Drake earned two Grammy nominations on Tuesday morning, regardless of his outspoken refusal to submit his solo music for the 2023 awards season.
With out his particular person music at play, the singer is nominated for his featured work on two songs, each up for Finest Rap Tune — “Churchill Downs” by Jack Harlow and “WAIT FOR U” by Future.
Drake has a protracted historical past of frustrations with the GRAMMY Awards and the Recording Academy, first skipping the present in 2017 after criticizing the Academy for nominating “Hotline Bling” in rap classes relatively than pop. In 2022, he withdrew his nominations for Licensed Lover Boy and “Method 2 Attractive.”
He later spoke concerning the determination on Apple’s Beats 1, saying he wasn’t glad that he was solely being acknowledged as a rapper by the Recording Academy.
“I’m a Black artist, I’m apparently a rapper, regardless that ‘Hotline Bling’ will not be a rap track,” he mentioned on the present. “The one class that they will handle to suit me in is in a rap class, possibly as a result of I’ve rapped previously or as a result of I’m Black.”
In 2019, when he gained the Grammy for Finest Rap track for “God’s Plan,” his speech was reduce off when he famous that an artist doesn’t want a Grammy to validate one’s profession.
“We play in an opinion-based sport, not a factual-based sport,” he mentioned. “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… the purpose is you’ve already gained in case you have people who find themselves singing your songs phrase for phrase, should you’re a hero in your hometown.”
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