Mr Vegas recently chimed in on why incarcerated Dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel doesn’t have a Grammy Award to his name.
Speaking on Damian Marley’s controversial 2018 win for “Best Reggae Album”, Vegas, whose given name is Clifford Smith said that Bob Marley had put in the work and now his children are great musicians in their own right, “These people [The Marley’s] are musicians people,” he said. “And Stephen Marley is the one who worked closely with Jr. Gong.”
“So hear how Grammy thing work now people because many of you don’t understand,” Mr. Vegas added. “You might see a Lee Scratch Perry win the Grammy or you might see a Burning Spear win the Grammy and you get upset, but you also have to understand that it’s not just a good song from Jamaica that we know and we like that those people on the committee are going to like or are going to think is as great as what we think.”
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Mr. Vegas continued by saying Vybz Kartel would have gotten several nominations already if the Grammys were base on popularity and not music quality, “You have to understand that these people, some of these [committee members] were musicians and are still musicians,” he said. “So when they listen to a record they are listening for things that me and you are not listening for, for example the mixing quality. Because if we are dealing with popularity for the Grammy’s then Vybz Kartel should’ve been nominated.”
“Vybz Kartel is the only dancehall artiste outside of Charly Black, but you know Vybz Kartel one of the biggest dancehall artistes and he was the only one with a crossover song last year,” Mr. Vegas added. “So if we are talking about popularity and who we like then Vybz Kartel should’ve been nominated.”
