I hate to break it to y'all but (as usual) Puffy is FULL OF SHIT. He's a former National Trustee of the same Academy he's now criticizing and he had no issue cosigning the shenanigans when his artists were getting nominations and winning. The current national Chairman of the Board is 72yo jazz *LEGEND* Harvey Mason from Foreplay, and current trustees include Paul Wall and Rico Love as well as Terri Lynn Carrington, Lalah Hathaway and several other non-performing Black industry execs. I know as fact that the Atlanta Chapter's Board of Governors is majority hip hop oriented - JFly is the current President and Jermaine Dupri was President for at least 10 years.
The Grammys even created a special nomination review committees for the rap categories in 2018 to safeguard the music’s integrity and to serve as additional checks and balances. The change allowed rising acts to earn nominations over veteran performers who seemed to get nominated no matter what they released. Also to help guard against potentially embarrassing wins such as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis beating Kendrick Lamar for best rap album in 2014.
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