Let the venting begin. After the winners of the 56th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, R&B fans raced to Twitter to share their opinions with their followers.
Overall, it seems like R&B fans were not pleased with the winners. Many felt that certain artists were snubbed (i.e. Tamar Braxton), while others questioned why some artists were on the ticket to begin with (i.e. Rihanna).
Surprisingly, Tamar Braxton and Fantasia — the artists who led with the most nominations in the R&B categories — did not win any awards tonight.
See some of the reactions from R&B fans below.
RT if you think @TamarBraxtonHer deserved to win a #Grammy award tonight.
— Rated R&B (@RatedRnB) January 26, 2014
@TamarBraxtonHer had three Grammy nods but won nothing. A bit surprised considering "Love and War" was a true R&B album/song. Robbed.
— José (@JoseInBK) January 27, 2014
Rihanna definitely shouldn't have won over Tamar. Tamar's album was better imo.
— kennedy. (@HelloKennedi) January 26, 2014
Who even purchased Alicia Keys' album????????? Ya'll are trash @TheGRAMMYs
— Nēss. (@nessluvsthekids) January 27, 2014
I can't believe it… all the success Fantasia's album has had, she didn't win a grammy!
— . (@WarrenCatrel) January 27, 2014
Tamar got RAPED this year by The #Grammys! And it's so disrespectful to R&B music that EVERY category was announced before the show.
— Gerren Keith Gaynor (@MrGerrenalist) January 27, 2014
I'm so beyond happy that Gary Clark Jr. won a grammy! But why did Alicia Keys beat out John Legend……I can't. His album is flawless.
— Shay Berry (@Shayberry12) January 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/Donovon_Nelson/status/427654832371949568
Speaking of snubs… Electric Lady by Janelle Monae got lowkey snubbed from at least R&B nominee
— hanktwotimes (@HennGriffey813) January 27, 2014
I FUCKIN CANNOT AT TAMAR'S GETTING SNUBBED SO HARD! GRAMMY'S ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE EVER!
— Christian (@christianm_86) January 26, 2014
https://twitter.com/MoniNextDoor/status/427664410207731712
https://twitter.com/debonieenge/status/427662918293786624
Justin Timberlake has been generally snubbed but so far won best R&B song for "Pusher Love Girl," best music video ("Suit and Tie") #GRAMMYs
— Roger Catlin (@rcatlin) January 27, 2014
WOW @robinthicke got snubbed for every award this year and he had that massive record smh #GRAMMYs i know Marvin Gaye family is happy
— Zach S (@YeahImFamous) January 27, 2014
Tamar and TGT and Fantasia got snubbed #Grammys
— AC (@idacrist1na) January 26, 2014
I didnt like the idea that Jazz, Neo Soul & R&B, and Contemporary R&B was put in the same category.
Janelle Monae’s album was released AFTER the cut-off date therefore she was not eligible to be nominated this year. People get all worked up for shit they don’t even know about.
tamar got snubbed love and war was # 1 for so long people still singing the hell out of that song and it’s been out for a year but kenrick lamar got snubbed too buthe shut that grammy performance down these 2 artist don’t even need grammys to validate their talent go check out tamar singing at the PEOPLE pre grammy party