{"id":17452,"date":"2021-12-07T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:31:06","slug":"drake-withdraws-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/drake-withdraws-grammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake withdraws all of his 2022 Grammy nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of most music artists is to win a <strong>Grammy<\/strong>, considered one of the biggest awards in the music world. However, it appears not to be the case for <strong>Drake<\/strong>. This Monday, December 6th, <strong>Variety<\/strong> magazine confirmed that he withdrew his <strong>nominations<\/strong> from the 2022 edition. This was done of his own free will and the reason is still unclear.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST RAP PERFORMANCE<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cFamily Ties\u201d \u2013 Baby Keem feat. Kendrick Lamar<br \/>\n\u201cUp\u201d \u2013 Cardi B<br \/>\n\u201cMy Life\u201d \u2013 J. Cole<br \/>\n\u201cWay 2 Sexy\u201d \u2013 Drake<br \/>\n\u201cHot Shit\u201d \u2013 Megan Thee Stallion<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST RAP ALBUM<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Off-Season\u201d \u2013 J. Cole<br \/>\n\u201cCertified Lover Boy\u201d \u2013 Drake<br \/>\n\u201cKing&#8217;s Disease\u201d \u2013 Nas<br \/>\n\u201cCall Me If You Get Lost\u201d \u2013 Tyler, the Creator<br \/>\n\u201cDonda\u201d \u2013 Kanye West<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1467949543354298369\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drake has withdrawn his two Grammy nominations, a representative for the Recording Academy has confirmed to Variety. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X76zTNva7s\">https:\/\/t.co\/X76zTNva7s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ExvhFdusxv\">pic.twitter.com\/ExvhFdusxv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1467949543354298369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>The Grammy&#8217;s decision was to keep the <strong>categories<\/strong> with the remaining nominees. There will be no <strong>substitute<\/strong> for Drake&#8217;s place. It is worth remembering that from today, December 6th, the votes of the Recording Academy members were opened to define the winners.<\/p>\n<p> They must submit their votes by January 5th.<\/p>\n<p> The official <strong>ceremony<\/strong> is scheduled for January 31st.<\/p>\n<p>In other related news, in 2015, Drake not only was nominated but won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Best Rap\/Sung Performance for his hit \u201c<strong>Hotline Bling<\/strong>\u201d. However, the rapper revealed that he did not accept the honor, as he does not agree that his music was suited to the genre in which he was nominated.<\/p>\n<p> For him, the single is pop and it&#8217;s not a rap song.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>I&#8217;m apparently a rapper, even though &#8216;Hotline Bling&#8217; isn&#8217;t a rap song ,\u201d Drake said during OVO Sound&#8217;s \u201cBeats 1\u201d radio show. \u201c The only category I could fit into was rap, maybe because I&#8217;ve done something like that in the past or because I&#8217;m black.<\/p>\n<p> I can&#8217;t figure out why<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, he added, raising a question about racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of most music artists is to win a Grammy, considered one of the biggest awards in the music world. However, it appears not to be the case for Drake. This Monday, December 6th, Variety magazine confirmed that he withdrew his nominations from the 2022 edition. This was done of his own free will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":17454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grammys","8":"category-rap"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}