”
Plain White T’s - “Hey There Delilah”
Corinne Bailey Rae - “Like A Star”
Amy Winehouse - “Rehab”
Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z - “Umbrella”

Best Dance Recording
The Chemical Brothers - “Do It Again”
Justice - “D.A.N.C.E.”
Mika - “Love Today”
Rihanna - “Don’t Stop The Music”
Justin Timberlake - “LoveStoned/I Think She Knows”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Akon Featuring Snoop Dogg - “I Wanna Love You”
Chris Brown & T-Pain - “Kiss, Kiss”
Keyshia Cole Featuring Missy Elliott & Lil’ Kim - “Let It Go”
Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z - “Umbrella”
Kanye West Featuring T-Pain - “Good Life”

beyonce can sing…she just wastes her voice on stupid songs. and please people stop putting our black female singers down, there are lots of good singers out there, but unless you look like beyonce or rihanna noone wants to know. lauryn hill is the best to me..shame she wasted her talent.

#102
It’s not what but WHO you listen to…sure everyone listens to different genres…I mean, you’d have to be living in a box not to BUT you’ve got to pick quality artists. Some people just listen to the most POPULAR artists from each genre, which is lame.

THIS SHIT MAKES ME SOO MAD!! WHERE IS CIARA GRAMMY NOMINATION! DAMN THEY ALWAYS GIVE THE AWARD TO THE BIG NAMES AND TO THE ONES THAT DON’T SELL ANYTHING!

105 lol,

Anybody got a list of grammy nods, I mean in general…Like what categories Amy and Kanye were nominated in. And, how many nods exactly other black artists got.

I’m glad Corrine got nominated again this year but I know they’re only going to right the wrong of last year when she went home empty-handed and “Like a Star” and “Put your records on” were the most uplifting, artistic songs of the year. She’s going to win.

Again, I think Amy should have gotten the most nominations…but maybe she was nominated for everything she could be nominated for,

CHRISTELLE

PUT IT ON THE NIGHTSTAND BOO… YOU JUST CANT TAKE FREAKUM OR IT S SINGER CAN YOU??

BUT EVERYTIME YOU SEE OR HEAR HER NAME YOU ARE THE FIRST ONE TO CLIDK ON IT??

I’M OVER EXPOSED TO PLENTY OF ARTISTS, BUT THE ONES I WISH WOULD GO AWAY,HAVE NEVER GOTTEN A BLOG POST FROM ME…

SO, DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN THAT YOURE A FAN AND CANT HELP YOURSELF BUT TO POST AND MAKE REFERENCE TO HER? DO YOU KNOW THAT REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY TIMES YOU SAY YOU’RE TIRED OF HER, JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY IT, YOU INCREASE HER POPULARITY??

I AIN’T MAD ATCHU.. I’M A FAN AND I LOVE HER WORK, SO KEEP IT UP!!!

SMH…

@24….

THANK THE LORD JESUS THAT SOMEBODY ONE HERE HAS A DAMN BRAIN!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOU EDUCATED COMMENT..

IT’S OBVIOUS THAT YOU BACK YOUR OPINIONS UP WITH FACTS BASED ON THE FACT THAT THIS IS A NEW ERA AND THINGS CHANGE BASED ON THE TIMES.. YOU CAN TAKE OLD STUFF AND REVAMP IT TO MAKE IT CONTEMPORARY..

THESE KIDS NOWADAYS DONT EVEN REALIZE WHAT WHAT WAS “REAL” MUSIC BACK THEN WAS ONCE CALLED CRAP BY THE GENERATION BEFORE THEM….

THE MORE CHRISTELLE OPENS HER MOUTH (OR TYPES WITH HER FINGERS) I’M CONVINCED THAT SHE NEEDS TO STFU!! PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! SPARE US YOUR B.S.!!

what are you talking about?!!

I used to love Bee, yes and i am extremely disappointed! so it comes from an EX-fan, However, she is still the most popular black artist outside, and no one can help it. And as we already say here, she is just a hot topic, nothing more but DEF not a good artist at least to me.

smiley todd

STFU because the more you talk and the more i believe you like artist based on their look. I am not mad at you, your ignorant ass need to get entertained so i understand!
Whatever, I HOPE Amy win and I hope they are going to be more real artist nominated! The name were already quoted before.
If you don’t agree. Fine Juts my opinion!!

The entire Grammy list is here: http://www.grammy.com/GRA...ds/50th_Show/list.aspx#06

Congrats to Fantasia on her 3 nominations
Congrats to Alicia, Tank and Keyshia Cole on their 2 nominations
Congrats to Ledisi on her Best New Artist nomination, who would have thought the Grammy committee even know about a little neo soul singer

CHRISTELLE….

I AM AN OPEN-MINDED, MUSIC LOVING FAN OF A LOT OF DIFFERENT ARTISTS WHO DOESN’T FEEL HE HAS TO TRASH SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK TO MAKE ANOTHER’S LOOK BETTER….

IF YOU DON’T LIKE BEY THAT’S FINE, BUT SHE’S ALREADY BEEN PROVEN TO BE AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTIST BY HER PEERS ACROSS THE BOARD AND ACROSS GENRES, SO YOUR OPINIONS ARE IRRLEVANT IN THE “REAL” WORLD BOO..

YOU THINK YOU’RE ON HERE SCHOOLING PEOPLE WHEN IN ACTUALITY YOU’RE PORTRAYING YOURSELF A CHILD WHO THINKS SHE KNOWS SOMETHING NEW..

BABYGURL, SIT DOWN AND SUCK ON SOMETHING TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT…

MUSIC IS DIFFERENT THINGS FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS..

THERE ARE FOLKS WHO THINK AMY WINEHOUSE’S MUSIC IS TRASH. THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM WRONG, IT JUST MEANS THEY HAVE A PREFERENCE.

IM STICK OF THESE NOBODYS ON HERE ACTING AS IF MUSIC THAT THEY DONT CARE FOR IS WHACK JUST BECAUSE THEY DON’T CARE FOR IT! FUCKING GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

BY THE WAY, POP MUSIC IS NOT A BAD TERM. BLACK PEOPLE REFER TO POP MUSIC AS IF IT’S A CRIME OR SOMETHING. DAMMIT, EVEN KANYE IS POP NOW!! IT’S CALLED CROSSOVER.. IT’S LIKE MOVING UP TO MANAGEMENT AND HAVING TO DEAL WITH EMPLOYEES IN DIFFERNT RACES AND GROUPS, THAN JUST STAYING IN THE MAILROOM ALL YOUR LIFE AND NOT GROWING AND EXPLORING…

LIKE SOME OF YOU ON HERE.. LOL…..SAD.

115

Fine, Taste is SUBJECTIVE.
Plus, I am not schooling nobody, Some people only listen to what radio and big majors give them which is mostly shit! That was all my point!

Good night!

AGAIN, “SHIT” IS RELATIVE TO WHAT THE LISTENER LIKES, AND MAY NOT BE “SHIT” TO SOMEONE ELSE.. HENCE, THE FACT THAT YOU GET ATTACKED LIKE THAT.

CONTINUE TO BE SUBJECTIVE IN YOUR STATEMENTS AND YOU’LL HAVE A MUCH NICER CONVERSATION WITH FOLKS IN THESE BLOGS.

GOODNIGHT TO YOU TOO LITTLE GIRL….

before i left,

I believe i already said in my post that it was my opinion, so thanks for enhancing my point! And of course, i am going to be subjective, why would i talk on behalf anybody else than me? You talk for you right??

Good night for real. You must be the child cause you can’t read!

# leave

AGAIN LITTLE GIRL..

CALLING MUSIC YOU DON’T LIKE “SHIT” IS NOT BEING SUBJECTIVE.

OPEN YOUR GROWN UP DICTIONARY AND LOOK IT UP..

THANKS FOR PROVING TO US THAT YOU REALLY ARE AN BRAINLESS CHILD WHO THINKS SHE KNOWS SOMETHING…

YOUR FUNNY… ISN’T IT PAST YOUR BEDTIME STUPID GIRL?

Allright,

For some reasons, you have a problem because i don’t like beyonce!! that is crazy lol, a lot of people say they don’t like AMY but i never attack them like that.
Get over it!

@69 So very well said. Bravo.

I see you tomorrow, smiley TODD!

Smiley Todd,
hush the fuck up!! Get a life and stop guarding Beyonce’s name lol One of these days I’m going to force you into cardiac arrest…I’m going to just post her name, only her name, ten times in every topic and leave you drowing in the ambiguity of it all: Is it an insult? Is it not? Is she baiting us? Well, even if she is, at least she’s thinking about Bee!

It’s lame…Beyonce is off eating chicken and having oral sex…and I’m off for a workout…you go do something.

If Avant did come back, he might make a big splash!!
I think we sleep on too many talented or potentially talented singers and focus more
on the commercially made singers!!!!
Just a thought

The Grammy’s are always WACK!! AMY who? what the Hell is the people working at the Grammy awards all on CRACK! WILL NOT BE WATCHIN this show…..

I’ve missed Avant, Im s glad he’s coming back! ‘Don’t Take Your Love Away’ is like my number 3 of my top 5 favorite songs!

GEM

I WASN’T TALKING TO YOU, AND THAT WASN’T BASED ON BEYONCE. I USED HER BECAUSE HER NAME WAS BROUGHT UP. THAT WAS A CONVO BASED ON THE WORD “SUBJECTIVE” WHICH OBVIOUSLY CHRISTELLE DOESNT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF CALLING ARTISTS WORK “SHIT”..

NOW YOU CAN STFU AND SUCK MY FAT LONG BLACK d**CK.. YOU SCUMSUCKING WHORE…

COME FOR ME…..

GEM IS A NOSY POKEFACED WHORE
GEM IS A NOSY POKEFACED WHORE
GEM IS A NOSY POKEFACED WHORE
GEM IS A NOSY POKEFACED WHORE

BITCH.

GET UP, PROMISE, LIKE A BOY WERE ALL HITS!!! CIARA DESERVES AT LEAST ONE NOMINATION…SMH

I am sorry, I am not hating but I can’t really get with Winehouse right now because I feel like I would be expoliting her talents over her immediate health concerns and I don’t feel right boosting somene up when she could OD any minute.

I think it was her father that pleaded with her record label to stop promoting her until she gets the real help that she needs. Its great that her music is being recognized but not to the point where it is more important than her health…

@ Smiley Todd, the word ’subjective’ means to give ones opinion. So in that case, by saying Beyonce is shit, she is giving her opinion. Now the word ‘objective’ means that someone is stating a fact which is the complete opposite of subjective…

Kanye West should win every category he’s nomiated in. His album was the most creative album I’ve heard all year. Amy Winehouse is a great singer, but her album is mediocre at best. She is just rehashing the motown sound - been there done that. There is nothing ground breaking or interesting about that at all. Who I would to have seen nomiated it Chrisette Michelle. Not only was her album great, but her voice is incredible. I guess you only get attention for having an amazing voice when your a white girl. We know how that one goes…

Oh and the fact the “No One” is #1 and Alicia Keys album is doing so well, is just further proof of the fact that if you have the right team behind you, you can go far regardless of how much talent you actually have. “As I Am” is one of the most boring albums I’ve heard this year and those tired ass songs like “super woman” and “sure looks good to me” are just examples of predictable her music is. I don’t know what happend, but I prefered her previous albums much more. And I don’t care how many times they paid for “No One” to be shoved down our throats on radio, that is still a crappy song, with the most wrethced vocals I’ve ever heard. I love how she has every fooled…smh

i think what irks people is not Amy’s obvious talent, its that every time a white girl/guy comes out sounding black a big deal gets made about them. the truth is if a black person comes out sounding white they would be a blip… we don’t embrace our own trying to do something different, look at all the Sh*** talked about B even thinking of going blue grass? Think about it.

brap brap to big music

Congratulations to Fantasia on her 3 Grammy Nominations.

Avant’s The Director was the shyt and it was just out a year or two ago…Actually all of his albums have been solid and I have all four..

136,

In a way, you are right, the same thing for Eminem (which i can’t stand!) because a white men come and do some hip hop and every body was like waouh. I never like Eminem and i don’t care if he is white, I don’t like 50 cent too and he is black.

BUT, Amy is known only now in USA, but at the beginning, she is a jazz singer and they are a lot of white jazz singers too. She sounds black but she does not try it. But I never said she was the best singer alive, she is just better that a lot of singers awarded everytime for a music that is not original. Someone told me that she was not original because it was just a music from the 40-50’s. Maybe, but on the same time, BUNCH of artist keep sampling James Brown and soul artist of the 60’s. So it sounds different that someone try something different and unfortunately, the next time someone will do that, he will be accused to try to copy Amy but she did not invent it, but we can give her the credit for having done that. I love Erikah Badu, Jill Scott and a lot of soul artist and they must be recognized for their talent but that does not mean Amy is not talented!, i am just saying that she is going to be recognized (maybe because she is white) but that make an exposure for soul music and maybe in the next years, we are going to have Jaheim, Anthony hamilton and all these artist being recognized for their extremely good work cause they are REAL Artists.
Plus, Amy is coming from UK so she also has something different, she sounds different, just like Roots Manuva or Estelle produced by John Legend. It is also a good thing that she can sell because she definitely does not look good even when she is healthy. Music is just music! So now, Hope we are all going to support our artist. And to be honest, the first time i listen to Amy, I did not know she was white, i really thought she was black! maybe that is why i still cannot believe how a white can do such good black music. But black folk are also good at pop, it is just not my taste!
OH AND EVERY THING SAID BELOW IS MY OPINION !! THANK YOU!

What I don’t get is why Amy wasn’t nominated in any R&B categories, only Pop categories. Does anyone think that the reason for this is because if she won in an R&B category, that people would be upset that a white person won?? Just wondering.

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Amy wasn’t nominated in R&B categories because they’d already nominated her for the “big prizes” and they figured that was enough when adding her to the R&B list meant leaving another person off they might have nominated to show up for ratings. The Grammy listing this year is seriously lame. They’re just trying to make money…Mary’s song “Just fine” got 2 nominations and it was out for like what? two weeks before the deadline? And, Alicia Key’s “No One” got two nominations and it’s silly because we ALL know she’s going to get like 8 next year so why are they being redundant? Same with Beyonce, she got 2 nominations for songs from an album that won best contemp R&B last year. Justin Timberlake got more THIS year than he did last year (but last year he was up for the big prizes). It’s lame and crazy and people are saying Rihanna should win record of the year for “Umbrella” because it was such a huge hit internationally..ummmm…how about no. I’m a Rihanna fan (I think) BUT if she beats Amy’s “Rehab” I am changing the channel. For real. They know they should have given Amy R&B nods. Like I said, I believe they wanted to get more nominees in for ratings.

Oh and as for questions about Amy’s talent…it’s not that she’s a white person doing black music, it’s that she’s a person doing music she’s sincerely invested in, music that is artistic and unique in a sea of lowbrow garbage. Now, she’s a writer…I could go on…don’t want to be a stan but listen to her lyrics and the way she adds meaning with her voice… go to youtube and watch “Tears Dry on Their Own” and tell me you aren’t wholly ensconced by the verse. *sings: “He takes the day, the sun goes down…”*

not verse, the chorus I mean…

Kanye will prolly win like 2 grammys tops! Wino will prolly win the most and will make a DAMN fool of herself on stage or she’ll show up in a bra and jeans all disorientated.
Don’t we love how then a white person comes out with decent R&B music, everyone starts to dog everyother black R&B/Pop artist for not being able to create such good music! Such an ignorant double standard!

AND as a huge Avant fan, I am very happy for him! I don’t know about Capitol’s skills promotiong R&B (Faith never went anywhere with that album) but hopefully he doesn’t change up his style too much cuz I love him just the way he is. And what ever happened to the collabo album he supposed to be doin with my girl Keke Wyatt?? Sitll waitin on that one Avant!

What pisses me off the most is that Soulja Boy’s song got nominated for a grammy. You can’t even take that song seriously. J. holiday should have been nominated, ‘cuz Bed was a HUGE summer hit. Bed was the third song in a decade to have the #1 most increased air plays on the Rhytmic Charts, Urban Chart, & Urban Adult Contemprary chart all at the same time. He’s also the first artist this year to top the R&B with a debut single. I also think J should have been nominated for best new artist.

#147. Even if Amy was black, I STILL would be doggin’ other R&B/Pop artists for not doing anything worth shit.

Amy WOULD have been successful if she was black and wasn’t such a druggie fool. I mean, not AS successful (admit: talented, white, jewish, addict girl with a fuck you attitude, and a bad ass ‘black’ voice), but successful nonetheless. Just listen to her goddamn songs, feel them and do not discard her just because she is white or you think she’s ’stealing music from black people’. That kind of criticism is ignorant at best. Just appreciate music for what music is, why people pull out the race card when it comes to white people making black music? Everyone is inspired by at least someone from the past. So she listened to jazz, doo wop, girlgroups sinatra and shit. Music is universal and when the fuck did you ever hear her say she’s racist and tryna steal from black people? Didn’t she say she was like a black boy in a white girls body? Ignorant ass mofos. I see someone tryna start some race issue like they did with L-Boogie in the past. But too bad Amy is a don’t-give-a-fuck kinda person…

@150: Girl, word! You either like or don’t like an artist. That’s cool. But using arguments like ’she’s copying’ ’she’s stealing’ ’she’s white not black’ are just way too ignorant, cause it doesn’t blow away the fact that she can break your heart with her voice.

I can tell that Amy is sincere when she sings the type of music that she sings, so that makes me appreciate her even more. But there are other white artists out there who seem SO fake and only use ‘black’ music to sell records and gain credibility, and on top of that, they don’t even give credit to the people they copy from. I can’t be down with those type of singers, them types just need to fall back.

Why the HELL wasn’t J.Holiday nominated!

Wow…definitely some passionate fans on this board!

Music is music and it’s great that everyone has an opinion according to their likes and dislikes. I think it’s great that these artists have such loyal fans.

Give Ledisi a listen. She’s flying under the radar here (thank goodness), but she can SANG and has definitely paid her dues to even get the 2 nominations that she got. The whole Grammy “thing” is a crapshoot…based on so much more than music. I just think it’s cool that someone who has paid her dues playing clubs for years, writes her own tunes, and had 2 relatively successful indie albums finally gets the chance to be recognized by her peers on a MUCH larger scale. She was nominated based purely on talent…no big marketing machine, no non-music dramas…simply because she had a dream and stuck to it until (it appears) it finally came true.

I don’t believe in tearing other artists down, because they too have to jump through a number of hoops just to get where they are. I wish them all luck, actually…though I really hope my girl Ledisi wins

Regardless, stay passionate…but BE GOOD to each other.

# 2 thats funny as hell bout amy lololol………. now you know she will be toe up lololol she prolly wont even know her dam name and aint no body gone fuck wiff her lolololol…………………. alicia you go gurrrrrrl…. lil chris brizzy do yo thang baby ursher……………………. kanye my man do you bruh do you lolol

he only got nominated because his mom died.