Frank Ocean recently did an interview with The New York Times and he said that the reason he’s not nominated for a Grammy in 2017 for Endless or Blonde because he never actually entered it to make it eligible. Apparently he was trying to send a message that the Grammys don’t do a very good job of honoring people who create music in the same genre as he does

“I think the infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated,” he said. “I’d rather this be my Colin Kaepernick moment for the Grammys than sit there in the audience.”

He also said that he’s not even really a fan of award shows in the first place. Not even just performing at them. “Certain moments were drawbacks for sure. Now I look at things differently, but at the time, yeah. Audiences in excess of five million people, I was always reluctant to do those things except in cases where they had this nostalgic significance to me”.

“Like performing at the VMAs, being tapped to perform at the Grammys—me saying yes to those things had a lot to do with how those things made me feel before I was actually in the business. And just wanting to be rubbing shoulders with those people and being seen at those places. I still was reluctant and sort of skeptical of those things because I questioned whether or not I was prepared”.

Read the whole interview here.

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