Whether or not you’re Beyoncé or Eve, it’s by no means too late to obtain a Grammy, regardless of how lengthy it takes. Effectively, it’s lastly Eve’s day to obtain her long-overdue second little gold gramophone. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the “Love Is Blind” rapper lastly picked up a Grammy for her uncredited verse on The Roots‘ “You Received Me” 27 years after the tune’s launch and subsequent Grammy win. The tune gained one of the best rap efficiency by a duo or group award on the 2000 Grammys, however, in a state of affairs paying homage to poor Llewyn Davis’ expertise on “Mr. Kennedy,” Eve went uncredited, excluding her from the spoils of awards season conflict. Although should you ask Recording Academy president Harvey Mason, as soon as they discovered in regards to the story, “it was actually easy[…]we would have liked to make it proper.”
Eve was nonetheless comparatively unknown as a rapper when the tune was launched, and he or she launched her debut album 9 months after “You Received Me” hit the airwaves. Nonetheless, the exclusion had clearly been bugging the members of the Roots, or not less than Questlove, who admitted to being “extraordinarily thoughtless” when discussing the controversy with Eve on his podcast in 2024. That is Eve’s second Grammy, having beforehand gained for her collaboration with Gwen Stefani, “Let Me Blow Your Thoughts.” Certainly, Eve’s thoughts appeared blown as she accepted the award on the Document Academy Honors final night time in Los Angeles.
“That is truly for little Eve from Philly, the little woman who liked to jot down rhymes and simply needed to be within the enterprise,” mentioned Eve. “I’m actually, actually grateful to be on this room with all of you right here, the entire greats, individuals who impressed me, my friends. I keep in mind when y’all known as me—I used to be a bit tipsy, I had a couple of martinis out with a good friend—and I sort of was like, ‘wow, what’s yours by no means can miss you, even 30 years later.’ So I’m actually grateful for this.”
