It’s been nearly 20 years since Outkast won Album of the Year for Speakerboxx/The Love Below in 2003. Before that, the only other Hip Hop album to win Album of the Year was 1998’s Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Will Kendrick Lamar's critically-acclaimed Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers finally bring the biggest GRAMMY of them all back to Hip Hop? Will Beyoncé’s Renaissance or Lizzo’s Special win and make the Hip Hop and R&B crowd happy? We’ll have to find out on February 5, 2023, at Crypto.com in Los Angeles, California.

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar lead the pack with nine and eight nominations respectively. Adele has seven nods, while Lizzo, Future, and Mary J. Blige all have six. Overall, the nominations are pretty great for the Hip Hop and R&B crowd for a great year in music. Beyoncé has just surpassed her husband Jay-Z for the all-time nominated artist at 85, with Jay-Z only having 83.

Here are the nominations for the 2023 GRAMMYS and LiFTED’s predictions below:

• ABBA Voyage

• Adele 30

• Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti

• Beyoncé Renaissance

• Mary J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous

• Brandi Carlile In These Silent Days

• Coldplay Music of the Spheres

• Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

• Lizzo Special

• Harry Styles Harry’s House

Did anyone know Coldplay had an album out this year? Who is Brandi Carlile? These are the questions that need to be answered. While it would be amazing for Bad Bunny to win just so the MAGA crowd would pass out because an album in all-Spanish won, LiFTED is going to go out on a limb and say Kendrick’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is going to win. It’s a piece of art that needs to be listened to over and over again to understand. Beyoncé’s Renaissance seems like another pretty safe bet and we wouldn’t be mad at that.

• Harry Styles ‘As It Was’

• Adele ‘Easy On Me’

• ABBA ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’

• Beyoncé ‘Break My Soul’

• Mary J. Blige ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’

• Brandi Carlile & Lucius ‘You and Me on the Rock’

• Doja Cat ‘Woman’

• Lizzo ‘About Damn Time’

• Steve Lacy ‘Bad Habit’

• Kendrick Lamar ‘The Heart Part 5’

Why is ABBA in this? Seriously. We can ask 10,000 people to name an ABBA song and no one will say ‘Don’t Shut Me Down.’ ‘Break My Soul’ takes this as ‘The Heart Part 5’ was cool because of the video, ‘Bad Habit’ is interesting, ‘Woman’ is a sleeper, and Adele has enough GRAMMYS.

• Harry Styles ‘As It Was’

• Taylor Swift ‘All Too Well [10 Minute Version]’

• Gayle ‘abcedfu’

• Lizzo ‘About Damn Time’

• Adele ‘Easy On Me’

• Steve Lacy ‘Bad Habit’

• Kendrick Lamar ‘The Heart Part 5’

• DJ Khaled featuring JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, John Legend & Fridayy ‘God Did’

• Beyoncé ‘Break My Soul’

• Bonnie Raitt ‘Just Like That’

Harry Styles ‘As It Was’ was everywhere this year and he’s doing his thing for sure, but this feels like it’s ‘About Damn Time’ Lizzo won. It feels highly unlikely, but if ‘God Did’ won because of that Jay-Z verse alone, that might be the biggest flex in the world.

• DJ Khaled God Did

• Future I Never Liked You

• Jack Harlow Come Home the Kids Miss You

• Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

• Pusha T It’s Almost Dry

Do you remember Macklemore? He beat Kendrick for the GRAMMY and he’s been MIA since. Don’t let Jack Harlow win this! He will disappear just like Macklemore. This is as sure of a lock as there has ever been at the GRAMMYS.

• Jack Harlow featuring Drake ‘Churchill Downs’

• DJ Khaled featuring JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, John Legend & Fridayy ‘God Did’

• Kendrick Lamar ‘The Heart Part 5’

• Gunna & Future featuring Young Thug ‘Pushin P’

• Future featuring Drake & Tems ‘Wait For U’

LiFTED is a sucker for anything Tems-related, so we want to hear that sweet voice on ‘Wait For U’ win a GRAMMY. Drake and Future get a bit of love for it, too.

• DJ Khaled featuring JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, John Legend & Fridayy ‘God Did

• Doja Cat ‘Vegas’

• Gunna & Future featuring Young Thug ‘Pushin P’

• GloRilla & Hitkidd ‘F.N.F. [Let’s Go]’

• Kendrick Lamar ‘The Heart Part 5’

‘God Did’ was made for this category as Jay-Z spit his brains out and had EVERYONE talking about this song for a month after it came out.

• DJ Khaled featuring Future & SZA ‘Beautiful’

• Future featuring Drake & Tems ‘Wait For U’

• Jack Harlow ‘First Class’

• Kendrick Lamar featuring Blxst & Amanda Reifer ‘Die Hard’

• Latto ‘Big Energy [Live]’

As much as LiFTED loves Tems, it's Kendrick's night. ‘Die Hard’ is very melodic, so it should win, but with that said, ‘Big Energy’ has an amazing melody, and so does ‘First Class.’