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The Grammys have never been for Black Artists. Here are 15 stars that never won.

Listen to Kanye West,as he slams the Grammys for lack of hip-hop inclusion on E

But my music industry sources confirm that there’s a very real concerted effort to “whiten” the face of “Urban” music…and it’s only a matter of time before the truth is revealed.

After decades of watching Rap and R&B music suffocate itself under the tightening grip of narrow-minded content, the 2013 Billboard charts and 2014 Grammy Awards have proven that the Rap and R&B landscape seems to be taking a final fatal turn towards gentrification.

For a while now, the acceptance of homosexuality as the norm, has been pushed in the media. Recently on The GRAMMY’S, numerous same sex couples were married on stage as Macklemore’s “Same Love” song played as the anthem.

While I, and others like myself, were upset at the obvious snubbing of black artists and music, I thought to myself, where are the black artists’ outrage?

It took a 17 year-old girl from New Zealand to bring attention to a problem that’s been plaguing rap music for years while a 1000 rappers who have been trying to do the very same thing for the last two decades have been overlooked, silenced, and even mocked for being relics of a bygone Hip Hop era.

Payola is the one subject radio and record execs have a problem talking about.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z have become a pop and Hip Hop icons, to the extent both seem untouchable, in likes of “made” mafia figures. Seemingly, they have been given the general public’s permission to say and do whatever they like, without consequence. This notion, perhaps, has been reflected in the couple’s hubris as of late.

I see so many people lost who really try to pretend
But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend
When I take a step to the mic is hiphop closer to the end?