JAY-Z fired shots at Grammys following Dr. Dre Global Impact Award win.
JAY-Z was honored with Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at the Grammy Awards 2024 for his prestigious career. The rapper received the award at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, as he was accompanied by his daughter Blue Ivy.
In his speech, the legendary rapper also fired shots at Grammys for snubbing Beyonce from Album of the year category. “And obviously, it’s subjective because it’s music,” he said. “It’s opinion-based. I don’t want to embarrass this young lady, but she has the most Grammys than everyone and never won album of the year. So, even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work. Think about that…. The most Grammys. Never won album of the year. That doesn’t work.”
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“How far we’ve come [since] Will Smith and them, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, winning they first Grammy in ’89, and boycotting because it wasn’t televised. In ’98, I took a page out of they book. I was nominated for Best Rap Album. DMX had dropped two albums that year, they both were number one. Shout-out to DMX. He wasn’t nominated at all, so I boycotted and I watched the Grammys. I’m just saying, we want y’all to get it right. We love y’all. We want y’all to get it right. At least get it close to right.”
“Some of you gonna go home and feel like you’ve been robbed. Some of you may get robbed. Some of you don’t belong in the category.” “Just in life, you gotta keep showing up. You gotta just keep showing up until they give you those accolades you feel you deserve until they call you chairman, until they call you a genius, until they call you the greatest of all time, you feel me?”
Check out his speech below.
