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Macklemore Beats Kendrick at the Grammys
Macklemore · 2014
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“He won Best Rap Album. Then he texted Kendrick to apologize, then posted the screenshot.”
2014 Grammys, The Heist beats good kid, m.A.A.d city for Best Rap Album. Macklemore privately texts Kendrick that he was robbed, then posts the screenshot publicly. The Recording Academy's most embarrassing rap-category result of the 2010s — a watershed in the long argument about who gets to define what hip-hop is.
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