But that did not prevent Jay-Z from taking three for singles, including best rap song and best rap/sung collaboration for "Run This Town," and best rap solo performance for "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)." For all the power of youth, the Grammys still gave pride of place to older legends.
With his clever and tart guest verses, Mr. West also enlivens the pair of songs he raps on, "Hate" and "Run This Town".
Staying in the Running The rap artist and actor ICE-T, who plays a detective on "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," says he is "ab-fabulous".
It also runs The Rap Sheet Workshop, in which job seekers with a criminal record are taught how to discuss their past in a frank but productive way.
While this quartet of badassness revealed that there probably wouldn't be a Black Hippy album (despite being collectively signed to Top Dawg Entertainment), individually Black Hippy ran the Rap game.
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He joined Warner in 2004, where he helped expand the company's hip-hop roster on the Asylum imprint and, more recently, through a deal with Maybach Music, the label run by the rap star Rick Ross.
There's a kid who runs Rap Genius France, the kid who runs Rap Genius Deutschland, the kid who runs Rap Genius Iran, and then we have hundreds of people who put it as their job on Facebook... 500,000 people have written explanations and 15 million people a month are reading it, so you know it's like a Ponzi scheme.
Growing up in a gritty neighbourhood, he received a limited formal education but found his curiosity piqued by a neighbour, Lawrence Goodman, who ran a rap label.
