Canadian rapper and producer Aubrey Graham, professionally
known as Drake, has withdrawn from the 2021 Grammy Awards consideration.
Drake got two nominations in this year’s Grammys; Best Rap
Performance for ‘Way 2 Sexy’ and Best Rap Album for ‘Certified Lover Boy’.
According to multiple reports, the request to withdraw came
from Drake’s management, which the Recording Academy obliged.
This means there will now be only four nominees in each of
the affected categories.
So far, the four-time Grammy Award winner has not made a
statement regarding the withdrawal.
For a while, Drake has been critical of the Grammys.
Last year, as part of the uproar over the award-nominations
process and its use of so-called ‘nominating committees’. The Recording
Academy’s system came under fire when Drake’s compatriot, The Weeknd, was
snubbed for any nominations despite having some of the year’s most critically
acclaimed and popular work.
Expressing his discontent with the award organisers, Drake
wrote on his Instagram page last year, “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 artist that exist now and the ones that
come after. It’s like a relative you keep expecting to fix up but they just
won’t change their ways.”
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