From the NY Times:
The word is the music, marketing, and branding executive and business partner to Jay Z paid $40k to make this statement.
Here are some quotes from his interview in The Hollywood Reporter discussing his discontent with the award show:
Stoute: Well hip hop had been shut out for a very long time. The Grammys were so late on hip hop as an art form and they wouldn’t give it on-air camera time for many, many years.
…wanna know how out of touch they are? The photo they used for Jay-Z’s Record of the Year nomination, it’s 15 years old. That picture is from Reasonable Doubt, his first album in 1996 when Jay-Z looks 12!
Click here to read Stout’s open letter to NARAS (the organization responsible for awards):
