Kelly Rowland is on crew Jay-Z. The Future’s Youngster member and solo star spoke to ET on the crimson carpet L.A. premiere of the Bob Marley biopic One Love, the place she was requested about Jay’s shock feedback castigating the Recording Academy for by no means awarding spouse Beyoncé an album of the yr Grammy.
“Shawn Carter [Jay-Z’s real name] is likely one of the biggest males I do know and his phrases ring so loud to me,” Rowland stated. “I couldn’t be extra happy with him.” Whereas accepting his Dr. Dre International Influence Award at Sunday’s Grammys, Jay shock pivoted to a love/hate sidebar about Bey, who was sitting within the viewers on the Crypto.com Enviornment.
“I’m simply saying, we wish y’all to get it proper. We love y’all; we love y’all; we wish you to get it proper, or not less than get it near proper, and clearly it’s subjective … as a result of it’s music and it’s opinion-based, however some issues — I don’t need to embarrass this younger girl,” he stated referring to Beyoncè. “However she has extra Grammys than everybody and by no means received album of the yr, so even by your individual metrics that doesn’t work. Take into consideration that. Probably the most Grammys and by no means received an album of the yr. That doesn’t work.”
Rowland added, “I’m simply actually blissful for lots of issues that he stated. I believe that he made loads of artists really feel very seen and really heard in these minutes that he took on stage.”
For the document, Beyoncé has a document 32 Grammy wins on her resumé, however she has by no means received the coveted album of the yr award. “I really feel like she is an icon… and that’s for a purpose — it’s as a result of she begins tendencies,” Rowland instructed ET. “She is modern, her ideas are huge and vibrant and he or she simply jumps for them and does it. I believe that her albums are a mirrored image of that, and it needs to be actually celebrated in that method.”
Rowland added that she wasn’t simply saying that as a result of Bey is her “sister,” however as a result of “it’s the reality. I’ve seen the blood, sweat and tears that she places into these initiatives, and her ideas and her coronary heart and her ardour and her soul.”
