Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Yes, this is the headquarters of the Grammy Organizing Committee.

The Grammy Awards is a music award founded by the American Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1958.

As one of the highest awards in the music category, the Grammy Awards, along with the Academy Awards for films, the Emmy Awards for television, and the Tony Awards for drama are collectively known as the "Four Major American Performing Arts Awards."

The Grammy Awards cover music genres such as pop, rock, rhythm and blues (R&B), rap, country, gospel, jazz, Latin, and classical, and the award winners are decided by professional voting.

The most important awards are the four general (comprehensive) awards including: Album of the Year Award, Production of the Year Award, Song of the Year Award and Best Newcomer Award.

At the same time, the Grammy Awards has a complex and rigorous voting system. The organizers invite more than 150 industry insiders to participate in the voting every year. The voting is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the judges vote to select the "Annual Grand Prize" (General Field) and five nominees for another 30 sub-awards (each judge can participate in the voting for 9 sub-awards in this stage). In the second stage, the judges select the annual grand prize and the winners of each sub-award from the nominees (each judge can participate in the voting for 8 sub-awards in this stage).

For a long time, the ultimate dream of all musicians, whether in America or around the world, is to be on the Grammy stage.

Just like the Oscars to filmmakers, it is the highest award and the highest hall of honor.

However, this award has been on a downward trend in recent years.

But in reality?

Anyone who really knows the situation knows that this is not because of the Grammys, but because of the American music scene.

The American music scene is on the decline, and music creation is becoming increasingly homogenized.

That is, the things everyone is doing are becoming more and more similar, especially after the rise of short video fast food culture.

The patience of the American people is rapidly declining, and it is difficult for them to have the patience and concentration to appreciate complex things.

This has resulted in the returns for making good music and content becoming increasingly lower, and people no longer want to do so.

When the effort you put in is half of the original, or even less, but the rewards are several times greater.

If it were you, what would you choose?

This is a very realistic thing.

Not to mention that rap music is one of the hardest hit areas.

In essence, rap music itself is something that is born from the grassroots.

The origins of rap can be traced back to 1959, when New York officials decided to build a highway across the Bronx, where immigrants lived.

This huge project will bring inconvenience and even chaos to the residents here for a long time, so some economically well-off families in the Bronx, which is not rich to begin with, decided to move.

It wasn't until 1968 that New York City officials once again decided to build a large number of cooperative apartments on the northern edge of the Bronx, and some other able-bodied families moved into these apartments.

In less than a decade, the Bronx turned into a poor and dilapidated slum, and its former prosperity was gradually replaced by crime, drugs and unemployment.

The year is 1973. Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant living on the streets of the West Side of the Bronx, often hosts "music parties" at home, where he often plays jazz, R&B, and funk.

Ska and soul music, compared with the disco that was popular in America at the same time, Herc's music was closer to the real life of people in the slums, and his parties became bigger and bigger.

Finally, Herc decided to move the party outdoors and invented the unique method of using two record players to repeatedly play the wonderful breaks from the same record, so that the party atmosphere was always at a climax. From then on, DJ Kool Herc's parties became famous in the Bronx.

Later, this technology was improved and innovated by Grandmaster Flash, who created technologies such as scratching and quick mixing, and added devices such as joysticks and equalizers, making DJ an official science. As DJ technology became more and more complicated, many DJs had no time to communicate with the audience, so MCs who were specifically responsible for livening up the atmosphere emerged.

Until an MC tried to speak a rhyming phrase in a steady and rhythmic manner over the scratching rhythm played by a CD player.

Rap music was born. In essence, the birth of this kind of music has only one nature: party music, rock.

It's that simple.

Also because of its origins in grassroots music, this has led to the fact that, despite the development of time, this kind of music has become mainstream music today, and has developed many genres and styles. The production is becoming more and more sophisticated and more and more refined.

But it is inevitable that it still has a large number of underground elements.

Money, cars, women, and fans, selling fans.

It has always been an eternal topic and subject that rap music cannot avoid.

It was still okay in the early years. There were still some rappers in the old school who insisted on creating content with high ideological content, rather than just rocking for the sake of rocking. There were also some rappers who made thoughtful music.

The Grammy Awards have also been awarding these works to encourage the emergence of such works.

This is also very consistent with their positioning as an award.

Everything changed when trap music began to flourish in this land.

Trap is a pure gangster music. Its lyrics and tone are much more straightforward than traditional old school gangster rap.

They are even undisguised in their bravery and brutality, and many rappers will even write their own criminal experiences and processes in the lyrics.

Although this did help the federal government solve many cases, after all, it was equivalent to recording a confession.

But what is undeniable is that this kind of music does have a huge negative impact on teenagers.

So in fact, the federal level is also very troubled by this.

But it is not so easy to touch people with black skin. Can you just do it if you want?
Therefore, these things are destined to become a chronic problem, and there are not many ways to manage them.

Until recent years, serious and high-level rap works have become less and less, and trap music is rampant and ranked high on the Billboard.

Until later on, no one was making these contents anymore.

Even the few remaining singers who still insist on producing this kind of content have been labeled as mentally ill, and their works have been wildly insulted by the new hip-hop fans whose brains have been influenced by gang trap.

As a result, the big star no longer releases new albums.

What can they do? Do they want to choose these works?
No, they didn't even have a choice.

They could only choose these works.

So it’s not that the Grammys are no longer good or that the judging standards have been lowered, but that there are simply no suitable people to judge them by.

This time, a suitable song finally appeared.

They made the decision immediately.

It was not until Xia Yuan received the invitation letter in China that a mysterious smile appeared on his face.

As the saying goes, "I didn't warn you." (End of this chapter)