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Exec Takes Out Full-Page Ad in NYT to Criticize Grammys

4:55 PM PST 2/20/2011 by Jem Aswad, Billboard

Read the full letter, in which Stoute says the Grammys "have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture."

NEW YORK -- Longtime marketing/music exec and hip-hop insider Steve Stoute slammed the Grammys in a full page advertisement appearing in the Styles section of Sunday's New York Times. In it, he criticizes the Grammys, the show's parent organization the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and its president, Neil Portnow, for an "awards show [that] has become a series of hypocrisies and contradictions."

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