Editing Juno Awards (section)

==Criticism==
The Juno Awards have received criticism from several Canadian artists.

===Rascalz===
In 1998, the [[Rascalz]] album ''[[Cash Crop (album)|Cash Crop]]'' was nominated for [[Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year|Best Rap Recording]]. Due to [[Canadian hip hop]]'s limited commercial notability, the rap award had never been presented during the main Juno ceremony, instead being relegated to the non-televised technical awards ceremony during the previous evening.

This fact had previously been criticized for creating a barrier to the commercial visibility of Canadian hip hop. Rascalz, however, alleged that [[racism]] was a factor in the award's disadvantageous scheduling, and became the first Canadian hip hop group to explicitly ''decline'' the award on that basis.<ref name="citizen">[http://www.octopusmediaink.com/CitizenHipHop.html "Kinder, gentler rap, eh? Canadians hip-hop onto centre stage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022104623/http://www.octopusmediaink.com/CitizenHipHop.html |date=22 October 2008 }}, ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', March 7, 1999.</ref>

Their move sparked considerable media debate about the state of Canadian hip hop. As a result of the controversy, the Juno Awards moved the rap category to the main ceremony the following year.

===Matthew Good===
[[Matthew Good]] has won four Juno Awards during his career, but has not attended the ceremonies in any of the years he won. In 2009, he criticized the awards for not promoting Canadian music at the grassroots level, saying, "When it ... isn't kind of this weekend when the Canadian music industry pretends that it's ... not just marketing warehouses for the United States, then sure, I'll be a part of it."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/no-desire-to-celebrate-junos-says-musician-matthew-good-1.791022 |title='No desire to' celebrate Junos, says musician Matthew Good |website=cbc.ca |access-date=27 April 2018|date=March 23, 2009}}</ref>

===Kardinal Offishall===
At the [[Juno Awards of 2006|2006 Juno Awards]], [[Kardinal Offishall]] stated that he would not attend the Junos anymore. "I'm not going to be the Juno's monkey no more, I'm not coming back any more." Offishall cited Canadian hip-hop's low profile at that year's awards as the catalyst for his decision. Offishall further stated, "Really, to me it's really atrocious what they do to hip-hop in this country and what they do for the artists... I just feel like the token hip-hop artist from Canada. For urban music in this country, I mean, not only was hip-hop not televised, but also reggae and R&B; to me, it's sickening." Offishall also criticized the Juno Awards for having the American group [[The Black Eyed Peas]] perform at that year's ceremony. "I just had enough. They had me perform last night and give away the award — to me it's all a farce, I really can't put up with it anymore. It's not even that it's embarrassing, it's just disappointing. It doesn't matter what you do in this country, for me anyway, they don't recognize what I do. It's just a bunch of garbage so I won't be a part of it anymore."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/04/0307.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415080142/http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/04/0307.cfm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=15 April 2006|title=Kardinal Offishall To Boycott Future Junos|publisher=[[Chart Attack]] |access-date=22 February 2019}}</ref> Despite this, Offishall performed at the [[Juno Awards of 2021|2021]] and [[Juno Awards of 2023|2023 Juno Awards]].