The Grammy Awards has finally decided to tweak some outdated rules and categories, including renaming the Best Urban Contemporary Album category to Best Progressive RB Album.
Rolling Stone reports that the revamped category will “include the more progressive elements of RB and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music.
This should make artists like Tyler the Creator offer a slow hand clap since he had mixed feelings about taking home the Best Rap Album Grammy for his genre-bending IGOR.
“It sucks that whenever we—and I mean guys that look like me—do anything that’s genre-bending they always put it in a rap or urban category,” Tyler said to reporters after his first Grammy win.
Recently, many hip-hop artists declined to perform for the awards show because they largely didn’t win in the genre-blended categories such as Best New Artist and Best Album.
