We are only a few days away from the 2019 Grammy awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (Feb 10) which most people probably aren’t going to watch. Many of the nominated artist are scheduled to perform such as Cardi B, Travis Scott, and Post Malone. 21 Savage would have performed if it wasn’t for his legal troubles.
But he’s not the only artist that’s not performing, being for different reasons Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Childish Gambino also declined to perform at the Grammys. While they are all up for nominations with Kendrick leading the way with 9, it’s become very clear that Hip-Hop don’t mess with the Grammy’s.
According to Nytimes interview with longtime producer of the grammy’s Ken Ehrlich “When they dont take home the big prize, the regard of the academy, and what the Grammys represent, continues to be less meaningful to the hip-hop community, which is sad.” But nobody really respects the Grammys anymore because they are not in tune with the culture.
For the past few years the award show has gotten many things wrong lack of diversity, barley any women winning awards, the wrong people winning awards, like when Macklemore won album of the year over Kendrick Lamar, not in a million years would that ever happen at any other award show.
Also with Ariana Grande going on a twitter rant about the show and backing out of it because of the comments made from Ken, this is going to a very talent-less show for the host Alicia Keys.