Drake reignited his long-running feud with The Recording Academy, the organizers of the Grammy Awards, by slamming the ceremony Sunday evening.
The rapper took to social media earlier than the telecast, posting a message on his Instagram Tales that used a quick clip of his 2019 Grammy acceptance speech. Within the caption, he wrote “All you unbelievable artists keep in mind this present isn’t the details. It’s simply the opinion of a gaggle of individuals [whose] identify are stored a secret (actually you possibly can Google it). Congrats to anyone profitable something for hip-hop, however this present doesn’t dictate shit in our world.”
In 2019, Drake obtained a Grammy for greatest rap tune for “God’s Plan” and in his speech, he downplayed the importance of the award. “I need to let you realize that we’re taking part in in an opinion-based sport. Not a factual-based sport. So it’s not the NBA the place on the finish of the yr, you’re holding a trophy since you made the proper choices or received the video games.”
He added, “This can be a enterprise the place typically it’s as much as a bunch of individuals that may not perceive what a mixed-race child from Canada has to say or a fly Spanish lady from New York, or a brother from Houston — proper there, my brother Travis [Scott].”
He continued, “However look, the purpose is, you’ve already received you probably have people who find themselves singing your songs phrase for phrase, should you’re a hero in your hometown. Look, if there’s individuals who have common jobs who’re popping out within the rain, within the snow, spending their hard-earned cash to purchase tickets to come back to your reveals? You don’t want this proper there, I promise you,” he mentioned of the Grammys trophy. “You already received.”
Controversially, the telecast minimize to a business earlier than Drake completed his speech.
Drake has been nominated for 4 Grammys this yr — together with greatest rap efficiency, greatest rap tune, greatest melodic rap efficiency and greatest rap album — by way of a collaboration with 21 Savage, however he didn’t submit his personal solo album For All of the Canines for consideration, and didn’t submit his albums Licensed Lover Boy (2021) and Actually, Nevermind (2022) for consideration both.
