DRAKE’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE 2019 GRAMMY AWARDS TRIGGER REACTIONS ON TWITTER
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By Ife Adewole
Drake’s controversial acceptance speech at the 61st Grammy awards attracted reactions from over 480 thousand Twitter users.
The rapper, who won the Grammy award as Best Rap Song ‘God’s Plan’, in his speech used the opportunity to address the discrepancy in the award nominations and awards.
He said, “I want to take this opportunity while I’m up here to just talk to all the kids that are watching this, aspiring to do music.
“All my peers that make music from their heart that do things pure and tell the truth, I wanna let you know we’re playing in an opinion-based sport not a factual-based sport.
“So it’s not the NBA where at the end of the year you’re holding a trophy because you made the right decisions or won the games.
“The point is you have already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you’re a hero in your hometown.
“If there are people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows.
“You don’t need this right here, I promise you that, you already won,” he said, holding up his Grammy.
After his speech, fans all over the world applauded the rapper for saying the truth and referring award shows to be seemingly bias.
Meanwhile, Drakes was cut off while stile giving his acceptance speech for commercials.
@Shaneiso tweeted, “Legendary. We are witnessing the hard beginning of something interesting in the music business.
“Hopefully people can take a lot from these speeches. Those awards don’t validate your creativity and passion.”
@Osascruz tweeted, “Love this #GrammyAwards speech from Drake.”
@Boodaforceghost wrote, “Thank you Drake for questioning what is an artiste’s true worth and the meaning of true success, it’s a shame we couldn’t hear more.”
@TundeGbedo said, “For the first time, I will agree with Drake 100 per cent.”
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