Frank Ocean and the Grammy Awards are not on good terms right now, with the R&B crooner opting to not submit his latest projects for consideration and questioning the relevancy of the awards. Producers for the show recently responded to Ocean’s negative outlook on the awards in an interview with Rolling Stone, and criticized Ocean’s 2013 performance of “Forrest Gump,” calling it “faulty.”
This has prompted a biting Tumblr post from Ocean, where he responds that the Grammys were faulty for giving Taylor Swift’s 1989 Album Of The Year over Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed To Pimp A Butterfly at last year’s awards.
Ocean wrote the Tumblr post in response to a Rolling Stone podcast interview where the award show’s producer Ken Ehrlich and writer David Wild discussed Ocean’s decision to not submit his latest album, Blonde, for award consideration this year, amid other criticism.
The pair mentioned that Ocean’s Grammy performance in 2013 was “not good TV,” but say they supported his vision nonetheless by going on with the show.
Portions of Ocean’s Tumblr post in response is as follows:
“Ok Ken (and David). As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly. We all die one day and you’re old so fuck it. Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute shit. Technical difficulties, blah blah. Thanks for the reminder. Very much appreciated. Fuck that performance though. You think that’s why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don’t you think I would’ve wanted to play the show to ‘redeem’ myself if I felt that way?
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“I’ve actually been tuning into CBS around this time of year for a while to see who gets the top honor and you know what’s really not ‘great TV’ guys? 1989 getting album of the year over To Pimp A Butterfly. Hands down one of the most ‘faulty’ TV moments I’ve seen.”
The producers of the show also zeroed in on the wave of other notable names who are skipping the awards this year, including Kanye West, Drake and Justin Bieber. Ehrlich and Wild claimed that they’ve put out invites to several stars but said very few confirmed for varying reasons, although the pair held out hope that Bieber might make an appearance.
The 59th Annual Grammy Awards air tonight (Feb. 12) at 8:00 PM EST on the CBS network.
Check out Frank Ocean’s 2013 Grammy Awards performance in the clip below.
Respect the platform. Tell them they racist with black music. …
nobody wanna hear this fairy
It’s got to a point now where nobody cares about the grammys because they are just a joke. Best pop music award is different to best music award. IE Drake Is winning Hip-Hop album of the year, but it isn’t the best hip hop album at all, it’s the best pop-hip-hop album. And everybodoes knows it, so who cares? Are they trying to get some credibility?
Every year with this nonsense. We get it. Quit worrying about them and go about your day then. It’s these same artists that brag all over social media if they DO win. Every. Single. Year! File this under “Sh*t Black People Consistently Complain About”. Next year will be the same BS all over again. Stop whining.
Not even the best pop hip-hop album.
I don’t agree, King HOV has how many of these Grammy Awards? These dudes aren’t winning cus they aren’t at level of King HOV. Step your game up or you’ll forever be a broke Nas Stan.
Hov is decent but king ? No.
frank is right, kendrick should have win
douubt kendrick cares, tpab already archived at harvard library and is the highest rated rap album ever
highest rated rap album ever? According to what? ..honest question
According to metacritic
If you mean Highest Rated album of ALL TIME then you dont know shit about Rap. FOH
basically anyone that knows rap
Fuckin racists they chose the white person how dare they.. only non-whites are to be rewarded! Look (((who))) owns the entertainment industry and you understand what this is all about..
so this really is just frank ocean being a bitchy queen, not so much about some sort of protest
TPAB was a black album for black People, which is aout 13% of the population even then majority of Black Folks(old) dont listen to Rap. Taylor Swift released her music for white and black teenage girls which is about 50% of the population. So NO, TPAB was not the best album and it sure as hell isn’t a people album, its Black Power Crap. Nobody can relate to Kendrick Lamar telling grown black folks not to fight at his concert, thats on TPAB.
Blacks better get rid of these black racists real fast or you won’t get no help from any other community. This gay mf is making everybody look bad.
Let me correct that for you” Taylor Swift released her music for white teenage girls”
There I fixed it.
Snoop Dogg openly admits that his daughter listens to Taylor Swift. FACTS. Youre a fucking racist if you only listen to “black” music. Music is Music
Everybody loves Kendrick TPAB even Taylor Swift so it wasn’t only just a black album it was universal
How can they compare the 2 albums… $$ talks
1989 did 9.5 million copy’s World Wide
To Pimp a Butterfly did 1 million copy’s World Wide
I am not a taylor Swift fan but she has a broader audience… my mother wouldn’t listen to Kendrick but she might listen to Taylor Swift… its just facts they need to get over it… Expand your market and sell out to get that Grammy or be happy with what you got and accept that she is MORE popular in the masses
Its not a Black or White thing… its just a Popularity Contest and they go off the numbers
They don’t even go by the numbers cause Chance the rapper is independent and his album sales is not higher than Kendrick it’s really just a popularity and they tried to please their race and give us bs cause we keep complaining about how they don’t respect us. They always have a unknown indie white winning the album of the year even Adele said that beyonce lemonade is phenomenal