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Kanye West not impressed by his 2 GRAMMY nominations

Hip-hop superstar Kanye West has admitted that being nominated twice at the 2014 GRAMMYs isn't enough because he missed out on the top honour of being up for Best Album in favour of being lumped into the rap category.

He halted his recent concert in Phoenix, Arizona to tell the crowd that the two nominations he has been given for next year's ceremony don't mean anything to him because of the categories they're in:

"I'm 36-years old and I have 21 GRAMMYs. That's the most GRAMMYs of any 36 year old. Out of all of those 21 GRAMMYs, I've never won a GRAMMYs against a white artist. So when the GRAMMYs nominations come out, and 'Yeezus' is the top one or two albums on every single list (poll of the year), but only gets two nominations from the GRAMMYs, what are they trying to say? Do they think that I wouldn't notice?"

"Do they think that, someway, that I don't have the power to completely diminish all of their credibility at this moment? When you see me talking about what people are doing when I say 'marginalised', when I say 'boxed in', when I say 'hold back' (sic), when I say 'people are afraid of the truth', that's one example right there in front of you."

He went onto add that being up for Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song (for 'New Slaves') doesn't matter to him at this point because he missed out on the Best Album category and was instead put into the rap genre: "People come to me and congratulate me on those two nominations. F**k those nominations!"

 

 

Watch West's music video for 'Bound 2' here: