Peep The @RecordingAcad 2018 Grammy Nominees

It's Grammy season and as we prepare ourselves to stay up watching on this side when the awards air on the 28th of January, the nominations list has just been dropped so long. Needless to say, hip hop is looking well represented in the nominees list. Let's have a look at who got nods for the 60th annual ceremony. Any predictions where hip hop is involved? 

Record Of The Year:
Redbone — Childish Gambino
Despacito — Luis Fonsi x Daddy Yankee ft Justin Bieber
The Story Of O.J. — JAY-Z
HUMBLE. — Kendrick Lamar
24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Album Of The Year:
Awaken, My Love! — Childish Gambino
4:44 — JAY-Z
DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar
Melodrama — Lorde
24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Song Of The Year:
Despacito — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi x Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi x Daddy Yankee ft Justin Bieber)
4:44 — Shawn Carter x Dion Wilson, songwriters (JAY-Z)
Issues — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels x Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels)
1-800-273-8255 — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury, Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic ft Alessia Cara x Khalid)
That's What I Like — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus x Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist:
Alessia Cara
Khalid
Lil Uzi Vert
Julia Michaels
SZA

Best Pop Solo Performance:
Love So Soft — Kelly Clarkson
Praying — Kesha
Million Reasons — Lady Gaga
What About Us — P!nk
Shape Of You — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
Something Just Like This ­— The Chainsmokers x Coldplay
Despacito — Luis Fonsi x Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber
Thunder — Imagine Dragons
Feel It Still — Portugal. The Man
Stay — Zedd x Alessia Cara

Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Migration — Bonobo
3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk
Mura Masa — Mura Masa
A Moment Apart — Odesza
What Now — Sylvan Esso

Best Rock Album
Emperor Of Sand - Mastodon
Hardwired...To Self-Destruct - Metallica
The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Nothing More
Villains - Queens Of The Stone Age
A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs

Best Rock Performance:
You Want It Darker — Leonard Cohen
The Promise — Chris Cornell
Run — Foo Fighters
No Good — Kaleo
Go To War — Nothing More

Best Alternative Music Album
Everything Now - Arcade Fire
Humanz - Gorillaz
American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
Pure Comedy - Father John Misty
Sleep Well Beast - The National 

Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Free 6lack — 6lack
Awaken, My Love! — Childish Gambino
American Teen — Khalid
Ctrl — SZA
Starboy — The Weeknd

Best Rap Album:
4:44 — JAY-Z
DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar
Culture — Migos
Laila's Wisdom — Rapsody
Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator

Best Country Album
Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney
Heart Break — Lady Antebellum
The Breaker — Little Big Town
Life Changes — Thomas Rhett
From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton

Best Americana Album
Southern Blood — Gregg Allman
Shine On Rainy Day — Brent Cobb
Beast Epic — Iron x Wine
The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
Brand New Day — The Mavericks

Best Comedy Album
The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle
Cinco — Jim Gaffigan
Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld
A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman
What Now? — Kevin Hart

Best Song Written For Visual Media
City Of Stars — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek x Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling x Emma Stone), Track from La La Land
How Far I'll Go — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli'i Cravalho), Track from Moana: The Songs
I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew x Taylor Swift, songwriters (ZAYN x Taylor Swift), Track from Fifty Shades Darker
Never Give Up — Sia Furler x Gregg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia), Track from Lion
Stand Up For Something — Common x Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common), Track from Marshall

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Calvin Harris
No I.D.
Greg Kurstin
Blake Mills
The Stereotypes