Kanye West said Saturday night he won’t attend the Grammy Awards if Frank Ocean doesn’t get nominated.
“I’ll tell you this right now,” the rapper said during a concert in Oakland, “if his album is not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys.
“As artists, we’ve got to come together to fight the bulls**t.”
Billboard reported last week that Ocean’s albums Blonde and Endless were not submitted for Grammy consideration even though they were released before the Sept. 30 deadline.
Apparently, West doesn’t believe that excludes Ocean from being nominated.
At Saturday’s concert, he alleged that several years ago the Grammys “secretly changed something” because they wanted Lady Gaga to perform on the show, even though she hadn’t been nominated.
Grammy nominations will be announced on Dec. 8.