In a huge year for the duo, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis takes a minute to chop it up with MTV to talk about their seven Grammy nominations including “Album of the Year,” “Best New Artists,” “Best Rap Album,” and more!

“Overwhelmed, excited, and extremely grateful for this position,” Macklemore says. “I mean to put it in those terms and thinking where we’ve came from, and up until a year and a half ago, we were an underground rap group that only a small percentage of the rap population knew about…”

Congrats to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on their nominations! Peep the rest in the video above! – Terrell “TreQues” Robinson