Jay-Z, who was honored with an award for his entire hip-hop career at the 66th Grammy Awards, sent the audience into a frenzy and reignited the controversy surrounding his wife Beyoncé, who was nominated for the award by the Academy best album was always ignored. A paradox, because “Queen B” is the most awarded artist in the history of the ceremony with 32 gramophones.
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How can the situation be explained?
While Beyoncé's husband believes the Academy is to blame, her father Mathew Knowles says his record label doesn't adequately defend his music.
He said in an interview with the news site TMZ on Monday that his daughter's record company, Columbia Records, was not doing its part behind the scenes and even suggested that it would not fight to keep her candidacy in competition with the artists enforce for this category were selected.
“Record companies can only support one artist per category,” he told TMZ, “which becomes a problem when artists from the same label are chosen for the same award, as was the case with Beyoncé at least twice.”
According to Mr. Knowles, Columbia Records would have preferred to back Adele in 2017 and Harry Styles last year for album of the year.
For his part, Jay-Z believes the academy is to blame for perpetuating this practice. The rapper didn't miss the opportunity to speak on Sunday evening during his acceptance speech for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award to highlight the inconsistencies in the selection of artists in this category. In particular, he acknowledged that the process was “subjective” and “didn’t work.”
What his father-in-law did not deny on Monday afternoon, adding that money was a big motivating factor.
– With AFP