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vvh0adie · 8 months

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Black History Fact: Scammy’s Edition

In the entire history of the Grammy’s (66 shows) only 11 Black artists have won Album of the Year. And only 3 of those have been Black women. And only 1 hip-hop/rap album has won that category.

We have yet to see Beyonce, Solange, Usher, Mariah, Anita, Missy, Mary J, Toni, TLC, Janet, Rihanna.

And we will never see the likes of Luther Vandross, Prince, Lisa Left Eye, and many more.

Every modern music genre is made by us and yet only 11 Black people, specifically African American, have won and most of them only have 1 AOTY.

Stevie Wonder is the only black person to have 3, surpassed by 2024’s AOTY winner.

It’s very clear what’s going on…

I understand why Kanye pissed on that $15/30 trophy

I am mind blown. 66 years, 11 artists and that’s taking in consideration that everything before and during Jim Crow was an era of not even allowing Black people at these awards. So as always white folks have had a step ahead cause Duke Ellington, Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway would have smoked back then.

Being Black is a highly specific level of Surrealism.

#black history month #preacha plym #atp it’s a popularity test and probably some financial scheming #and honestly i don’t think streams can count towards if a album was genuinely liked #we need to go back to physically buying albums #also i did not know the adademy was made up of other artist #is thought it was made up of music experts #and i mean like academics of a genre #i seee why no body watches them #and even if bts did win one i think it would be out of annoyance #like the academy would give them a shut up award #that way they’d never have to award them again

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