A pretty significant showdown is shaping up in an unexpected category for the 2022 Grammy Awards.
The nominees for Best Spoken Word Album — which includes poetry, audiobooks and storytelling — includes former President Barack Obama, Dave Chappelle, LeVar Burton and Don Cheadle.
Obama is nominated for his “A Promised Land” audiobook, marking his third Grammy nod after previously being nominated in the same category in 2006 and 2008. “A Promised Land” is the first of a planned two-volume memoir reflecting on Obama’s time in office and covers his early years up through the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.