Fans were perplexed to learn that Drake’s “Hotline Bling” hadn’t received a Grammy nomination, but the mystery “snubbing” seems to be as simple as a lapsed deadline. Apparently, Cash Money Records just forgot to submit the track for consideration (Consequence of Sound via Hits Daily Double). The artist received five other nominations, so we hope no intern gets into too much trouble over the mistake.
Cash Money Says Whoops
Liz Wood
Liz Wood is a writer and critic living in Cape Cod. She was a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a member of the NBCC 2023 and 2024 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.