The Grammy Awards are considered the most prestigious awards in the international music industry, but rapper Drake just caused a surprise when… withdrawing from the nomination list.
Rapper Drake has just announced his withdrawal from the Grammy nomination list in two categories: Best Rap Album and Best Rap Performance.
Although the reason behind this action has not yet been announced, this is startling information in the international music industry. Although receiving a nomination at the Grammy Awards was the dream of every artist working in the music industry, Drake’s move surprised everyone.
The 35-year-old male rapper made this decision after having a dialogue with the management unit. The announcement to withdraw from the nomination list is the latest move in the long-term tense relationship between the Canadian male artist and the Grammy Awards and the event’s organizer – the Fall Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Country music.
In 2018, Drake refused to submit the album “More Life” for the Grammy organizers to evaluate and consider in making a nomination, because a year earlier, Drake found it difficult to accept the album’s release. His single “Hotline Bling” won the award for Best Rap Song, even though according to him, the song doesn’t have… any rap in it.
At that time, Drake made many shockingly frank statements about the Grammy Awards, for example: “Maybe because I rap a lot or maybe because I’m black, they gave me that award.” .
I feel isolated, or people are intentionally isolating me by letting me win the rapper award, even though my song doesn’t have any rap in it, or maybe they Wanting to appease me, he gave me a prize of some sort. They put me in the rap category, because that was the only category they saw fit to put me in.”
In fact, the fact that the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences does not pay due attention to black artists has been a subject of debate for many years and has caused some artists to speak out. attitude.
For example, Canadian male singer – The Weeknd spoke up in 2020 when he did not receive any nominations for his album “After Hours” or hit single “Blinding Lights”.
In 2019, rapper Drake, rapper Kendrick Lamar and singer Childish Gambino refused to perform at the Grammy Awards event. However, Drake attended the awards ceremony to receive the award for Best Rap Song for the song “God’s Plan”. When he stepped up to receive the award, Drake spent his speech expressing his attitude about the Grammy Awards. :
“This is an award that sometimes all depends on a group of people, even though these people may not understand much about race issues, about the difficulties and inequities that people like me and a Some of my colleagues suffer, we are people of color, we are immigrants…
If you are an artist who can appeal to workers with regular jobs, people who still have to go out to work even when it’s raining or snowing, people who are willing to use hard money It’s hard-earned, to buy tickets to see your show, so you no longer need prizes like this.
I swear to you, if you have appealed to ordinary workers like that, you have won.”
Drake’s statement was so shocking that the live awards ceremony had to quickly switch to commercials before Drake finished his speech.
In 2020, when he saw male singer The Weeknd speak up for not receiving a nomination, Drake continued to express his opinion that the Grammy Awards no longer updated the spirit of the contemporary industry and should be replaced by “something new”.
In a post on social media at that time, Drake wrote: “I think we should not be shocked by the disconnect between music that has the ability to have a strong impact on listeners and awards of this type, we We need to learn to accept that awards, once considered the pinnacle of recognition, may no longer be important to artists.”
In March 2021, male singer The Weeknd continued to affirm that he would forever boycott the Grammy Awards. The Weeknd said that the nomination process of this award had problems.
Sharing with the New York Times (USA), male singer The Weeknd said: “Because the nomination review committee operates in secret, I will never agree to let the record label collaborating with me submit the application. my musical products to the Grammy Award judging committee.”
Just a few weeks after this year’s awards ceremony took place, representatives of the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that they would make some adjustments in the nomination review process.