Grammys CEO Responds to Kanye West’s Criticism And Invite Him For A Meeting
Kanye West went on another one of his rants yesterday bu this time, the rapper got a response from the people he was communicating with. West sent a number of tweets demanding for respect from the Recording Academy for himself, his friends and black artists and calling out the CEO by name.
“I would like to sit down with Neil Portnow right now,” he wrote. “I think the Grammys are super important!!! I know so many cool artists whose hearts have been broken by the politics including mine. We need to fix this. … I feel the Grammy awarding system is way off and completely out of touch.”
He then called himself the “most important living artist” and threatened that there would be no show next year if he was not respected. “I don’t want to just fix the awards for me but I want to fix it for Dexter Navy who directed A$AP Rocky’s ‘LSD’ video,” West wrote. “Everybody with any form of taste knows that was the best video of the year!”Neil, please reach out as soon as possible so we can make the Grammys culturally relevant again,” he continued.
“I continue to welcome Kanye, personally, to engage in a direct and productive dialogue about the future of music and the important role that music creators play in shaping that future,” Neil Portnow writes. “Kanye West is a creative pioneer who has been recognized and honored by the Recording Academy time and again,” Portnow told Rolling Stone.
