Former US president Barack Obama and comedian Dave Chappelle will be squaring off against each other after garnering Grammy nominations in the same category. The former American supremo and the comedian, who has recently been under a lot of heat, are among the contenders for the category of best spoken word album, according to nominations announced on Tuesday. 

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While Obama was nominated for the audio version of his 2020 memoir “A Promised Land,” Chappelle, along with poet Amir Sulaiman, earned a nod for the comic’s George Floyd-focused Netflix special, “8:46.”

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The presidential audiobook, which stays focused on Obama’s political career, chronicles his life from childhood through the events surrounding the assassination of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

The publication of Chappelle’s newest Netflix special, “The Closer,” which insulted the transgender community and used obscene language to allude to a transgender person’s genitalia, sparked outrage last month.

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Obama would win the Grammy Award for the third time if he won it at the Grammys. In the same spoken word category, he won Grammys in 2006 and 2008. He won the awards for his memoirs ‘Dreams from My Father’ in 2006, and ‘The Audacity of Hope’ in 2008.  

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The Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on January 31.

LeVar Burton, Don Cheadle — who narrated the audio edition of late Rep. John Lewis’s (D-Ga.) book “Carry On” — and J. Ivy are among the other contenders in the category.