on the Night of Monday, received the canadian hip – hop and pop star Drake a Grammy award for best rap song for the song ‘Gods Plan’, which was the most streamed song on Spotify in 2018, and lay on top of the Billboard charts 11 weeks in a row.
But instead to thank the Grammy committee for the fine price, he used his time at the microphone to explain how small a value, the Grammy Awards has, according to him.
he was allowed in under 60 seconds, before the microphone was turned off.
– To all the kids out there who see it here, and all of my colleagues, who make music from their hearts, I will tell you this: We play in a holdningsbaseret sport. Not a factual sport.
– This is not the NBA (basketligaen in the UNITED states, red.), where you at the end of the year can lift the trophy, because you took the right decision or won the fight, said Drake.
Drake came with a somewhat startling statement during his speech. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
in addition to putting emphasis on that musical tastes are subjective, he explained, also, that the Grammy committee are not necessarily the best to relate to hiphopmusikken.
– the Point is that you have already won, if there are people singing your songs word for word. If you are a hero in your hometown. If there are ordinary people with ordinary jobs, who go out in the rain and snow and spend their hard earned money to come to your shows, then you have no use for it here price. So you’ve already won, he said to a gaping audience.
Subsequently, he held a short pause before he would again speak into the microphone, which, however, quickly had been turned off.
Drake had refused to appear at the show itself.
The same was Childish Gambino, who won the prize for the year’s song with the song “This Is America”. It was the first time in Grammy-after distribution had begun history, to a hiphopsang won the price.
The two stars rejection comes in the wake of the ceremony’s inception decreasing popularity through the recent years. Viewing figures fell last year by 24 percent, according to Forbes.
At the Grammy Awards last year, won just one woman an award during the show’s liveudsendelse. It got the president of the Grammy Awards Neil Portnow to declare that women had to tighten up.
It gave him a lot of criticism, and this year there were also significantly more female winners. Including countrysangerinden Kacey Musgraves, who, with his album “the Golden Hour” won the award for album of the year in front of, among others, Drake.
