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the REAL reasons why Nicki Minaj has never won a Grammy Award in her 11 year long career - a thread
Nicki Minaj has earned her first Grammy nomination at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, the self proclaimed Queen of Rap was nominated for the ‘Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group’ category for Ludacris his song ‘My Chick Bad’ as a featured artist
The song was moderately succesful. Peaking at #11 on the Hot 100 despite it’s popularized music video, the song only got moderate acclaim. It eventually lost to Jay-Z’s & Swiss Beatz smash hit song ‘On to the next one’ which received widespead acclaim. It’s a fair loss for Minaj
Nicki’s scored her first big 4 category award a year later for ‘Best New Artist’. She eventually lost to the highly acclaimed and multi talented indie band Bon Iver. Garbz tend to call this loss for Nicki Minaj a snub but I’ll explain to you why it isn’t
Bon Iver released their universally acclaimed self titled studio album in 2011, with many music publications placing the album atop their year end lists. The album opened at #2 on the Billboard 200 and was a commercial success. The album also scored a 88 metacritc score...
which indicated ‘universal acclaim’. Bon Iver won their Best New Artist award fairly based on the statistics. Nicki on the other hand had a commercially huge era but simply couldnt compete with band artistically which resulted in a fair loss for the rapper.
For her Pink Friday era nominations, Nicki scored an additional two nominations in the rap categories. However Kanye West rightfully beat all of Nicki’s nominations out with his legendary fifth studio album ‘MBDTF’ which is often called named as one of the best albums ever.
I think we can all agree that Nicki had zero chances on beating Kanye West in any category, especially for a legendary album as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which has a 94 metacritic score and is the highest acclaimed album of the past decade. Nicki rightfully lost.
Moving all the way up to 2015, Nicki’s next nomination would be in the pop field for her poor contribution on Jessie J’s hit song ‘Bang Bang’ the song received mixed responses from critics and lost to Christina Aguileira’s acclaimed hit ‘Say Something’ Again a fair loss for Minaj
Nicki also scored a nomination for her #2 single ‘Anaconda’ in the Rap Song category. This is mostly because of a lack of rap singles being released in 2014 which resulted in the horrid song receiving a nod. Nicki lost to Kendrick Lamar, which is understandable since he is K-Dot.
Moving all the way up to the 58th Annual Grammys (still 0 wins in sight) Nicki scored a surprising 3 nominations for her third studio album ‘The PinkPrint’.
The album opened at #2 and only received mediocre to positive reviews with a overall metacritic score of 70. The album also performed mediocre commercially only producing one top 10 hit.
Nicki, once again, lost all her nominations to Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick released his third studio album ‘TPAB’ which is regarded to as one of the best rap albums of all time. He scored a well deserved 11 nominations that night including ‘Album of the Year’.
Once again, Nicki had no realistic chance of beating out Kendrick Lamar’s classic To Pimp A Butterfly in any of the categories which yet again, resulted in a fair loss for Minaj. Kendrick’s album has a 96 score on Metacritic and is named as one of the best rap albums ever.
This concludes all of Nicki Minaj’s Grammy nominations to date. Her fandom tries to make excuses for Nicki never having received a Grammy award saying she is ‘blackballed’ when in reality she couldnt win due to the harsh competition of better albums and songs winning instead.
In reality we all know that albums like Watch the Throne, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy & To Pimp a Butterly (albums Nicki lost to) have contributed more to Hiphop than Nicki ever could. Saying Pink Friday era deserved a Grammy over Kanye in 2010 IS A LIE.
I want to thank the @RecordingAcad for making the wise choice of letting talent win first and foremost. 
FYC Nicki stands a chance of winning an embarrasing Latin Grammy for her poor contribution on Karol G’s succesful hit song Tusa. Will this be her first win Garbz?
FYC Nicki stands a chance of winning an embarrasing Latin Grammy for her poor contribution on Karol G’s succesful hit song Tusa. Will this be her first win Garbz?
