Drake has submitted Her Loss, 2022 his joint album with 21 Savage, for Grammy consideration. Additionally, his songs “Rich Flex” and “Spin Bout U” are up for consideration.
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Drake submitted Her Loss for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album. “Rich Flex” is in consideration for both Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Additionally, “Spin Bout U” could be nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance, according to Billboard.
Those aren’t the only Grammy nods Drake may get, though. He appears on Travis Scott’s “Meltdown” and Young Thug’s “Oh U Want.” The artists have submitted both songs for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
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Balloting for first-round voting for the upcoming Grammy Awards opened yesterday. The Recording Academy will announce the nominees on November 10.
Her Loss dropped in November 2022. That puts it well within the eligibility window for the upcoming Grammy Awards. That window eligibility term ran from October 1, 2022, and September 15, 2023. Unfortunately For All the Dogs missed the eligibility window by a couple of weeks with its October 6 release date. However, it will be eligible for the next ballot if Drake chooses to submit it.
Drake currently has five Grammys in his trophy case including Best Rap Album for Take Care. However, he pulled his album Certified Lover Boy and the song “Way 2 Sexy” from Grammy consideration in 2022. Additionally, he refrained from submitting Honestly, Nevermind and its singles for consideration.
Billboard reports that Drake criticized the Grammy Awards in 2020. The criticism came after Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. The Weeknd) received no nominations for After Hours. “I think we should stop allowing ourselves to be shocked every year by the disconnect between impactful music and these awards,” he said on Instagram. Instead, the “Hotline Bling” singer said artists should “accept that what once was the highest form of recognition may no longer matter to the artists that exist now and the ones that come after.”
Additionally, he likened the awards show to “a relative you keep expecting to fix up but they just won’t change their ways.”
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