{"id":482071,"date":"2019-02-10T22:18:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=792954"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:18:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:18:31","slug":"21-savage-was-noticeably-absent-from-the-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/21-savage-was-noticeably-absent-from-the-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Savage Was Noticeably Absent From The Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One week ago, 21 Savage<\/a> was arrested<\/a> by<\/span> by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying a visa issued more than ten years ago. The Atlanta rapper is originally from the U.K., and he is currently being detained by ICE at the Irwin County Detention Center<\/a> in Georgia. His surprise arrest by immigration officials is likely the biggest story in music, but you wouldn\u2019t know it from tuning into the 61st Grammys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from one blink-and-you\u2019d-miss it reference during an acceptance speech, 21\u2019s story was nowhere to be found during Sunday\u2019s broadcast of Music\u2019s Biggest Night. According to tweets from his manager, no one from the 21 Savage camp attended the Grammys. \u201cWe were given tickets last minute before the show when it no longer mattered,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to his arrest, 21 Savage was set to perform at the Grammys<\/a>. That performance went on as planned Sunday night without him; Post Malone<\/a> performed their Number One collaboration \u201cRockstar\u201d as part of a medley with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, Post made no mention of his imprisoned collaborator, opting instead to cut 21\u2019s verse from the performance. (A publicist reached out to\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>to share a photo of Post in a 21 Savage t-shirt that was not visible during his performance. It\u2019s unclear if this was meant to make a statement.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The silence on 21 Savage\u2019s arrest and detention<\/span> felt even more pronounced given the potential opportunities to bring him up during the televised broadcast. \u201cRockstar,\u201d the song for which he was scheduled to perform, was nominated for Record of the Year. In addition to his scheduled performance with Post Malone, he was also absent from Drake<\/a>\u2019s speech following a win for \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d in the Best Rap Song category. The two collaborated on Drake\u2019s \u201cSneakin\u201d (and Drake famously bought 21 a Ferrari) in 2016, but Drake used his time onstage to criticize the Grammys. Apart from one oblique mention to immigration \u2014 J Balvin appeared during Camila Cabello\u2019s opening set holding a newspaper that read \u201cBuild Bridges Not Walls\u201d \u2014 the awards ceremony was depoliticized.<\/span><\/p>\n

21 is also present on Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cThis Is America,\u201d winner of the Song of the Year \u2014 and the reason for his only onstage mention. Donald Glover did not attend the Grammys, but his\u00a0 co-writer and co-producer on the song,\u00a0Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, gave one of the night\u2019s only public statements about 21 Savage. \u201c<\/span>21 Savage should be here right now,\u201d he said, as walk-off music played.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0Drake Takes Aim at The Grammys in Grammy Acceptance Speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One week ago, 21 Savage was arrested by by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying a visa issued more than ten years ago. The Atlanta rapper is originally from the U.K., and he is currently being detained by ICE at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. His surprise arrest by immigration officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:10:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}