I just finished watching the 2018 Grammys with a few of my friends. Although it was an elegant and fun event something was a bit off. It was interesting to see Jay-Z’s 4:44 album not win a single Grammy. Jay-Z is the same man who was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame just last year and already has 21 Grammys. His album 4:44 was number one on Billboard’s chart for two weeks and remained on the Top 100 for ten weeks. It was a highly anticipated album that delivered. For it to not win one Grammy seems fishy.
“Well maybe it just wasn’t that good”…Blasphemy.
Now what makes this fishy? It’s fishy because this past year Jay-Z has been more vocal than usual about the issues surrounding blacks in America. He’s been an advocate for the support, equality and success of people of color more loudly than usual. In an interview he did yesterday at Times Square, he comes after Trump and his presidency by explaining how Trump has done nothing for black employment and calls him a “superbug.” Twitter Thug President Trump responds to Jay-Z claiming black employment has increased since he’s been in office… all jokes. The increase of black people in minimum wage jobs is not progression. Also, how come Trump has the time to respond to Jay-Z but didn’t respond to Eminem, negativity, after he performed a whole rap cypher insulting him last year at the B.E.T. awards? Hmmm
I’m not that into conspiracy theories and I definitely do not have the proof but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of “possible” that Trump may have something to do with Jay-Z not getting awarded tonight.
I have no further comments.
Congratulations to Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars on dominating the 2018 Grammys.
