The upcoming awards ceremony has shown a lot of love for rap, but only commercial rap as a number of commendable, yet still-underground hip-hop artists were overlooked for a nomination. Earl Sweatshirt's debut album Doris has won more than double the amount of praise Jay-Z's average-at-best Magna Carta...Holy Grail, yet it is the elder statesman who has been shown recognition from the established music committee. What's more, even though Kendrick Lamar had already begun to establish himself as an artist before the release of his exceptional Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - which came out in 2012 - he is still up for the Newcomer award, whilst break through artists like Chance the Rapper and Earl remain in the shadows.

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Despite being one of the most-discussed acts of 2013, Haim are another glaring omission from the nominees list. The all-girl three-piece have released some great pop records over the year, yet they have been overlooked in favour of more commercial, radio-friendly artists such as Imagine Dragons (who are inexcusably place in the Best Rock category as well) and P!nk. And how come Lady Gaga isn't among the pop nominees, but P!nk and Lana Del Rey are?

The Grammy Awards are renowned for ignoring some of the best artists in favour of established acts, so some of these omissions are understandable, but not excusable by any means. With so many glaring omissions in the 2014 list, this will no doubt go on to continue the argument 'are The Grammy's still relevant?' even further, not that it will change anything about future awards ceremonies. The full list of Grammy nominees is available here.

Lady Gaga
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