This is a great time for somebody to start something new that we can build up overtime and pass on to the generations to come.” The other day I said was a lock for either album or song of the year along with countless other reasonable assumptions and it just never goes that way. “I think we should stop allowing ourselves to be shocked every year by the disconnect between impactful music and these awards and just accept that what once was the highest form of recognition may no longer matter to the artist that exist now and the ones that come after,” he wrote in his Instagram Story. “It’s like a relative you keep expecting to fix up but they just won’t change their ways. A year ago, he called for them to be replaced with “something new that we can build up over time and pass on to the generations to come,” after it failed to recognize his peer and fellow Canadian artist the Weeknd in any of its 2021 categories, despite him having one of the top albums and singles of 2020.

However, Drake is scheduled to perform with Kanye West at the “Free Larry Hoover” benefit concert in Los Angeles on Thursday, so that explanation feels unlikely.ĭrake has had a long and at times contentious relationship with the Grammys. Some have speculated that his decision might have something to do with him being named in lawsuits surrounding the tragedy at the Astroworld festival in Houston last month, where 10 people died when the crowd rampaged during headliner Travis Scott’s set, which featured a guest appearance from Drake. He clearly did choose to submit - and was nominated - for the two rap categories he has withdrawn.

While it is uncertain whether he chose not to submit the blockbuster “Certified Lover Boy” or any songs from it for the big categories - Album, Song or Record of the Year - his absence from any of those categories on even the preliminary ballot distributed to voters, which includes thousands of releases, seems to suggest that he did not. The decision to remove a nomination at this late stage - after it has been submitted and announced, let alone on the day the ballots are posted - may be unprecedented.ĭrake’s choices of nominations were unusual, however. Grammy nominations must be submitted by a representative, usually the artist’s record label, and if an artist does not want their music considered, the label simply doesn’t submit it.

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