Grammy Family

2006 single by DJ Khaled featuring Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend
"Grammy Family"
Single by DJ Khaled featuring Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend
from the album Listennn... the Album and Don't Quit Your Day Job!
ReleasedJuly 1, 2006 (2006-07-01)
RecordedSeptember 2005
GenreHip hop
Length3:24
Label
  • Terror Squad
  • Koch
Songwriter(s)
  • Kanye West
  • Dexter Mills
  • John Stephens
Producer(s)
  • West
  • Jon Brion
DJ Khaled singles chronology
"Holla at Me"
(2006) 		"Grammy Family"
(2006) 		"Born-N-Raised"
(2006)
Kanye West singles chronology
"Drive Slow"
(2006) 		"Grammy Family"
(2006) 		"Number One"
(2006)
John Legend singles chronology
"So High"
(2005) 		"Grammy Family"
(2006) 		"Save Room"
(2006)

"Grammy Family" is the second single from DJ Khaled's debut album, Listennn... the Album. The single features and was written by Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend; Jon Brion assisted West in producing the track. As well as being featured on Khaled's album, the song appears on Consequence's album Don't Quit Your Day Job! (2007). The track's beat was sampled and rapped over by J. Cole on his debut mixtape The Come Up (2007).[1]

Composition

"What the World Is Coming To" by Dexter Wansel is directly sampled throughout the hip hop song.[2] As well as this, a riff from "You've Made Me So Very Happy" by Lou Rawls is made sample of throughout.[3] Furthermore, West quotes his own lyrics from Late Registration track "Celebration" when rapping: "It's a celebration bitches".[4]

Track listing

CD single[5]

  1. "Grammy Family" (Clean) – 3:26
  2. "Grammy Family" (Explicit) – 3:26
  3. "Grammy Family" (Instrumental) – 3:26

Commercial performance

On the week that it was officially released as a single, "Grammy Family" debuted and peaked at number 24 on the US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.[6]

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (Billboard)[7] 24

References

  1. ^ "J. Cole's 'The Come Up' sample of DJ Khaled feat. Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend's 'Grammy Famly'". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  2. ^ "DJ Khaled feat. Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend's 'Grammy Famly' sample of Dexter Wansel's "What the World Is Coming To"". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  3. ^ "DJ Khaled feat. Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend's 'Grammy Famly' sample of Lou Rawls's "You've Made Me So Very Happy"". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  4. ^ "DJ Khaled feat. Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend's 'Grammy Famly' sample of Kanye West's "Celebration"". WhoSampled. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  5. ^ "Consequence (2) Feat. DJ Khaled, Kanye West And John Legend – Grammy Family (CDr) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  6. ^ "DJ Khaled Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  7. ^ "Chart Search". Billboard. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
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