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Office Hours With Kenya: That AOTY Grammy is staying at the Carter household

🕑 Added 2025-02-07 22:39:19 +0000 UTC

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Issa Smith

Also Beyoncé shoutouts the gays in her extended version of Get Me Bodied. “Snap for the kids snap for the kids snap for the suckas one time” *snap snap snap*

Vicky E

I always found the whole “Gaga inspired beyonce to be more ambitious” crap, to be just blatant lies and another narrative that bey haters use to discredit her. If anything it was the OTHER way around. Gaga has talked extensively in interviews how beyonce basically inspired her to start a music career. How she would watch beyonce music videos and listened to destiny’s child. So if people consider gaga to be this avant grade, gay icon, and she was inspired by beyonce per her own words. Then that means that beyonce was an avant garde gay icon, BEFORE gaga came on the scene.

Vic

"The only her fan- I mean the people who dont like here"No no. You had it right the first time. That's fan behaviour, they're just in denial.

Auriona

Elon musk has our social security numbers 😭😭😭don’t remind me Kenya

Dairus Wilson

beyonce the worst person on earth but yall screaming #that song while Kendrick up in arms with dr.dre...

Favour

I loved Rumours and Her; another song that’s on my list of songs everybody hates but I adore: BONGOS!!! I was in a huuuge Brazilian funk music era and Bongos came at the perfect time for me. Bitches w/o passports were too mad. Island Gyal life is true to me idk bout yalllll

Isis Shackelford

what gets me about kanye’s wife is she’s not the one asking for people to come rescue her, people on the internet have just made up a whole bunch of stuff to assign her victimhood. theres just too much going on for me to try and rescue someone who aint said they drowning

Jina Jackson

“Joanne” was a beautiful project. I liked it too

Natalie W

They said pandering bc she uses the American flag???? I’m so confused by that like they think every time someone uses the American flag it has racist undertones

Jina Jackson

Rumors by Lizzo & Cardi is on my top 10 in my playlist!! I love that song! I can rap it front to back!!

mau

I NEED IT

jay

I was so sat too 😭🙏

beeg

I saw it

Imani Branch

i loved gnx but i was slightly underwhelmed by the performance. i feel like kendrick has so much else from his catalogue to choose from if he wanted to make a political statement. people like to say ‘oh he sacrificed a degree of entertainment to make a political statement’ but my thing is, beyonce made a HUGE statement at the super bowl in 2016 and not an ounce of entertainment was sacrificed.

Rainy Feathers

How about thoughts on Kendrick's grammy sweep? I'm sliding it across the desk because it seems like a side thought for you. We're over here losing it but I want to hear a cooler head's opinion🤔

TaNiyia

And drake ate when she said “Kendrick just opened him mouth, somebody hand him a Grammy right now” and I’m not even a drake fan like that omg

TaNiyia

I’m guessing we’ll get a Patreon episode about the Superbowl. Kendrick has the most annoying fan base, and the halftime show wasn’t good because GnX sucks and you can’t hear him. Putting this in the ethos now

tay w

we need some church organ under the beyoncé and gaga discussion… yeah ✊🏾 abracadabra is like the krabby party slop machine

cybill

I think winning grammys for IOP was the worst thing to happen to Bardi coz she felt she had to legitimize her rap career. Lowkey her gangsta bitch mixtape raps eat everything she's put out after IOP. I think Bardi works best as a reality star who raps rather than a rapper who was formerly a reality TV star. Like she and her label took this too serious. The stars aligned and you caught a lick and it should have been left at that and not try to build a RAP career out of it.

crooks

very excited to hear what you read on vacation (if anything)

Elijah Ritch

KENYA I loved this video!!! Office Hours is such a great concept for a regular series.

Trenton McCray

Rumors was so good it was so 90s Prince the real know !

Ola Ogun

I blame the 2021 AOTY. When Taylor lost everything but AOTY for Folklore. It set a precedent that it doesn’t matter if you lose everything you just have to take home the AOTY.

Jordan

He’s doing this for shock most definitely but I feel like he’s officially lost his mind

Jordan

Offset is driving around NOLA looking for Cardi it’s funny as ever head sticking out the window looking for her and everything

Evette

Yes a part 2 pls!

Cassidy Barnes

You one of the last real stans left iktr

Jessica Davis

Girl! The real tea in this video is the question of Kanye. When did you let Kanye go? I let that fool go the first time during Yeezus era. Tapped back in during life of Pablo. Nothing has changed it was terrible. 😂😂😂

Alissa Jadyn

And Cardi and Pardi already got a song called “Backing it Up” like yall couldn’t come up with nothing else?! “Toot it up” is the best yall got?

Alissa Jadyn

Right on time! Went through the periodic rabbit hole of Beyoncé album history. Was going through the discography of Self Titled and 4 in tears! Like no one is doing it like her

Sunny

The way I SCREAMED HUH!?!?! SO LOUD

carly gill

The FUBU archives is so accurate! I’ve flatlined 😆💀

carly gill

🤣🤣😩

Kasey Kucera

LOVED RUMORS. also maybe im just an Ari stan but always wondered what she would sound like on that song with some whistles in the background

Jai_1

You can just tell that Gaga herself doesn’t even want to do the monster shenanigans anymore. Mama’s grown up, it’s just not in her anymore. The Abracadabra song sounds like a Born This Way reject. I think she’s at her happiest when she’s Hollywood actress/singing Jazz with Tony Bennett Gaga. But the white gays don’t f with that. And honestly neither do I. She’s not Amy Winehouse that’s for sure. Maybe a cute, Nothing Else I Can Say, bubblegum pop moment would’ve been better but idk…I just don’t see it for her anymore.

REDSTICK

KENYA, MOTHER YOU ATE THESE BRAIDS

loveme4me

I completely agree with you on gaga. My thing is idk what type of music she should even do to progress her music and sound. She could go pure hair metal like the 80s or she maybe do a 60s pop rock type sound ala the beatles. I have no idea. Another gripe i have with gaga(im a yapper) is visually and aesthetically gaga only has two modes (maybe 3 if you count the tony bennet) dark leather and chains harkening back to bdsm movements and scenes or the other side with very stripped down singer songwriters at times country esque aesthetic and there’s no in between for her. When visually she could do so much more

Kivone

Abracadabra is atrocious and dated. I loved the Joanne album though. Last one I listened too.

Vic

Playing with each other WHAT????

Diana

Exactly this. When you actually watch award shows regularly you notice a pattern. An aoty hopeful has to win in another major category to have any sort of luck in aoty. The person following Beyoncé (winner of country album) wasn't Billie (winner of zero awards) it was Sabrina (winner of pop album) so this anger is unfounded for multiple reasons.

Shady Tyrell

Her initial success was a fluke. Everything comes out in the wash. Similar to Katy Perry. Beginners luck. They don’t actually have enough talent for longevity.

diamondstarryeyes

not the teen choice. not giving them the good ole surfboard AND BOOT

rudi!!!

she knew not to dress like a rapper from the 2000s in DC lmao

Jayden Brown

“and you can’t say colorism cause everybody was light and bright ashanti was light and bright, kelis is light and bright, ameerie is light and bright, monica is light and bright, toni braxton is light and bright” ijbol

Jayden Brown

baby billie not only lost album of the year but every other category she was nominated in. She wasn’t in second or third for album of the year, she was no where near the podium bc she didn’t even place. Actual grammy voters have come out and said Beyonce was the only artist who did something different than what they always do and that’s why she got the award. Billie stans so delusional they think that depressed whisper singing is gonna win out every year. Billie is the same age as me 23! We getting too old to still be making whisper bedroom pop about teenage love affairs. She needs to grow up quickly

Keith Primas

Beyoncé is where she is BECAUSE she successfully did different genres and knew how to elevate them. If she had stuck to straight r&b she would be trapped in the ether with her classmates (I won’t name names but you know who).

FiFi

is the office still open? YUNG MIAMI AND DABABY ON A SONG TG KENYA. WE NEED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING QUICK!

Lilac S.

Anyone who says Gaga influenced Beyoncé having a gay audience has never met a queer black person ever in life. Idc. And not for nothing, another person who was also doing "weird shit" at the same time as Gaga and had a huge gay audience was Nicki Minaj. To the point where the press tried to say that because Nicki wore wigs, she was biting Gaga. Saying that to say, R.N.B were (and still are) some of the BIGGEST diva names not only in the queer space, but ESPECIALLY black queer spaces. Bey BEEN a gay icon ever since black gay boys wanted to be "the Beyoncé" of the group when playing Destiny's Child. This revisionist shit is lame.

Lilac S.

I think her caring about her sophomore album perception is more of an insecurity thing than a hoping her music is good thing. Liiiiike...it's been almost a decade since IOP. Her Tomorrow 2 verse ate, but she tried to reheat WAP nachos with Bongos and it wasn't giving. The thing is, she could have a good sophomore album if she locked in, but does she *want* to? Idk-

Blank Page

It’s the way I laughed to myself after listening to HMHAS and said Beyonce has nothing to worry about. I knew she was taking it

Lilac S.

This is exactly why I'm not surprised by Cardi's motion. Girl BEEN said that she never wanted to rap seriously, which is her decision, but like...the fans can't be mad when it came from their fav's mouth. 🤷🏽‍♀️

loveme4me

Kenya for this tour you have to show us what you’re wearing

JT

The Weeknd and Kanye are both slightly depraved, pseudo artistic stunt queens that rely on played gimmicks to get people talking and/or up in arms. The only difference is Abel has turned it into his brand in a way Kanye hasn’t done authentically (aka he faked the funk until he couldn’t anymore, whereas able is really, maybe unfortunately, like that)

Diana

It really does always shock me how badly Cardi fumbled the year after WAP. She's so weird bc she's just doing shit which comes across like she doesn't care but clearly does care about her sophomore album being received as well as the first. I don't think it's dropping this year either.

JT

See pero like, Tyler is actually a talented individual that whose artistry and creativity I can actually respect so I’d never make that comparison for his sake. I think y’all are taking The Weeknd comparison as a good thing and it’s not so

loveme4me

The weeknd?! I’m sorry but you gone have to credit tyler not abel. Abel 80s nacho is getting reheated for the last time and the girls arent tuning in as we’re about to go to tour season with the biggest stars. When it comes to creativity again tyler has that kanye essence and tyler has creativity in fashion and in music that kanye had

Korli Bridges

I LOVE when you’re on your Beyoncé tip

ceeitrus

Even the upgrade u video has Beyoncé cosplaying as jayz but dweebs want to tell me all that was the work of lady Gaga…pls be serious, Beyoncé was doing queer coded stuff and been playing with feminine and masculine aesthetics before Gaga was even thought of

Danielle A

What happened to the EGO that got him the Beyoncé feature LMAO (his verse there is so brilliant im sorry)

Danielle A

And the audacity of those Billie fans like she was ever the runner up??? lol ok

TaNiyia

I’ve been commenting #UGLYRACISTHOESMAD and #UGLYWHITEHOESMAD all week

ceeitrus

stanning is so much more enjoyable when you stop gaf about the uglies opinions, I got two main favs, ppl come at them over nonsense on a regular basis, at some point I just had to be like idc and/or that don’t got nun to do wit me lmao

It's a Jar

Omg yes you should do a part 2 for music you like

JT

I put genius in quotations for a reason bc he ain’t giving all that either. But I stand by what I said, Kanye admitted himself he had to teach himself to rap and hold niggas hostage to get them to listen 💀 at least Abel will give me a hook or two, and a performance that will actually wake me up

Jaden Bautista

“playing with each other pussy” OMG 😭

Sabdiel 𐚁

Rumors so tea

Jaden Bautista

fully agree with your thoughts on billie fans. i liked her album but cowboy carter was the best album of 2024 and BEEN the frontrunner for AOTY. Like brat would win AOTY before billie’s album. if anything they should be more mad at the SOTY outcome. And that gaga tweet pissed me off. bey has ALWAYS been innovative BEFORE GAGA debut. and gaga’s new song is old slop. BRING BACK GOOD HOOKS

Taylor Haynes

Or or or or it can really just be the drugs that got to him… The Weeknd isn’t like….

Taylor Haynes

I don’t have anything against Billie either but I clocked her tea earlier.. any given Sunday she wants to dress like Big Pun but I noticed for her Tiny Desk she decided to wear something not from the FUBU archives… interesting interesting

Eric

1) Who got the Grammys? Bey. They can stay mad. 😭 2) Gaga is absolutely phoning it in and it will do cute but they’ll throw it away in 5 months. It will be enough for that album with DWAS tacked on to cross platinum BARELY 3) white gays typically ignore that Beyoncé is THE GAY icon for POC for some reason. She was always seen as the popstar gays love more than someone like Rih cause she was hyper feminine and camp. 4) Kanye is washed bad but the rap game been ignoring it for almost a decade game of name recognition. idgaf about that rant. release that music and go.

Imani Branch

please i’ll never forget when a whole group of black women tried to act like beyonce owed kelis her entire career 😭😭😭 and i ain’t see them talk about kelis SINCE

Eboni Haynes

From a purely black perspective, this is payback for Macklemore vs Kendrick in the rap category back when.

Eboni Haynes

Kenya feeling the nails 💅🏾

Danielle A

Ugh YES Beyoncé doesn’t lift a finger beyond putting out good fucking music and banking on her very mythos and cultural cache. Everyone else needs to scramble and figure out stunts, gimmicks, what game they need to play but Yonce has everyone talking by 1. Breathing 2. Putting out music 3. Performing amen Kenya everything here is just bulls eye from start to finish

JT

My Kanye hot take: Abel/The Weeknd is the artistic “genius” that Kanye convinced everyone he was. He is a loser, from the suburbs (as a bitch from Chicago), and never got quite good enough to eat off making music forever. He had to will himself into being a rapper because that was only way to gain the confidence to be the proud fucking dweeb he is. I think he faked the funk with the “skater boy backpacker” and has since devolved into the idiot he is. Of course hindsight is 20/20 before him leaving Alexis for Amber and jacking her whole fashionista aesthetic was the writing on the wall

kungfu

THERE IT IS

Alivia

It’s dog days at this point 😂 FYI - the Portugal 🇵🇹 visa only has a $900 income requirement for their visa if you need to get out

Kyora Wallace

AND ANOTHER THING! I think in terms of music (especially rap) your pen will always be what saves you and Cardi has said from jump that she entered the space for "a bag". She doesn't write, she doesn't want to try to write, she doesn't want to try anything new or different. I don't think Cardi is interested in making anything that isn't/can't be a club banger

kungfu

he goes from having really insightful pop commentary to saying the most ahistorical shit you ever heard.

kungfu

like just strict out of nowhere. I aint say it deserve grammy but like a lil radio play and tik Tok dance too much?

kungfu

THANK YOU!!!!!!! Pop hooks used to mean something

kungfu

LIKE OMG GAY. YONKA BEEN TRANS ICON.

kungfu

low racial self esteem is also why he acts the way he does

Danielle A

Honestly the most pathetic thing about Kanye’s spree on Twitter is him sucking the shit out of Tate and Musk’s grundle. Kanye, please

Kyora Wallace

I think we just need to bring back IGNORING conspiracy theorists. Beyonce haters are clearly not rooted in any knowledge or sense so we should tell the Billie stans to STFU or ignore them completely

Kenya Moore

if i were a boy! like?

Alivia

It’s called country pop - the new country girls are trying to move into pop. We do know Tierra Kennedy in Nashville, she does writers rounds a lot

Trinity Miller

yess i think ppl were too hard on rumors 😭 Like it was a cute song with cute visuals lets bring back FUN music

kungfu

like it never gave besties why would I care

Rele M

2015 was a trying time for the Beehive, no doubt 😩

Montgomery Price

"we ain't ever seen them out and about playing with each others pussies" PLEASE KENYA

Alivia

My new London activity is clearly Kenya on Patreon. Every time I hop off a plane here I get a new notification I’m here for it.

kungfu

"LYING IN A LANGUAGE I CANT EVEN READ" she ate

Danielle A

DITTO ON THE FUCKING HOOKS ITS JUST LIKE APT’S HOOK. BRAINROT HOOK NOT EAROWRM HOOK

aj◇

The caption got me crying lol. Also the pop pantheon saying Gaga tutored Bey is the most easily disproven thing a person can say if they just listen to both of their music dpmo