Kanye pulls a Kanye and vows to boycott the Grammys if Frank Ocean isn’t nominated – but does he have a point?
He went on to tell the crowd of his plans to avoid the ceremony if his wishes aren’t met:‘And I’m saying this to y’all, because a lot of people try to make a scene, like, ‘I’m so self-centered.’ But the album I listened to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album. And I’ll tell you this right now: If his album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys.
‘As artists, we gotta come together to fight the bullsh*t they been throwing us with. All we need is a fair shot. Let the album lose. Let whoever win or lose.’
Kanye West has vowed he’ll be boycotting the Grammys if Frank Ocean doesn’t get nominated. Sounds very Kanye, but he might be on to something.
Kanye now things the rules should be bent for his pal as he reckons he deserves the recognition. And his argument is that they’ve done it before, so why can’t they do it again?
During his Saint Pablo Tour, he told the crowd Lady Gaga is the reason he’s calling for a rule change.
He said: ‘[Gaga] wasn’t nominated for Best New Artist, right? But they wanted her to perform at the show; they wanted her to open. So the Grammys secretly changed something about the nominations in order to nominate her, in order for her to perform in the show.
‘Now, Frank Ocean, on the other hand, is very vocal that his album wasn’t nominated for the Grammys, right? Since he’s vocal, no one wants to say nothing about it. No one wants to do nothing about it.’
He went on to tell the crowd of his plans to avoid the ceremony if his wishes aren’t met:
‘And I’m saying this to y’all, because a lot of people try to make a scene, like, ‘I’m so self-centered.’ But the album I listened to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album. And I’ll tell you this right now: If his album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys.
‘As artists, we gotta come together to fight the bullsh*t they been throwing us with. All we need is a fair shot. Let the album lose. Let whoever win or lose.’
Kanye’s beef is that the rules were bent for Lady Gaga in 2010 as her album The Fame was released in 2009, making it ineligible for an award the year later. So rules were allegedly ‘secretly’ bent and she was nominated for a string of awards.
He said: ‘[Gaga] wasn’t nominated for Best New Artist, right? But they wanted her to perform at the show; they wanted her to open. So the Grammys secretly changed something about the nominations in order to nominate her, in order for her to perform in the show.
‘Now, Frank Ocean, on the other hand, is very vocal that his album wasn’t nominated for the Grammys, right? Since he’s vocal, no one wants to say nothing about it. No one wants to do nothing about it.’
‘And I’m saying this to y’all, because a lot of people try to make a scene, like, ‘I’m so self-centered.’ But the album I listened to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album. And I’ll tell you this right now: If his album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys.
‘As artists, we gotta come together to fight the bullsh*t they been throwing us with. All we need is a fair shot. Let the album lose. Let whoever win or lose.’
Kanye’s beef is that the rules were bent for Lady Gaga in 2010 as her album The Fame was released in 2009, making it ineligible for an award the year later. So rules were allegedly ‘secretly’ bent and she was nominated for a string of awards.
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