Vybz Kartel is nominated for his first-ever Grammy in the Best Reggae Album category for Party With Me. The Jamaican superstar’s eight-track effort rolled out in May 2024, just a little over two months before his release from prison. In a recent chat with the Recording Academy, the Caribbean sensation recapped the process of recording his latest album while incarcerated, revealing that he mimicked studio padding by using his mattress to control echo as he rapped his lyrics into an iPhone 15. “Receiving a Grammy nod is big, it’s great, but it was never a career goal,” he first admitted.