They've been giving out a GRAMMY AWARD for Best Rap Album for 23 years, and only five women have ever been nominated, including RAPSODY, who's up against KENDRICK LAMAR, JAY-Z, MIGOS and TYLER THE CREATOR this Sunday. That amounts to less than one nomination per presidential term, which should embarrass someone though no one seems to know who exactly. (And we're talking nominations, not wins; the only female winner was LAURYN HILL, for her role as one-third of the FUGEES). But that's nothing next to the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category, where in 43 years only one woman has been nominated for producing someone other than herself. This year's noms: CALVIN HARRIS, GREG KURSTIN, BLAKE MILLS, NO I.D.and the STEREOTYPES. In the Classical category, JUDITH SHERMAN is up against four men for what could be her sixth producing GRAMMY, so pop people, maybe step across the aisle and talk to classical people, and see if they have any tips on how to make music while a woman is sitting near the recording console. I will let you draw—or not draw—your own conclusion on how we get from this continuing lack of representation for women to the music industry's reluctance to distance itself from abusive men, which my friend COURTNEY E. SMITH chronicles with eye-popping clarity for REFINERY29. Is there *anyone* who the music business is prepared to punish in the same way HOLLYWOOD has punished, say, LOUIS C.K.? Is there anyone who *should* be punished like that? And if so, where do you draw the line: R. KELLY? CHRIS BROWN? What about (classic-rock trigger warning) DAVID BOWIE, who Smith spends several paragraphs contemplating? You may or may not agree all the way through, but these are fair, important and necessary questions to ask... TOM PETTY was taking fentanyl and other opioids in apparently heavy doses a year and a half after PRINCE died, which is heartbreaking in a million and a half ways. Writing about the opioid crisis in the wake of these celebrity deaths, POLITICO's DAN DIAMOND notes that KELLYANNE CONWAY retweeted a plea from Petty's relatives wishing for "further discussion on the opioid crisis." He also notes that Conway's boss, PRESIDENT TRUMP, "despite making repeated proclamations about the need to solve the opioid epidemic, hasn’t steered new funding to the problem and has even sought to cut resources"... One of the last major streaming holdouts has ended its holdout. No f-f-foolin'. DEF LEPPARD singer JOE ELLIOTT says the band has been ready to stream for several years but was waiting for the right deal and the right timing. A regime change at UNIVERSAL MUSIC made things easier, he adds... RIP FREDO SANTANA and JIM RODFORD.