The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Raymond Arroyo Criticizes Beyonce For Winning Best Country Album At The 2025 Grammys

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

Raymond Arroyo Criticizes Beyonce For Winning Best Country Album At The 2025 GrammysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On The Breakfast Club. In the words of Shalomane the God, he's a donkey, brother. He ain't worth a ****ing heart. Ah! Oh, man, Shalomane, you've given Donkey the day to who now? Well Busta Rhymes Donkey of the day for Wednesday February 5th goes to Raymond Arroyo Raymond is an American author journalist and producer who appeared on a Fox this week Fox News to discuss all things Grammys Now let the record show this is one of the best Grammys

I've seen in a long time drop on the clues box for the Grammys this year Personally to me all right to, they got a lot right. Rhapsody winning best melodic rap performance for 3AM with Queen Erykah Badu. Dochi winning best rap album for Alligator, Bites Never Healed, Kendrick Lamar going five for five for the greatest diss record of all time, Not Like Us. And of course, Beyonce winning best country album

and album of the year. Now, there's debates, you know, about all of these people and all of these different awards that were won and who should have won and why I saw people saying Dolce is an industry plant. People think the Grammys gave Kendrick all those awards despite Drake and of course, Beyonce winning best country album was going to piss some people off and Raymond is one of those people because he was on Laura Ingraham show on Fox and he had this to say let's listen. Now what do you make of that legendary country artist Beyonce winning for best country album? I want to put this in some context Laura.

Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys, Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys, Beyonce has 35. How is that possibly commensurate with that talent? I mean come on. And what people don't know about the Grammys is everybody votes in every genre. You can vote in up to 20 genres. So basically Lady Gaga's cat sitter votes for best reggae and best country album. So that's why you get this ridiculous outcome that has nothing to do with the country audience or the country musician. That's not true. Only people in the music industry vote for the Grammys. But you know Raymond if you don't feel Beyonce should win best country album, fine. Okay maybe you thought Post Malone F1 was better. Maybe you thought Laney Wilson whirlwind was better. Maybe you thought Chris Stableton higher was better. I don't know. But for you to sit

up there and attempt to rain on Beyonce's black parade and hate on her for having 35 Grammys is utterly ridiculous. Okay, once again, that's your opinion, but listen to the context of what he said. Dolly Parton has 10 Grammys, Frank Sinatra had 11 Grammys, Beyonce has 35. How does that possibly, what did you say, commensurate with the talent? What did he say? I can't remember the word he used, but basically how does her talent equate to 35 Grammys? Because she's talented, okay? Now you don't have to love Beyonce.

You don't even have to like her music, but one thing you cannot deny is her talent. Okay, Dolly Parton and Frank Sinatra are incredible talents, legends, icon living, well icons, one is living, but neither one of them have been dancing in stiletto since the age of 12, okay? Also, neither one of them are verbs. What do you mean, Uncle Sharla, neither one of them are verbs? Beyonce do you mean? Uncle Charlotte neither one of them are verbs

Beyonce is a verb would it be clear because my mother is an English teacher. She is a proper noun Okay, Beyonce is a proper noun that is often used as a verb You can say various things to people like you ain't Beyonce. Okay to remind folks you're not excellent You're not as fly as you think you are. Okay use it in the Senate. Charlotte I mean, why are you following zero people on Instagram? You not Beyonce, okay? My point is Raymond, Dolly Parton herself has praised Beyonce's work. Dolly Parton is on Cowboy Carter.

Okay, remember what Dolly said about Beyonce on E! News about eight months ago? Listen. Beyonce covering Joe Biden. I know. What are your thoughts on her version? Well I think it was very bold of her but I love what she did to it. I was very proud of her album. I thought she did a great job in country music and I thought it was great and I was just happy she did Jolene. Listen, Raymond,

it's not apples and oranges. Okay you got to dig a little deeper on who is voting for Grammys and how they come to these conclusions And if you mad at the voters now, oh you'd have been pissed off even more back then because you mentioned Frank Sinatra You know the year he had two number one albums He only won one Grammy and was nominated for five and you know what he won for? his album cover His album cover not his music look it up. He won his first Grammy in 1959 for Only the Lonely and he won for the cover. On the cover he was dressed as a sad clown. Raymond you can relate. Alright now mind you in 1959 he

had Only the Lonely and Come Fly With Me. He was nominated for five Grammys including album of the year but he won for his album cover. So knock it off. Raymond the Grammys are the Grammys, including album of the year, but he won for his album cover. So knock it off, Raymond, the Grammys are the Grammys. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong. This year they got it absolutely right. And giving Beyonce 35 Grammys over her career is absolutely the right thing to do. But usually, you know, when you voting yes for Beyonce,

you are getting it right. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. But Miley Cyrus thought Beyonce should have won. I think she knows more about music than the both of us. Raymond all I'm saying man is everybody is entitled to their own opinion but sometimes our opinions can be wrong or sometimes our opinions can be rooted in hate and Raymond as a person who can also be an objective hater I am an objective hater what you are doing is hating. But I saw Whoopi Goldberg get on your ass on your view yesterday and I enjoyed what

she had to say. Let's listen. She earned it. The thing you have, you know, you want to you want to hold on to country music like white people didn't also buy her country album. Come on man. People voted for it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Same with the Oscars. Sit down. Sit down. She told you. Please let Chelsea Handler give Raymond Arroyo the biggest hee haw. Hee haw, hee haw. That is way too much Dan Maynais. Yes it is. Alright. I agree. Well thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, TK Kirkland will be joining us, comedian TK Kirkland, and we're going to talk to him next. So don't go anywhere.

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like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd. I love writing more than anything. You're left alone. You do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school, then write at night. And after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on.

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