“I don’t know if anyone’s ever gone to the Grammys hoping to lose more,” said Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer of “I’m on a Boat”
Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg of The Lonely Island at the GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 31, 2010.
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Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer know that the Lonely Island‘s rap Grammy nod for “I’m on a Boat” with T-Pain might have been a fluke.
On Monday, the trio reflected on their nomination during an episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, sharing that they apologized to T-Pain for not connecting after the song’s nomination, and admitted that the nod may have happened because they’re white boys.
“I don’t know if anyone’s ever gone to the Grammys hoping to lose more,” Schaffer said. “We were like, ‘If we win, we can’t get on stage.’ We were only confident enough to go because we were that sure that we were going to lose.”
Samberg shared that they bumped into T-Pain at the awards show but that they hadn’t seen each other since they got nominated. The trio had debuted the song on Saturday Night Live with T-P
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