Teyana Taylor is not pleased with the Recording Academy.
The nominations for the 2021 awards were announced on Tuesday (November 24), and while there were plenty of questionable choices and omissions, the category for Best R&B Album stood out in particular. Despite multiple women dropping acclaimed bodies of work in the genre, the nominees were all male – and Taylor isn’t having it.
“Y’all was better off just saying best MALE R&B ALBUM cause all I see is dick in this category,” she wrote in a retweet of the Recording Academy sharing the nominations.
Up in the category are John Legend’s Bigger Love, Luke James’ To Feel Love, Giveon’s Take Time, Ant Clemons’ Happy 2 Be Here and Gregory Porter’s All Rise. The Best “Progressive” R&B album category offers slightly more diversity with Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour and Jhené Aiko’s Chilombo, however.
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Taylor released her third studio effort The Album on Juneteenth. With 23 tracks, the project featured appearances from the legendary Lauryn Hill, Future, Missy Elliott, Quavo, Rick Ross, Erykah Badu, Big Sean and more. It debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 32,000 album-equivalent units, making for Taylor’s first-ever top 10 debut.
Other quality R&B projects released by women this year include Alicia Keys’ Alicia, Brandy’s B7, Kehlani’s It Was Good Until It Wasn’t and Queen Najia’s Misunderstood – just to name a few.
Nicki Minaj had similar criticisms for the Academy earlier in the day, blasting them for not giving her the Best New Artist award when she was nominated in 2012 and instead “[giving] it to the white man Bon Iver.”
Revisit The Album below and check out the full list of Grammy nominations here.
mad dat wap aint get nominated with such superior lyrics and mucianship that dr suess would be proud of?
The exact type of Black “Queen” I want my daughters to grow up and look up to!!
-white
So gender is now a qualification to be nominated ? Talent doesnt matter as long as you got a wap ? Thats the most sexist shit I ever heard.
she actually had a pretty decent album and even got some good guest spots on there… i see where she going with it and i aint even simpin lol
” i ain’t even simpin…..” That’s exactly what a simp would say! I’m on to you bro…..
Real talk …
I understand where T.T is coming from, but Brandy album was terrible, Alicia keys album was bad, kelani album was horrible and queen najia joint wasn’t good, they all had good singles and bad albums. T.T album was great I felt like it was one of the best albums I heard this year along with Nas album. John Legend album was not good as usually, I do like when he’s sings on hook for rappers. Luke James album wasn’t good, those other artist on there I didn’t listen to so I can’t say anything about them, but her album deserves to replace Luke or John legends album. She also should have left Rick ross and quavo off her album and chop this up in to two albums in drop them within 6-7 months from each other.
Who???
Oscars are too white, Grammys are too male… I cant stand these identity politics bullsh*t. Grow up, Snowflakes.
lmao everyone pressed about the Grammys…duh all you will see is dick cuz all you birds do is sell pussy…is this broad delusional?? if more women in hip hop did substance it would lift all y’all up and the rhapsody’s would get more recognition and be revered by now. Call out your fellow women who sell sex all day
Then get your mind out of the gutter…
Sometimes it has less to do with physical characteristics and more to do with actual talent. How that looks at the time award shows come around is going to be different each time, because at the end of the day it’s about the talent and quality of music being put out, not “do we have enough of (insert characteristic here) people in the list for this year?”