Ada kabar mengejutkan dari salah satu penyanyi R&B yang dihormati dan digilai saat ini, Kanye West. Pemilik album The Life of Pablo yang dirilis tahun ini mengatakan bahwa ia ingin memboikot Grammy Awards atau akrab disapa Grammys tahun depan.
Kenapa?
Alasan pemboikotan tersebut beredar setelah kabar album Endless dan Blonde milik Frank Ocean tidak masuk nominasi, karena tertahan saat pendaftaran. Seperti dikutip Fader pada Senin (24/10), Kanye berjanji kepada para penggemarnya untuk memboikot ajang penghargaan musik tahunan paling bergengsi di dunia tersebut.
“Album yang paling sering saya dengarkan tahun ini adalah albumnya Frank Ocean. Dan saya akan katakan kepada kamu sekarang, kalau albumnya tidak masuk nominasi di kategori manapun, saya tidak akan hadir ke Grammys,” kata suami dari Kim Kardashian ini di sela-sela konser Saint Pablo-nya di Oakland, Amerika Serikat.
“Sebagai artis, kita harus bersama-sama melawan omong kosong yang mereka katakan,” tambah Kanye.
Pernyataan Kanye tersebut direkam oleh @anthoniofficial, salah seorang penonton pertunjukkan Saint Pablonya yang digelar pada Minggu (23/10) malam, dan Anda dapat melihatnya di bawah ini beserta transkripnya.
Kanye saying he won’t show up to the @TheGRAMMYs if #frankocean doesn’t get nominated pic.twitter.com/rXGOgLoIEP
— Anthoni (@anthoniofficial) October 23, 2016
“I don’t know if any of y’all remember, I was supposed to go on tour with [Lady] Gaga. Like about, 6, 7 — a while back. I remember, it was something where she was nominated… She wasn’t nominated for best new artist, right? But they wanted her to perform at the show, they wanted her to open. So the Grammys secretly changed something about the nominations to nominate her in order for her to perform in the show.
Now, Frank Ocean on the other hand is very vocal wasn’t nominated for the Grammys. Since he’s vocal, no one wants to say nothing about it. No one wants to do nothing about it. I’m saying this to y’all, because a lot of people try to make a scene like, ‘I’m so self-centered.’ But the album I listened to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album. And I’ll tell you this right now: if his album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys. As artists, we gotta come together to fight the bullshit they been throwing us with. All we need is a fair shot. Let the album lose, let whoever win or lose. My whole point, my purpose, my existence, everything that people try to diss me for is based on just an instant replay plot. Imagine in sports they didn’t have no instant replay plot, and someone could step completely out of bounds.”
