Drake Comes In Support To The Weeknd’s Grammys Controversy
The Weeknd isn’t the one seriously bitter about the Grammys 2021 Nomination. Having shared how he felt, Drake also come forward shading the Grammys 2021 roll call after Weeknd might’ve percivied lack of transparency from the award platform.
The Weeknd after the “Blinding Lights” singer was sidelined in the 2021 Grammy nominations, Drake is more of siding for him, probably having known The Weeknd’s wrath following his After Hours flopped from Grammys.
The Weeknd whose real name is Abel Tesfaye thought he did enough to earn at least one Grammy mention for After Hours, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 and stayed there for a month, or its hit “Blinding Lights,” which also led the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.
The Toronto native even managed a nomination at the 2020 ARIA Awards in Australia, but his name wasn’t on the Grammys roll call.
However, Drake and The Weeknd aren’t happy and have left salty response on how the Award show has been lately.
The R&B singer expressed his frustration toward the Recording Academy on behalf of himself, his fans and the entire music industry. “The Grammys remain corrupt,” he stated on Twitter. “You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency…”
“Collaboratively planning a performance for weeks to not being invited? In my opinion zero nominations = you’re not invited!”
As for Drake, all he has to say is, Now, “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 artists that exist now and the ones that come after,” he wrote on Instagram.
“The other day I said The Weeknd was a lock for either album or song of the year along with countless other reasonable assumptions and it just never goes that way,” he continued. “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.”
As said earlier, The Weeknd isn’t the only sounding much unhappy. Lil Baby, Kid Cudi, Charlie Puth, Tinashe and Akon are desperately not happy as well.