Kendrick Lamar 'Not Like Us' Grammy Nod Iffy, Says 'New Rory & MAL's' Rory

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Next year's Grammy Awards is stacked with competition from rappers of all shapes and sizes but hip hop podcaster/producer Rory Farrell thinks the running favorite is questionable -- Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us"!!!

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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.

00:03Freak-offs.

00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.

00:07Mm-hmm.

00:08It was a rapper that we all know.

00:11Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.

00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.

00:17All right, man.

00:18Look, you talk about this ad nauseum all day.

00:22What do you think about the current, you know, nominees for the Grammys?

00:27As far as hip-hop goes, does this represent the culture as currently constituted?

00:32Because it's got a lot of people talking about it.

00:34I mean, the Grammys could never define the culture or give it credence,

00:38but I'd love to see that Doji's nominated.

00:41A lot of people that are talented that are nominated.

00:43Yeah.

00:44But that doesn't define if you're a good artist or not.

00:46That's true. That's true.

00:47I know you're a cold guy, you know, cold guy on there.

00:50But there's people saying, look, he deleted...

00:52Don't tell them all.

00:54But he deleted the best track on My Delete Later.

00:57No, that wasn't the best track.

00:59And I'm not even trying to take a shot at Cole for deleting it.

01:01But that project was great.

01:02I didn't see it getting nominated, but I mean, Cole deserves it.

01:06The same way Nas got a Grammy 30 years later.

01:09Like, sometimes you just owed something.

01:11Right, right. Okay.

01:12Even if people disagree with Cole because it wasn't really an album.

01:14Yeah.

01:15Cole deserves it.

01:16I'm with you on Doji.

01:17Like, she...

01:18Yeah.

01:19That actually, like, kind of smells like right on the money, you know?

01:22Absolutely.

01:23She deserves it. Definitely deserves it.

01:24And then you got Eminem.

01:26Eminem always sweeps, you know?

01:28Yeah, but I mean, he said it in the White America song.

01:31What?

01:32Y'all should know by now.

01:33Listen to White America.

01:35Em told us why he does that every time. It's cool.

01:37Interesting. Interesting.

01:38Well, look, look, last thing, you know,

01:40obviously there's a lot to say about Kendrick getting these, you know,

01:44Not Like Us all over the board.

01:47Do you feel like, you know, the Grammys,

01:51Drake's always kind of had it out with them, you know?

01:55Is it trolling a little bit, you know?

01:58I mean, not that the voting body is thinking like that.

02:02I don't know if it's trolling per se.

02:04By the metric standard, yes, of course, Not Like Us should be there.

02:07Yeah.

02:08Now, the content in which is in that song is another debate.

02:12Right.

02:13And that's something I think the Grammys may have to wear.

02:16But that'll be a conversation I think we have in like a decade.

02:19Like, damn, I don't know if the content of that song

02:22is worthy to give actual awards to.

02:25Right. Yeah.

02:27That's just me.

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