Beyonce’s Dad Reacts to Cowboy Carter Snub at CMA Awards

Beyoncé’s dad, Mathew Knowles, will not be loopy in love with the 2024 CMA Awards voting neighborhood.

After Beyoncé’s nation album, Cowboy Carter, acquired zero nominations for this 12 months’s awards present, Mathew, 72, spoke out and shared his idea as to why the physique of labor didn’t obtain love from voters.

Regardless of Cowboy Carter debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Mathew informed TMZ voters are “exhibiting it nonetheless comes right down to white and Black.”

“There’s extra white folks in America and sadly they don’t vote based mostly on means and achievements,” he defined in an interview printed Monday, September 9. “It’s nonetheless generally a white and Black factor.”

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Whereas Mathew didn’t name CMA voters racist, he mentioned his daughter’s snub “speaks for itself.”

“In America, there’s no accountability for folks not being accepting of different cultures,” he defined.

Us Weekly has reached out to the CMAs for remark.

Again in 2016, Beyoncé, 43, carried out her tune “Daddy Classes” with The Chicks through the fiftieth Annual CMA Awards in Nashville.

A preshow announcement teasing her efficiency sparked requires a CMAs boycott on social media. In response to Billboard, there was additionally no point out of her look on the CMAs web site after the efficiency. (In response to Mathew, the CMAs by no means apologized to Beyoncé after the actual fact.)

Forward of the Cowboy Carter album launch in March, Beyoncé was vocal about her entrance into the nation music style.

On the time, she expressed gratitude for all of the assist on the album’s first singles, “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”

“I really feel honored to be the primary Black girl with the primary single on the Scorching Nation Songs chart,” she wrote through Instagram. “That might not have occurred with out the outpouring of assist from every certainly one of you. My hope is that years from now, the point out of an artist’s race, because it pertains to releasing genres of music, will likely be irrelevant.”

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Beyoncé shared with followers that her album had been “over 5 years within the making” and referenced a previous expertise the place she “didn’t really feel welcomed” on the nation music scene. Whereas she didn’t title the 2016 CMA Awards particularly, followers had been fast to invest that her message referred to the occasion.

Though Beyoncé didn’t obtain any nominations this time round, Shaboozey — who’s featured on Cowboy Carter — is nominated for Greatest New Artist and Single of the Yr for “A Bar Music.”

Morgan Wallen dominated the listing with seven complete nominations.