Yeah, when you continuously snub the best performers (due to racism) for decades and decades and decades, and they finally decided they've had enough that they boycott it, including many of the artists, nominated and not, that's what happens.
Why do you think the ratings tanked this year OP?
I can tell you are not a musician, nor able to understand the decline of the industry as a whole. Once upon a time, I looked forward to the Grammys with such artists being nominated and winning like Dionne Warwick, Earth, Wind, & Fire (7 time winner), George Benson, Wynton Marsalis (who won
TWO Grammys in 1984 for both classical and jazz artist), Luther Vandross, etc. And that's not counting white artists like Herb Alpert, Hall & Oates, Chuck Mangione, etc. etc. So take your accusations and shove them up your racist ass!
It's about the absence of
REAL talent. The music industry as a whole has gone down the crapper since at least the mid-2000s. Reason being, nobody wants to put in the work and effort to learn music the proper way when you have YouTube and a smart phone. And yes, there is a proper way to learn music.