Beyonce references her Album Of The Year Grammys snub on her new country record Cowboy Carter - after her husband Jay-Z berated the awards
Beyonce has taken aim at the Grammys for repeatedly failing to award her the Album Of The Year prize on her long-awaited country record Cowboy Carter.
The 32-time Grammy winner sent fans into a frenzy when she released the 27-track album on Friday with fans quickly noting her reference to the repeated snubs.
Beyonce has previously been nominated four times in the Album Of The Year category, but has never won the coveted prize.
Her husband Jay-Z publicly berated the Grammys while attending the ceremony in February, with an apprehensive Beyonce watching on.
Beyonce referenced the snub in her song SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN, which featured the lyrics: 'A-O-T-Y, I ain't win (Let's go) / I ain't stung by them / Take that s**t on the chin / Come back and f**k up the pen.'
Beyonce has taken aim at the Grammys for repeatedly failing to award her the Album Of The Year prize on her long-awaited country record Cowboy Carter
Jay-Z publicly berated the Grammys for failing to award his wife the prize, while he accepted the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award for his contribution to the music industry.
He said that there were more important things in life than winning Grammys, noting they were subjective - and pointing out his superstar wife had never won best album.
'I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won Album of the Year,' Jay-Z said. 'So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that. The most Grammys; never won Album of the Year. That doesn't work.'
Jay-Z continued: 'How far we've come from Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff winning their first Grammy in '89 and boycotting because it wasn't televised.
'And then they went to the hotel and watched the Grammys. I didn't even understand. It wasn't a great boycott.'
He said that he then did a similar thing.
'But then '98, I took a page out of their book. I was nominated for Best Rap Album, and DMX had dropped two albums that year. They both were number one — shout out to DMX — and he wasn't nominated at all.
'So I boycotted and I watched the Grammys.
Last month the singer's husband Jay-Z publicly berated the awards for failing to award his wife the coveted prize
Beyonce has previously been nominated four times in the Album Of The Year category, but has never won the coveted prize (pictured at the ceremony last month)
'I'm just saying, we want y'all to get it right. We love y'all. We love y'all. We love y'all. We want y'all to get it right. At least get it close to right.'
He then launched into his critique of the awards, and his condemnation of the failure to recognize his wife.
'Obviously it's subjective because it's music and it's opinion-based,' he said.
Beyonce has also been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 32 of them.
Like her husband, Beyonce has been nominated six times for Album of the Year, but never won.
In 2015, when Beyonce lost out on Album of the Year to Beck, Kanye West pretended to storm the stage in protest.
After the release of Cowboy Carter, fans quickly flooded social media with reactions to the record. Many already claimed the record was the 'album of the year' minutes after it was released. Others dubbed her 'cowgirl Beyonce.'
Many of Beyonce's listeners loved the numerous collaborations on the record, including the one with Miley (born Destiny Hope Cyrus), with one joking 'Destiny Hope and Destiny Child on the same song is history' in reference to Beyonce's former girl group Destiny's Child.
'The way I'm loving these collabs. Beyonce got Post Malone into a country song. We won so hard.'
Dolly's contribution to the record was brought up in many comments, and Beyonce's take on Jolene earned her much praise.
'Damn now Jolene got 2 divas looking for her; We are seeing history being written.'
'Queen Beyonce has arrived; Dolly!!! And Beee!
Her album has also earned rave reviews from critics, with some even declaring that Beyonce could revive the country genre.
