At least Macklemore had the good sense to feel bad about the whole thing.ДЄt the 2015 Grammys, Eminem himself took an award away from more deserving black performers, but it was for best rap/sung collaboration, winning for The Monster with Rihanna over Tuesday (ILoveMakonnen featuring Drake) and Bound 2 (Kanye featuring Charlie Wilson). On the subject of Macklemore, the Seattle rapperвЂ™s victory over Kendrick Lamar last year was seen as an epic calamity вЂ“ not just because Lamar is black, but because his 2012 album Good Kid, Maad City was a once-in-a-generation work.

From Miley to Iggy to Macklemore, the concept of black appropriation came to the surface again this year, everywhere from Azealia BanksвЂ™s Twitter feed to glossy magazine think pieces. Not to mention that, at a time when the sound of pop music is very black, the artists performing those sounds, as least the most popular ones, are very likely to be white. As Kris Ex wrote for Complex, opening the show with AC/DC was like вЂњthe planting of a great, Viagra-stiff, Dad Rock flag emblazoned with the words вЂFuck YouвЂ™ via arthritic handsвЂќ.

ItвЂ™s because, in a subpar category, EminemвЂ™s latest served as the bulwark against Iggy AzaleaвЂ™s The New Classic вЂ“ a victory that would have been, in the opinion of most tastemakers, a catastrophe of Milli Vanilli proportions. ItвЂ™s not because his winning work, The Marshall Mathers 2 LP, was so amazing, because it wasnвЂ™t. Amid the latest Kanye West saga вЂ“ his demand that Beck renounce his Grammy for best album in favor of BeyoncГ© вЂ“ the winner of this yearвЂ™s Grammy for best rap album, Eminem, hasnвЂ™t been talked about much.

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