Not everybody needs to be half Music’s Greatest Evening.
Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Infantile Gambino is not going to take the stage at Sunday’s Grammys, in line with The New York Times. Regardless of being nominated for a number of awards, all three acts declined the chance to carry out. It’s unclear if they are going to attend the present.
Lamar leads with eight nominations this yr, adopted by Drake with seven. Gambino has 5 nominations, together with Report and Tune the Yr for “This Is America.”
The Grammys and hip-hop proceed to have a strained relationship. “The very fact the matter is, we proceed to have an issue within the hip-hop world,” stated Ken Ehrlich, the present’s longtime producer. “After they don’t take dwelling the massive prize, the regard the academy, and what the Grammys characterize, continues to be much less significant to the hip-hop neighborhood, which is unhappy.”
Ariana Grande additionally pulled out after clashing with producers over which track to carry out. “I’ve saved my mouth shut however now you’re mendacity about me,” Grande tweeted following an Related Press interview the place Erhlich stated that she “felt it was too late for her to tug one thing collectively.”
“I can pull collectively a efficiency over night time and that, Ken,” she added. “It was when my creativity & self expression was stifled by you, that i made a decision to not attend. i hope the present is strictly what you need it to be and extra.”
i’ve saved my mouth shut however now you’re mendacity about me. i can pull collectively a efficiency over night time and that, Ken. it was when my creativity & self expression was stifled by you, that i made a decision to not attend. i hope the present is strictly what you need it to be and extra. ?
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) February 7, 2019
Hosted by Alicia Keys, the 61st annual Grammy Awards are set to characteristic performances from Cardi B, Travis Scott, Publish Malone, Janelle Monáe, H.E.R., and Camila Cabello, in addition to a Motown tribute with Jennifer Lopez.
The present will air dwell from L.A.’s Staples Heart on Sunday at eight p.m. on CBS.