The nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards we’re announced this morning, and the EMPIRE family is proud to have walked away with a whopping 6 total nominations in a wide range of genres and categories!
EMPIRE distributed artists Anderson .Paak, Fat Joe & Remy Ma, J Boog, and D.R.A.M. garnered nominations for one of music’s highest honors in the following categories:
Best Rap Performance
“All The Way Up” – Fat Joe & Remy Ma ft. French Montana & Infared
Best Rap Song
“All The Way Up” – Fat Joe & Remy Ma ft. French Montana & Infared
Best New Artist
Anderson .Paak
Best Urban Contemporary Album
“Malibu” – Anderson .Paak
Best Rap / Sung Performance
“Broccoli” – D.R.A.M. ft. Lil Yachty
Best Reggae Album
“Rose Pedals” – J Boog
EMPIRE Founder and CEO Ghazi Shami comments, “2016 has been a great year for EMPIRE. In just six years, We’ve grown from being a distribution company to a full-fledged record label and to be associated with six Grammy nominations is an incredible feeling. Major ‘thank you’s to the EMPIRE staff, our labels, artists, and all those have supported and continue to support our vision as a company. We’re Just getting started!”
Say’s D.R.A.M.: “We stay motivatied, continued to work hard and it actually paid off. I want to thanks Lil Yachty, J Gramm, Roget, everybody at Crowd Ctrl and Atlantic, but most importantly EMPIRE for giving me a platform.”
Anderson .Paak: “We did #Malibu on a Mac mini with an old dented mic off struggle tree and frontu leaf. We knew things would get better but damn!”
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