Did Grammy snub Nicki Minaj?

Speculation or pure gossip are flying around that the Grammy had snubbed Nicki Minaj and some other top artistes. Blogs like Perez Hilton carried the news.

“While we were anxiously awaiting the 2016 Grammy Awards nominations early Monday morning, our initial joy quickly soured when we noticed some of our absolute faves were glaringly left off the list.

With Taylor Swift and The Weeknd taking up most of the voters’ attention, some A-Listers like Nicki Minaj, One Direction, and Lana Del Rey were snubbed for no reason!

But we’re not the only ones pissed about the omissions — Directioners are downright livid that their boys weren’t nominated for Made in the A.M., even though Four was actually the album that got snubbed.

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Nicki’s fans had started bashing Grammy noms for the deliberate oversight, until better informed reports started emerging pointing out that Nicki’s songs were actually nominated thrice in the latest Grammy list. Well, it would all be clear in a matter of days or hours.

Guess the fear of Grammy’s legendary snub is the beginning of wisdom. The Grammy noms are known to deliberately omit some big names when it suits them. Mega stars like Sean Comb “Puff Daddy”, R. Kelly, One Direction, Spice Girls, etc are completely ignored by the award team till date despite their huge fandoms and topping the charts.

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