Recently, the 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony took place with the participation of many world-famous stars. This is an award announced annually to honor outstanding individuals and musical products of the year.

However, right in the first announced categories, an incident occurred. After the 2024 Grammys announced that Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice won the ‘Rap Song of the Year’ award, the Organizing Committee hastily changed the announcement and admitted to making a mistake.

On the official Grammy Twitter page, they deleted the line announcing Nicki Minaj receiving the award and changed it to Killer Mike with the song ‘Scientists & Engineers’ featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane.

It is known that Nicki Minaj has received 12 Grammy nominations but has never won. This female rapper’s failure to win an award made her fans angry. Currently, the keyword #Scammys has reached the top trending keywords on Twitter.

A part of Nicki’s fans suspected the results were rigged. They also expressed their dissatisfaction that the Organizing Committee of the 2024 Grammy Awards has not apologized to Nicki or explained the incident of announcing the wrong award. The female rapper’s side has not yet responded to the incident.

The incident reminded fans of the mistaken awarding of prizes and crowns at the 2017 Oscars and the 2015 Miss Universe contest. According to some opinions, this is believed to be a trick by the Organizing Committee to increase the number of viewers of the show. go up. While others believe that this may just be an unexpected mistake by the Organizing Committee.

Remember, in 2015, MC Steve Harvey received heavy criticism from the public when he announced the wrong name of the winner at the Miss Universe 2015 contest. Many people thought that this was a script by the Organizing Committee. The noisy incident shocked world public opinion and caused the competition’s Organizing Committee to be criticized for a long time.

In 2017, the Oscars also made a similar mistake when announcing the wrong winner in the most important category – Best Picture. They announced ‘La La Land’ as the best movie of the year but then the real winner was revised to be ‘Moonlight’.

The person who defeated Nicki Minaj in the ‘Rap Song of the Year’ category, Killer Mike, also had an unexpected problem. Not long after celebrating his 3 wins at the 2024 Grammys, he was arrested by the police and taken away from the awards ceremony. Currently, the reason Killer Mike was arrested has not been revealed.

However, according to some sources, representatives of the awards ceremony’s organizing committee have contacted the representative of rapper Killer Mike to reassure them that the incident is nothing serious, with a high possibility that rapper Killer Mike will soon be released. Free range and no major issues to worry about.

The Grammy Awards took place for the first time in 1959. This is a music award organized by the US National Academy of Arts and Sciences, to honor artists who have made outstanding contributions to the music industry. .

The 66th awards ceremony was hosted by comedian Trevor Noah. This year, three new awards were added including Outstanding Pop Dance Performance, Outstanding African Music Performance and Best ‘Alternative Jazz’ Album.

The 2024 Grammy Awards is recognized as an award honoring women after many years of “ignoring” female artists. Many of the main categories of this year’s season focus on women, with the presence of talented female stars such as Taylor Swift, SZA, Olivia Rodrigo.

In prestigious categories of top concern such as Album of the Year (belonging to Taylor Swift) or Song of the Year, out of 8 nominated names, up to 7 works belong to female artists. At the same time, according to the statistical list of the most nominated artists at Grammy 2024, women also account for three-quarters.

Professor Kristin Lieb, who specializes in entertainment, music, and gender marketing, shared: “Female pop stars not only dominate the fun on the red carpet, but also dominate all conversation topics. story at the Grammy Awards. This is an important change. They are increasingly being judged on their talent and charisma rather than their appearance or outfits.”