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In its personal phrases, the Recording Academy is “a visionary group of music professionals and label executives.” Unfortunately, as is made painfully apparent by this uninventive Grammy S&O/Rap Nominees 2001 assortment, the Academy’s collective eyesight is myopic. Given that label execs like Lyor Cohen (Def Jam) and Tommy Mottola (Sony) sit on the Recording Academy’s government council, it’s no marvel that the record of nominees reads like an previous boys’ community patting itself on the again. Included listed here are vocabulary-challenged canine fanatic DMX, growing older multimillionaire/prototypical gangsta Dr. Dre, and would-be seductor J. Kelly. In the rap area, the Academy ignores a lot of the perfect work of 2000, reminiscent of independently launched, succulent albums by the likes of Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, Blackalicious, and Zion I, and the dangerous main label work of rhyme genius Ghostface Killah. Eminem, a white boy’s moist dream and the Grammy’s bid for controversy, figures prominently within the combine, nevertheless. On the S&B aspect of issues (the place the 2000 pickings have been slimmer), the one actually noteworthy albums of the yr, A’Angelo’s Voodoo and Jill Scott’s Who Is Jill Scott, get the nod–and so do gaudy panty-raider Sisqo and profession tearjerker Toni Braxton. Can’t look forward to the telecast. –Lizz Mendez Berry
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