Robert Glasper, the mercurial American composer, pianist, and producer acclaimed across the spheres of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and beyond, won his fifth Grammy Award last night, securing the Best R&B Album award for his 2022 project Black Radio III. His name started trending on Twitter soon after, which, maybe naively, I thought might have been because people were thrilled for him. Imagine my disappointment, then, when I clicked through to find wave of hip-hop gossip accounts, each one reposting a series of indignant Instagram Stories from Chris Brown, whose Breezy (Deluxe) lost out to Black Radio III.
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