Nicki Minaj, Azealia Banks And Tinashe Think They Were Snubbed By The MTV VMAs
Nominations for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were announced this morning (July 21) with Taylor Swift leading the pack. She was nominated in nine categories including Video Of The Year for “Blood Blood.” That category also features Beyonce’s “7/11,” Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” and Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” The contenders are all quite predictable and, with the exception of Queen Bey and K. Dot, perhaps a little undeserving.
Nicki Minaj certainly feels that way. The rapper was seething that her record-breaking “Anaconda” visual was relegated to the Best Female Video category, tweeting: “If I was a different ‘kind’ of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well.” She then summed up the video’s cultural impact and concluded: “When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination.”
The “Only” hitmaker wasn’t the only artist expressing dissatisfaction with the nominations on social media. “All my videos deserve VMas and my album deserves a Grammy but I’ll never get one because America doesn’t like opinionated black women,” Azealia Banks chimed in. “Poor me.” Tinashe was similarly miffed about “All Hands On Deck” being snubbed: “Let em sleep. I ain’t tripping let em rest in peace.” See their tweets below.
Nicki’s Twitter commentary:
Hey guys @MTV thank you for my nominations. 😘😘😘 Did Feeling Myself miss the deadline or…?
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July 21, 2015
If I was a different “kind” of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well. 😊😊😊
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July 21, 2015
Ellen did her own anaconda video and did the #choreo lol. Remember her doing that kick 😩. Even mtv did a post on the choreo @MTV remember?
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July 21, 2015
U couldn’t go on social media w/o seeing ppl doing the cover art, choreo, outfits for Halloween…an impact like that & no VOTY nomination?
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July 21, 2015
When the “other” girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July 21, 2015
Azealia thinks all her videos deserves VMAs:
All my videos deserve VMas and my album deserves a Grammy but I’ll never get one because America doesn’t like opinionated black women.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 21, 2015
Poor Me.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 21, 2015
Tinashe was kept it cryptic:
…let em sleep. I ain’t tripping let em rest in peace 💀
— Tinashe (@Tinashe) July 21, 2015
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