Jay Z Makes Grammy Awards History
Jay Z Makes Grammy Awards History. There is a massive euphoria in Brooklyn after the people received some good news about one of their iconic hip hop artist. Without any doubt, Jay Z has been one of the most consistency US hip hop artists of all time. The big pimping rapper has dropped some notable hit songs in his hip hop career making him to garner quite a number of awards along the way.
When the Grammy Awards nominees for 2022 were unveiled on Tuesday, the rapper became the history maker. The 51-year-old rapper received two new nominations in the best rap song genre for Jail, which he co-wrote with Kanye West, Bath Salts, along with Nas and DMX. His total Grammy nominations now stand at 83, making him the most nominated artist in Grammy history. He now has more than 80 credits, surpassing the veteran producer Quincy Jones.
Jay Z has lately received a slew of awards, including induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his efforts to hip hop. In his speech at the ceremony, the rapper said; “I would watch these guys, and you know they had big rope chains, and they wore leather, and sometimes even the red-black-green medallions, and whatever they wore, everybody would wear the next day.”
“And I was like, “That’s what I want to do. I want to be like those guys”. And so I set out on my journey, writing at my table—shout out to Dr. Gloria Carter in the house, she bought me the green notebook,’ he said referring to his mother who was watching from the audience. “We was like we gonna create our own company, you know? That’s hip hop. And we created this company called Roc-A-Fella Records.”
Nonetheless, it looks the success runs within the family, last year’s Grammys saw his wife, Beyoncé, make history by becoming the most-nominated woman and most-awarded vocalist in the show’s history.
