Handicapping The Hip Hop Grammy Awards

The Grammys are tonight and five people across America will care about the outcome of the awards, but nonetheless I am here to give my input on who/what will win and who/what should win in the hip hoppin music category.

Best Rap Solo Performance
Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)...Jay-Z
A Milli...Lil Wayne
Paris, Tokyo...Lupe Fiasco
N.i.*.*.e.r. (The Slave And The Master)...Nas
Sexual Eruption...Snoop Dogg
Will Win- A Milli. The Grammys start off padding their credibility by awarding a song that repeats three syllables for 3:42, and in which Wayne likens himself to a venereal disease.
Should Win- Roc Boys. Those horns get me evertime.

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
Royal Flush...Big Boi Featuring Raekwon And Andre 3000
Swagga Like Us...Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne
Mr. Carter...Lil Wayne Featuring Jay-Z
Wish You Would...Ludacris Featuring T.I.
Put On...Young Jeezy Featuring Kanye West
Will Win- Swagga Like Us. It's Jay, T.I., Kanye, and Wayne on a track, obviously it's good. Oh wait...
Should Win- Royal Flush beats out Put on by a smidgen in my book. 3k's verse is heatrocks.

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
American Boy...Estelle Featuring Kanye West
Low...Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain
Green Light...John Legend & Andre 3000
Got Money...Lil Wayne Featuring T-Pain
Superstar...Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos
Will Win- American Boy. Kanye has likely threatened many voters that if they don't give him at least one that he'll pull another one of these.
Should Win- Green Light. I'm just style freein...

Best Rap Song
Lollipop...D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer & R. Zamor, songwriters (Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major)
Low...Tramar Dillard, M. Humphrey, Faheem Najm, Korey Roberson & Howard Simmons, songwriters (Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain)
Sexual Eruption...Calvin Broadus, S. Lovejoy & D. Stewart, songwriters (Snoop Dogg)
Superstar...Lupe Fiasco & Soundtrakk, songwriters (Lupe Fiasco Featuring Matthew Santos)
Swagga Like Us...Jeff Bhaskev, D. Carter, S. Carter, Clifford Harris, Plain Pat & Kanye West, songwriters (M. Arulpragasam, N. Headon, M. Jones, J. Mellor, T. Pentz & P. Simonon, songwriters) (Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West & Lil Wayne)
Will Win- Lollipop. This was originally supposed to be a Danity Kane song and if they had released it, it would have been another forgotten trash pop song, but since Wayne put it out it's auto tune genius.
Should Win- Superstar. Lupe broke into the mainstream with this song and deserves it.

Best Rap Album
American Gangster...Jay-Z
Tha Carter III...Lil Wayne
The Cool...Lupe Fiasco
Untitled...Nas
Paper Trail...T.I.
Will Win- Tha Carter III. Is this even a question? I don't have a problem with this album winning cause it is pretty good and is probably the biggest album of the past 5 years period.
Should Win- The Cool. While Paper Trail might be my favorite album of this group that doesn't mean its the best. The Cool barely edges out American Gangster. If Jay had used this version of Party Life maybe it would have been a different story.