While accepting a music-industry award on Saturday night, Sean 'Diddy' Combs had some unsparing words for the Recording Academy.
Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton, where the veteran hip-hop producer and record executive received the Recording Academy’s Industry Icon award.
“Truth be told, hip-hop has never been respected by the Grammys. Black music has never been respected by the Grammys to the point that it should be. So right now, this current situation, it’s not a revelation. This thing been going on. “We have the power. We decide what’s hot. If we don’t go, nobody goes. If we don’t support, nobody supports. We control what’s cool. We control what’s hot. We control what your kids listen to, what they dance to.
“And I’m standing here today not to just bash y’all, because as I say, y’all a nonprofit organization. We just need to get it right. I’m here for the artists.
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