Jay-Z launches into excoriating attack on the Grammys for NEVER giving wife Beyonce Album of the Year – despite record 32 other wins – and says ‘some nominees will be robbed tonight – and some should never have been nominated’

Jay-Z launches into

 

Global Impact Award for his contribution to the music industry.

With his 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy standing on stage beside him, and wife Beyonce looking on from their table in the audience, dressed in just-off-the-catwalk Louis Vuitton byHe said that there were more important things in life than winning Grammys, noting they were subjective – and pointing out his superstar wife had never won best album.

 

 

Jay-Z, 54, is seen with his 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy on stage at the Grammy Awards

‘I don’t want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won Album of the Year,’ Jay-Z said. ‘So even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work. Think about that. The most Grammys; never won Album of the Year. That doesn’t work.’The camera cut to Beyonce, looking slightly apprehensive in the audience.

Jay-Z has been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 24 of them. Six of his nominations have been for Album of the Year.

Beyonce has also been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 32 of them.

Like her husband, Beyonce has been nominated six times for Album of the Year, but never won.

In 2015, when Beyonce lost out on Album of the Year to Beck, Kanye West pretended to storm the stage in protest.

 

The moment drew parallels to West’s actions in 2009, when he famously interrupted Swift as she accepted the Best Female Video award at the MTV Video Music Awards, telling her: ‘Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you. … but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.’