{"id":369798,"date":"2025-11-10T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:00:19","slug":"phoenix-nerdcore-rapper-mega-ran-is-nominated-for-a-2026-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369798\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix nerdcore rapper Mega Ran is nominated for a 2026 Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Phoenix nerdcore rapper Mega Ran was nominated for a 2026 Grammy for his album \u201cBuddy\u2019s Magic Tree House\u201d in the Best Children\u2019s Music Album category.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a Show favorite, someone we\u2019ve had on the program a few times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is at our live event at the Crescent Ballroom back in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready for anything because I used to teach middle school y\u2019all. And uh, I\u2019ve definitely learned if you can do that &#8230; this is easy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few lines from a song on that album, &#8220;The Library Jawn&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, I want to talk to you about my favorite place in the world, the library. <br \/>Any readers out here? Excellent. <br \/>So again I wrote this for my kids. We were trying to learn how to spell it &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Mega Ran performs \u201cThe Library Jawn\u201d from his Grammy-nominated album \u201cBuddy\u2019s Magic Tree House\u201d during The Show\u2019s live event at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on Sept. 14, 2025.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762801219_65_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Mega Ran performs \u201cThe Library Jawn\u201d from his Grammy-nominated album \u201cBuddy\u2019s Magic Tree House\u201d during The Show\u2019s live event at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on Sept. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ListE-items\" data-list-loadmore-items=\"\">\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree stopped in Flagstaff on Friday night as part of its journey from Nevada to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Radcliffe herself has a long history of cheating, and as she told The Show&#8217;s Sam Dingman recently, the show is her attempt to figure out how and why she ended up betraying her own values.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Yesenia Ramirez is the organizer of downtown Phoenix\u2019s annual Arizona Pupusas Festival, which is taking place Sunday, Nov. 9.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Space 55 is putting on Muse Fest: The Inspiration Games this weekend and next at Metro Arts. It includes performances, workshops and \u2014 if all goes well \u2014 sparks of inspiration.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Danny Rensch was born into a spiritual community based in Tonto Village. He said the group was a cult, and in his new memoir, \u201cDark Squares,\u201d he tells the story of how playing chess became a pathway out of the group\u2019s clutches.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    Load More\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Phoenix nerdcore rapper Mega Ran was nominated for a 2026 Grammy for his album \u201cBuddy\u2019s Magic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":369799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-369798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115526948579856703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}