The Recording Academy honored a variety of artists who died this past year during its in memoriam segment at the 2019 Grammy Awards. One person noticeably absent from the tribute was XXXTENTACION, and it apparently wasn’t an oversight.
According to a report by Variety, the Grammys rejected repeated requests from the late artist’s reps for his inclusion and purposefully left him out of the segment. The controversial rapper reportedly wasn’t featured due to his alleged acts of domestic violence.
X was clearly on the Recording Academy’s radar though. In December, Rolling Stone specifically asked Academy president Neil Portnow about X’s chances of being in the segment.
“It’s always a daunting task to consider the talented young artists who died this year,” Portnow said. “We design the show after knowing the nominations, and that was today, so we will be deciding on the programming of that now. We don’t have pre-obits prepared like in journalism but we do leave time every year for an in memoriam and we will be planning that now. I don’t have an answer for you on XXX.”
Portnow said the Academy tracks all of the deaths in the music industry each year but can only feature about “10 to 15 percent” of the deceased in the show’s in memoriam segment. However, X was acknowledged in a list featured on the Grammy website.
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Rip
No miss
Grammys is a joke. Real men don’t watch that trash.
As they should have he was a garbage rapper and a garbage human being…evil mf
We have decided to distance ourselves from this talentless hack who beat hisnpregnant girl on camera and self snitched himself into a robbery/homicide.
only depressed white boys miss him
He’s in heaven looking down on us, thanking God that he never has to explain his dumb fucking face tattoos ever again. Is that an Olympic torch?
Not “noticeably” to the vast majority of people, only to those few who are in the wack hip hop bubble. There are other random rappers who were killed as well and didn’t make the cut but apparently you guys don’t care. You only care about X, the womanbeater everybody loves I guess.
RIP Jimmy Wopo Craig Mack Lovebug