So far… So good for Fox’s new series “Empire”… The pilot… which aired last week… got things going with quite a bit of drama… Almost too much for one episode… But like most viewers… I’ll take it… Like a drug… make you come back for more… And by the way… that pilot caught the attention of 9.8 million viewers… Look… Cookie is bringing it and T. Howard as “Lucious” is literally sick in the head… Let’s see how this Hip Hop drama continues to unfold… The writers have to be careful cause they put a lot of story lines on the table in two episodes… Hope it makes sense all the way through…

50 Cent gotta tweet Taraji and give her some props for this… It’s not “Power”… but it’s interesting…

 

Best Rap Performance

3005
Childish Gambino

Track from: Because The Internet
Label: Glassnote

0 To 100 / The Catch Up
Drake

Label: Cash Money/Young Money

Rap God
Eminem

Track from: The Marshall Mathers LP2
Label: Aftermath

I
Kendrick Lamar

Label: Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records

All I Need Is You
Lecrae

Label: Reach Records

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Blak Majik

Common Featuring Jhené Aiko

Track from: Nobody’s Smiling

Label: Def Jam Recordings

The Monster

Eminem Featuring Rihanna

Track from: The Marshall Mathers LP2

Label: Aftermath

Tuesday

I Love Makonnen Featuring Drake

Label: OVO/Warner Bros.

Studio

Schoolboy Q Featuring BJ The Chicago Kid

Track from: Oxymoron

Label: Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records

Bound 2

Kanye West & Charlie Wilson

Track from: Yeezus

Label: Def Jam Recordings

Best Rap Song

Anaconda

Ernest Clark, Jamal Jones, Onika Maraj, Marcos Palacios & J. Solone-Myvett, songwriters (Nicki Minaj)

Label: Cash Money/Young Money

Bound 2

Mike Dean, Noah Goldstein, Malik Jones, Che Pope, Elon Rutberg, Sakiya Sandifer, John Stephens, Kanye West, Charlie Wilson, Ernest Wilson & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West & Charlie Wilson)

Track from: Yeezus

Label: Def Jam Recordings; Publishers: Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./John Legend Publishing admin. by BMG Chrysalis/Monarchy Music/Abou Thiam Publishing/Universal Publishing/Jabriel Iz Myne/Let The Story Begin Music Publishing/Chrysalis Songs/EMI Blackwood Music obo Papa George Publishing/Noah Goldstein Music/Reach Music Publishing/Dust Index/Gambi Music, Inc./Songs of Universal, Inc.

I

Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)

Label: Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records

We Dem Boyz

Maurice Brown, Kemion Cooks, N. Fisher & C. Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa)

Track from: Blacc Hollywood

Label: Rostrum/Atlantic; Publishers; Wiz Khalifa Publishing admin. by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./IFYOUNEEDMEDONTLEAVEME

0 To 100 / The Catch Up

Feeney, Aubrey Graham, A. Hernandez, P. Jefferies, M. Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters ( Drake)

Label: Cash Money/Young Money

Best Rap Album

The New Classic

Iggy Azalea

Label: Def Jam Recordings

Because The Internet

Childish Gambino

Label: Glassnote

Nobody’s Smiling

Common

Label: Def Jam Recordings

The Marshall Mathers LP2

Eminem

Label: Aftermath

Oxymoron

Schoolboy Q

Label: Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records

Blacc Hollywood

Wiz Khalifa

Label: Rostrum/Atlantic