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Last night the 51st Annual Grammy Awards Nominations were announced with Lil Wayne leading the pack with 8 nominations for Tha Carter III.  Although it's definitely a bummer that The Roots' Rising Down didn't garner any Grammy love this year, ?uestlove, James Poyser, and Richard Nichols will be happy with the three nods to Al Green's latest offering, Lay It Down, which they produced (and big up to our main man Jon Smeltz, award-winning engineer, who is up again this year for Lay It Down).  Other noteworthy noms went to M.I.A. for "Paper Planes" in the Record of the Year category, Estelle's "American Boy" for Song of the Year, and Jazmine Sullivan for Best New Artist.  Grammy nods also went to Erykah Badu, Gnarls Barkley, Raphael Saadiq, Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Janelle Monae, and many more.  Of course Jay-Z and Kanye West also got mad love, with a number of nominations each. Congratulations to everyone!  For our short-list of OKP-notable Grammy nominations, follow me after the jump.

Last night at the BET Awards '08 some of urban music's best were honored, most notably (for us at OKP anyway) were winners Erykah Badu, UGK and Outkast, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys.  The most exciting aspect of the night for me, however, was the Lifetime Achievement Award which went to Al Green!  After he was honored by renditions of his songs from John Legend, Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, and Maxwell (??!! Yes, it's true.  Is he back?), Al took the stage and performed his smash hits "Let's Stay Together" and "Love And Happiness" to a joyfully geeked out audience who stood and danced and sang along throughout both songs.  Watch Al Green perform "Love and Happiness" below, followed by links to the other two performances.  For the full list of winners, see after the click.

?uestlove Video Interview On Sound Session

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Appropriately timed, right on the heels of Al Green's new release Lay It Down, comes The Green Album put together by Omer Saar of UniverSOUL Productions. Using acapellas from MF Doom, Biggie, Jay Z, and De La Soul among others, Omer mashes up some of hip-hop's best with classic Al Green tracks. See after the click, where you can view the tracklisting before you download.

 


Al Green Discusses Lay It Down

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