The prestigious 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony created scandal for itself and was so opposed that it reached the top of Twitter with the keyword “Grammy scam”.
In the early morning of February 5 (Vietnam time), the 66th Grammy Awards, the most prestigious award ceremony on the planet, officially took place at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles. And less than an hour after starting, Grammy 2024 created its own drama, causing controversy to the point of trending on Twitter with the keyword #Scammys (a play on the phrase “Grammy scams”). It happened after the 2024 Grammy announced Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice won the Best Rap Song award on Twitter. This seems to be a historic moment in the career of powerful female rapper Nicki Minaj because she has been nominated 12 times but has never won. However, the owner of the hit song Anaconda had to be disappointed because Grammy… made a mistake. So sitting still and getting shot, Nicki suddenly became the victim of the humiliating “curse” of giving the wrong award that caused Oscar 2017 and Miss Universe 2015 to stagger.
The tweet that mistakenly awarded the award to Nicki Minaj has now been deleted by Grammy. Many audiences couldn’t help but feel frustrated and angry because the most prestigious Grammy made such an unacceptable and sensitive mistake like this.
Nicki suddenly missed out on two awards in a humiliating manner at the 2024 Grammy Awards night. This female rapper’s case inevitably reminded the audience of the historical incident that turned the 2017 Oscars and Miss Universe 2015 awards ceremonies into “pans of controversy.” ”
Remember in 2015, famous MC Steve Harvey announced the wrong award, making the Columbia representative disappointed when she had to experience the moment of being crowned Miss Universe 2015 and then having it taken away. This noisy incident shocked world public opinion. Although it warmed up the Miss Universe contest, it caused the organizers and MC Steve to lose more or less credibility.
After realizing the mistake, Grammy 2024 quickly deleted the tweet and corrected that Killer Mike was the winner with the song Scientists & Engineers featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane. Most bitterly, on today’s awards night, Nicki was nominated in the Best Song Written for Visual Media category, but ultimately lost to brothers Billie Eilish and FINNEAS. So to sum up, the female rapper missed out on 2 awards. Immediately after this unfortunate incident, many Nicki Minaj fans became angry, bringing the keyword #Scammys (Grammy scams) to the top trending of Twitter. The incident did not stop there, because a large part of the audience accused the Academy of rigging the results to “retaliate” amid the recent peak conflict between Nicki and Megan Thee Stallion. And Grammy is said to be supporting Megan Thee Stallion to appear.
The heated conflict between Megan and Nicki occurred when Megan Thee Stallion released the song Hiss on January 25. In the lyrics, the female rapper mentions many tumultuous aspects of her life as a celebrity. The story could have stopped there if Megan hadn’t written one sentence: “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law” (These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes are mad at Megan’s Law). Megan’s Law), and the sensitive word “hoes” here is said to refer to the women that hip hop artists have dated or slept with. From here, Megan’s rap was accused of being ironic about Nicki and her husband Kenneth Petty. Kenneth Petty served 4 years in prison for raping a 16-year-old girl 29 years ago.
Up to now, the theory about the relationship between Grammy’s drama and Nicki and Megan Thee Stallion is still just public speculation. Other opinions believe that this is just a mistake on the part of the media department for this award ceremony. But in the end, what made the public more angry was that Grammy did not apologize to the artist or explain the incident of awarding the wrong award. Currently, the audience is still waiting for moves from Grammy and Nicki Minaj.
