Drake has called out the Grammys after going home empty handed from this year’s ceremony.
Taking to his Instagram Stories on Sunday (February 4), the Toronto superstar congratulated his fellow rappers who won but said the awards show “doesn’t dictate shit in our world.”
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“All you incredible artists remember this show isn’t the facts — it’s just the opinion of a group of people whose names are kept a secret. Literally. You can Google it,” he wrote.
“Congrats to anybody winning anything for Hip Hop, but this show doesn’t dictate shit in our world.”
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Drizzy also reshared his Best Rap Song acceptance speech from 2019 where he dismissed the idea of putting music in competition.
He said at the time: “We play in an opinion-based sport, not a factual-based sport. It is not the NBA … This is a business where sometimes it is up to a bunch of people that might not understand what a mixed race kid from Canada has to say … or a brother from Houston right there, my brother Travis.
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“You’ve already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you are a hero in your hometown. If there is people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don’t need this right here, I promise you, you already won.”
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Drake was nominated for Best Rap Album for his collaborative LP with 21 SavageHer Loss, while the pair’s “Rich Flex” track was up for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, and “Spin Bout U” was up for Best Melodic Rap Performance.
He lost out on the first three awards to Killer Mike, while Best Melodic Rap Performance went to Lil Durk and J. Cole‘s “All My Life.”
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Drake had previously boycotted the Grammys and withdrew from the nominations in 2022. He gave no definitive reason for why he pulled out or why he later chose to resubmit his music for consideration.
The OVO hitmaker also criticized the awards ceremony when The Weeknd was shut out of the nominations following the huge success of his After Hours album in 2020.
“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 exists now and the ones that come after,” he said.
“It’s like a relative you keep expecting to fix up but they just won’t change their ways. The other day I said @theweeknd was a lock for either album or song of the year along with countless other reasonable assumptions and it just never goes that way.”
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He added: “This is a great time for somebody to start something new that we can build up over time and pass on to the generations to come.”
