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Check out the list of the contenders for the highest honor in music, and tune in to see who won on February 12th.

RECORD OF THE YEAR
Adele “Rolling In The Deep”
Bon Iver “Holocene”
Bruno Mars “Grenade”
Mumford & Sons “The Cave”
Katy Perry “Firework”

SONG OF THE YEAR
Kanye West “All Of The Lights”
Mumford & Sons “The Cave”
Bruno Mars “Grenaded”
Bon Iver “Holocene”
Adele “Rolling In The Deep”

BEST NEW ARTIST
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Adele 21
Foo Fighters Wasting Life
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Rihanna Loud

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
Adele “Someone Like You”
Lady Gaga “Yoü And I”
Bruno Mars “Grenade”
Katy Perry “Firework”
Pink “F***in’ Perfect”

BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse “Body And Soul”
The Black Keys “Dearest”
Coldplay “Paradise”
Foster The People “Pumped Up Kicks”
Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger”

See the entire list of nominees right here.

Don’t forget to check out our Grammys nominees gallery below!

Shawty Redd was nominated for “Rap Song of The Year” for “Sensual Seduction,” a hit from the beginning of this year on Snoop’s Ego Trippin’. On the album, the song was titled “Sexual Eruption,” a title change was made for the radio single.

Monday evening, the producer told DX, “Man, it’s an honor to be nominated for a Grammy Award. Actually, this is my first nomination so it means a lot. I been grindin’ and doin’ my thing for a while now so to get recognized is a blessing. I knew when I was in the studio with Snoop workin’ on ‘Sexual Eruption’ that it was a smash, so it was a huge record this past year for us both!”

Shawty Redd will await to see if he wins at the February awards. In the meantime, the producer has recently worked with Big Kuntry, as well as Jeezy’s reported next Recession single “Who Dat.”

The recently hired A&R for Universal Records also reportedly has records in the works with The Clipse, Shawty Putt and Hurricane Chris.

The Grammy Awards air February 8 at 8 pm on CBS.

SOURCE: HipHopDX

Sibling duo Play-N-Skillz are in the Grammy spotlight for the second year in a row.

Their production of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’” earned them their first trophy in 2007 for best rap performance by duo or group. This year, their Lil Wayne single “Got Money,” featuring T-Pain, is nominated for best rap/sung collaboration.

Wayne’s CD, Tha Carter III, is also among the contenders for album of the year, which puts Play-N-Skillz in position to pick up one of the most Grammy’s most prestigious trophies.

“This was a little bit more shocking than the last one,” Play tells Billboard.com. “I wasn’t as surprised for ‘Tha Carter III’ to be nominated for best rap album, but album of the year? That’s like the biggest accolade you can receive. Of course, for the song to be nominated itself was shocking. But, at the same time, it justifies all the hard work.”

The nomination is extra sweet for Play-N-Skillz because not only was the original version of “Got Money” lost after an engineer mistakenly erased it, but the track wasn’t even meant to appear on Lil Wayne’s album.

“After we remade the song, which is tough to do, we laid the chorus idea and gave it to Pitbull, but it didn’t make it to him in time,” says Play. “T-Pain ended up singing the chorus, he put it in Wayne’s hands, and the rest is history.”

The producers, who recently worked with Hurricane Chris, Yung Joc, Slim, Cassidy, Slim Thug and Lil Wayne’s upcoming project, are now preparing to release their own album.

Titled Out the Box, the set is slated to drop in summer 2009 via their independent label, G4 Recordz. Promotional single “Checking My Fresh” samples Jay-Z’s “Swagga Like Us” and was serviced to radio last week. The first official single, “Angel Eyez,” featuring Akon, will be released in the coming weeks.

Talib Kweli, Bun B, Slim Thug, 112, Yung Joc, Tego Calderon, Pitbull and Maino have all contributed guest vocals. Play-N-Skillz will also release a mixtape in the next few months leading up to the album.

Although a teaser trailer of Lil Wayne’s The Carter documentary has been around since the summer, it was recently revealed that it will be unveiled in its entirety at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film is directed by respected music documentary film maker Adam Bhala Lough. According to various sources, Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Wayne’s manager Cortez Bryant will also be featured in the film.

In the trailer for the film, Wayne says, “I wrote my first rap at eight, talking about fuckin’, smokin’, shootin’ guns. Same shit. All that crazy shit that everybody love.”

The film will be on display on theater screens at the Park City, Utah festival, which runs from January 15-25 ot the upcoming year.

In related news, Weezy F. Baby kicks off this winter tour in less than a week.

SOURCE: HipHopDX

EMI Music Publishing songwriters once again led the way in the nominations for the annual GRAMMY Awards, which were announced in Los Angeles yesterday. Jay-Z, Kanye West, Duffy, Stargate, Death Cab For Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Mary Mary and Alicia Keys all earned multiple nominations for the awards to be held at the Staples Center in LA on February 8, 2009.

Jay-Z scored a mammoth six nominations, following the release of ‘American Gangster’ which is recognized in the Album of the Year and Best Rap Album categories. ‘Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)’ is nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance, while ‘Swagga Like Us’ (by Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne) scores two nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. He receives an additional nomination in the latter category for ‘Mr Carter’, which he co-wrote and performed alongside Lil Wayne.

Kanye West, who won five Grammys at the 50th annual awards in February this year, picks up another six nominations this year. ‘American Boy’, which Kanye performed on alongside Estelle, is nominated for Song of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. He shares two nominations in the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group section (‘Swagga Like Us’ and ‘Put On’), as well as the nomination for ‘Swagga Like Us’ for Best Rap Song. He additionally features on Lil Wayne’s album ‘Tha Carter III’, which is nominated for Album of the Year. Lil Wayne’s chart-topping hit ‘Lollipop’ (recognized for Best Rap Song) was co-written by EMI Music Publishing songwriters Jim Jonsin and the late Static Major.

The Grammy committee really likes lollipops. Or women in uniform. Or multisyllabic chants about millions, because Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III has earned eight nominations at the 51st Grammy Awards.

Lil Weezy’s latest project broke sales records in its debut week and is rightfully nominated for album of the year. His other nods include best rap song for “Lollipop” and best rap/sung collabo for “Got Money” featuring T-Pain.

Other big pre-winners are Jay-Z, Kanye West and Ne-Yo with six nominations each. Two of West’s nominations came for his production on Tha Carter III and Estelle’s “American Boy.” He is also up against himself in the best rap performance by a duo or group category, for “Swagga Like Us” with Jay-Z & T.I. and featuring Lil Wayne and “Put On” with Young Jeezy. Jay-Z also faces off against himself in that category, with “Swagga” going up against his collaboration with Wayne on “Mr. Carter.”

For more on Grammy nominations for Lupe Fiasco, Jazmine Sullivan and others go to Newsone.com.