Gyant Unplugged

Super-producer The Dream is perturbed over his consecutive Grammy nomination snub, and he’s got no problem saying so. In a series of tweets the oddly shaped musical talent vented about his disdain over the politics of the music industry.

If you didn’t know –and don’t be miffed if you don’t. It kind of proves the point behind the Grammy diss– Terius Nash dropped his second studio album, “Love vs Money” earlier this year to rave reviews and meager album sales. An impressive album indeed, however nobody can deny that it, nor its predecessors had garnered enough marketing and promotion to gain such a prestigious nod. Anyway rather then owning up to he and his own labels failure to garner the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences attention, it seems to be far more helpful to the cause for him to express his views on the extremely popular microblogging site — to which nobody from the prestige committee pays attention to.

Anyway here’s his alleged rants:

“Isn’t it funny the best album of 2009 didn’t get a nomination for the second year strait,” he wrote in a string of tweets. “And this ain’t no Kanye sh– … and yes I am bitchin.”

“I had to let ‘em know it wasn’t all to the good. I wasn’t just chillin’. The people that follow me, they really care about the movement. Not just me, there’s a lot of great people doing great things all the time and they get looked over. That’s why I putthe thing about Kanye. I’m not on no Kanye, but when you bust your ass and you know you bust your ass and you don’t get a look, then you’re looking at people funny.”

“I was not expecting it, but I was expecting it, if that makes sense,” he explained. “It was like, ‘Let’s see if some bullsh– happens again.’ I didn’t get nominated last year for Love Hate. Man, I’m black. I’m paranoid, I already expect bullsh– anyway. When I see the names nominated, I’m saying, ‘Are you saying my name don’t belong with the people in this category?’ Come on, man. Somebody isn’t listening.”

“I almost forgot the Producer Of The Year. To not be in that category is crazy,” Dream added. “Nobody released more titles. It’s not even close. It’s not even close, dude. We’re doing albums over here.”

“And it’s the Grammys, man. You look at it from a kid’s standpoint: When you’re growing up, it means so much. Even if it’s not about record sales, singles, the Grammys always pull out the best sh–. I don’t think that happens now.”

“Everybody is saying I should go out and market for it, but I don’t wanna use that power of the strength of my building to win something. I should be able to get nominated or be able to win based off the strength of music – if we’re talking about thebest music. If it’s a popularity contest, let’s just say it’s a popularity contest.”

At the end of the day the grass is always greener on the other side. I know a handful of artists would kill for Dream’s publishing checks over a golden monogram any day. #imjustsayin.

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