MTV caught up with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis before they took the stage at the Grammy Nominations concert, and talked about their 7 nominations!
“Up until a year, a year and a half ago, we were an underground rapper that only a small percentage of the population had heard,” Macklemore told MTV News. “And to be here, and to reach this scale, I would have never thought that our music would affect this many people and be heard by this many people. It’s the highest honor; it’s the peak of what you strive for in terms of being recognized for the music that you make.”