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This article made me smile this morning. I love it when these elistest bastards are exposed for the twits they are. Well done Red Suga for standing against the hypocracy.
Rapper refuses award nomination
Last Updated Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:08:27 EST
BATHURST, N.B. - A popular rap musician from New Brunswick's Pabineau First Nation has pulled his name from this year's Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.
Red Suga, also known as Raymond Sewel, was nominated in the rap and hip-hop category, but says he doesn't want to win, because the show's producers won't allow him to perform during the ceremony.
Red Suga's self-titled CD earned an East Coast Music Award nomination last year.
This fall, the aboriginal music awards added the 20 year-old rapper to their list of nominees, but didn't ask him to play during the awards show.
Red Suga's manager and sister, Phyllis Grant, says the producers told her his sound wasn't what they wanted to hear.
"They felt that Red Suga's music didn't really reflect the aboriginal experience of aboriginals today," she said.
Grant says organizers also told her Red Suga should start writing about aboriginal issues, rather than girls.
She says that was too much for her brother: "So he withdrew his submission, and as far as when he speaks to me, he thinks his perspective and the things he writes about are his aboriginal experience today as an aboriginal person in Canada."
Grant says her brother has written a song about his experience with the award show.
Organizers of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards weren't available for comment.
The awards will be handed out Friday in Toronto.
Rapper refuses award nomination
Last Updated Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:08:27 EST
BATHURST, N.B. - A popular rap musician from New Brunswick's Pabineau First Nation has pulled his name from this year's Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.
Red Suga, also known as Raymond Sewel, was nominated in the rap and hip-hop category, but says he doesn't want to win, because the show's producers won't allow him to perform during the ceremony.
Red Suga's self-titled CD earned an East Coast Music Award nomination last year.
This fall, the aboriginal music awards added the 20 year-old rapper to their list of nominees, but didn't ask him to play during the awards show.
Red Suga's manager and sister, Phyllis Grant, says the producers told her his sound wasn't what they wanted to hear.
"They felt that Red Suga's music didn't really reflect the aboriginal experience of aboriginals today," she said.
Grant says organizers also told her Red Suga should start writing about aboriginal issues, rather than girls.
She says that was too much for her brother: "So he withdrew his submission, and as far as when he speaks to me, he thinks his perspective and the things he writes about are his aboriginal experience today as an aboriginal person in Canada."
Grant says her brother has written a song about his experience with the award show.
Organizers of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards weren't available for comment.
The awards will be handed out Friday in Toronto.
