AceShowbiz - Any award show must have had its part in presenting controversial win and the Grammys are not innocent in this case. In 2015, the show shocked viewers by handing out Album of the Year to Beck instead of Beyonce and later in 2017, the "Formation" singer suffered another loss in the category to Adele. But the biggest upset was perhaps when Kendrick Lamar lost to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for the Best Rap Album in 2013. While Macklemore admitted that Lamar "got robbed" and the latter accepted the loss with a big heart, saying that "not everyone gets that shot," many attributed such controversial wins to racial bias.

Analyzing this issue, Anne Powers of NPR accused the 2017 Grammys of systematic racism because Chance the Rapper and Beyonce were the only black artists who won televised awards. Tyler, the Creator raised the issue again after picking up the Best Rap Album trophy for "IGOR" in 2019. "It sucks that whenever we - and I mean guys that look like me - do anything that's genre-bending or that's anything they always put it in a rap or urban category," he spoke frankly backstage when asked about the voting process for the awards. "I don't like that 'urban' word - it's just a politically correct way to say the n-word to me."