10 Huge Artists Who Got Snubbed At The Grammys
9. Tupac Shakur
The year 1991 really feels a transitional year for most of popular music. Around the same time that grunge was starting to become the mainstay of pretty much every rock fan under the sun, you also had the soft rock crowd getting a little more introspective and the rap scene about to get a lot closer to street level. So with all that happening, how the hell did the Best New Artist end up going to Marc Cohn?
Y'all remember Marc Cohn, right? The singer songwriter set who had the breakout hit Walking in Memphis? That's the kind of song that the Grammys just eat up, which makes sense that he was picked over people like Color Me Badd around the same time. While it would seem criminal that someone like Pearl Jam didn't walk away with the Best New Artist category, it hurts that much more to see Tupac walk away with nothing.
Though he may have seemed like just a protoge at the time, Mr. Shakur was on the cusp of becoming one of the greatest rappers to ever live, and it looked like things were about to explode around this time. Even though the Grammys might be known to go for more of the safe picks, your priorities are definitely skewed when Kendrick Lamar releases an album in Pac's shadow with To Pimp a Butterfly and you give him the Grammy instead.