It’s that time of the year to celebrate the greatest in music and see some great hip-hop Grammy performances … or some lackluster ones. (Sorry, Nicki we’re still confused about last year’s producion.) With Wiz Khalifa being this year’s hip-hop performer, we put together the best hip-hop performances on the Grammys over the last 20 years.
Okay, not the greatest performance ever but what made this worth watching was T.I. was able to gather all the features on the track for the Grammys (they never shot a video for this song) which rarely happens on hip hop posse cuts at awards shows. There is always that one feature missing, but T.I. pulled it off with this one.
Jay-Z once famously banned the Grammys for not showing the hip-hop segment on live TV, but when he did decide to show up to the award show he brought all the A-listers out.
The Jimmy Fallon Tonight band backed Eminem in 2004 during his dismal hip-hop years. What made the performance memorable for hip-hop and rap fanatics was Em donning the “Free Tony Yayo” tee.
This is the performance that broke him into the mainstream. At the time Em was receiving a lot of flack for his “Marshall Mathers LP” due to use of gay slur words on the album. Em fired back during his Grammy performance when he featured openly gay singer, Elton John, on “Stan.” This was one of Eminem’s best performances ever.
Hip-hop still being a new genre at the time Run-DMC were given the opportunity to perform “Tougher Than Leather“. Even though Run-DMC brought the energy, the crowd looks less than interested. This was still a big moment for hip hop.
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