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  • VIDEO: Kanye West pees on his Grammy Award, says ‘I won’t stop’

    VIDEO: Kanye West pees on his Grammy Award, says ‘I won’t stop’

    American rapper, Kanye West in a tirade, dropped one of his Grammy Awards in the toilet and pees on it.

    According to him, by peeing he was freeing himself from contracts with Universal Media Group and his publisher, Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

    An irate Kanye went on a tirade on Twitter, posting screenshots of his contracts, in over 100 tweets.

    He also shared a video that shows a Grammy Award inside of a toilet bowl and someone, presumably West, aiming a stream of urine at the trophy.

    Watch the video below:

    https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1306280073209589760?s=20

     

    So far, Kanye has won 21 Grammy Awards in the past but is clearly upset about something. Prior to the pissing video, he had posted a lot of his thoughts.

    Read below:

    ”I’m not putting no more music out till I’m done with my contract with Sony and Universal,” he tweeted Monday. “On God … in Jesus name … come and get me.”

    “I need to see everybody’s contracts at Universal and Sony … I’m not gonna watch my people be enslaved,” West said in another tweet. “I’m putting my life on the line for my people.”

    https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1306286641141620737?s=20

    “When you sign a music deal you sign away your rights. Without the masters, you can’t do anything with your own music. Someone else controls where it’s played and when it’s played. Artists have nothing accept the fame, touring and merch,”

    “We’ve gotten comfortable with not having what we deserve … they allow us to have a little money from touring get some gold chains some alcohol some girls and fake numbers that feed our egos … but we don’t own our masters,”

    “Everyone please cover me in prayer … I AM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND UNIVERSAL won’t TELL ME WHAT MY MASTERS COST BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CAN AFFORD THEM … BLACK MASTERS MATTER,” he wrote amid a slew of other tweets.

  • Nigerian Afro beat singer Yemi Alade up for Grammy Award consideration

    Nigerian Afro beat singer Yemi Alade up for Grammy Award consideration

    Nigerian afro beat singer, Yemi Alade, has been put into consideration for Grammy Award 2019.

    The singer, who recently dropped her anticipated album ‘Woman of Steel’, took to her Instagram account to celebrate the great news as she aims to move her musical career to global stage.

    “We are up for Grammy Award consideration. Reaching out to all voting members @recordingacademy to consider my Album ‘Woman of Steel’ for Best World Music Album.

    “This has been an incredible project and I would love to celebrate it with all of you.

    “#Grammy 2019 #Grammy Awards#WorldMusicGrammy@recordingacademy#fyc#womanofsteel#yemialade,” she wrote.

    The singer, who is also a songwriter, was being considered for a Grammy Award due to the fact that she has acquired over a million global streams.

    Also, for being the first afro beat female to have over 100 million views on a single video which is her hit single ‘Johnny’

    The singer has several landmark achievements, which include BET, MTV African Music Award and MOBO awards as well as changing the narratives with her music outside the shores of Africa.

    She was recently listed as one of the most influential people in Africa in 2018, as she is being introduced as ‘Mama Africa’.

    Her 2013 single Johnny, with over 100 million views is still the most viewed video by any African artiste on YouTube six years after its release.

    Alade is the only female Afro beat artiste with this record without any collaboration.

  • Grammys 2019: Seun Kuti loses category to Soweto Gospel Choir

    Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti has lost his first hope of clinching a Grammy award.

    The performer who attended the event with his wife was nominated in the best world music album category.

    Kuti, alongside Fatoumata Diawara, Bombino and Yiddish Glory, lost to South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir.

    The 61st Recording Academy award ceremony took place on Sunday at Staples Centre, Los Angeles, California.

    Seun Kuti, 36, was nominated alongside the Egypt 80 band for his ‘Black Times’ album.

    Following his nomination, he had said: “I really hope we will also win. This album is my best work. Just like my shows, I make sure that my last album has to be my best album.”

    The ‘Black Times’ album was released in March and it earned him his first ever entry on the Billboard music charts.

    Seun was one of the performers at Sunday’s showpiece, taking the stage at the prelude event ahead of the main ceremony.

    Femi Kuti, his older brother, was nominated for the Grammys four times, but failed to win in 2003, 2010, 2012 and in 2014.

    The Soweto Gospel Choir is the most successful African group in Grammy award history.