Illustration by Miguel Davilla A funny thing happened a few months after Beyoncé's big night at the Grammys in February, when the pop icon was finally able to shake off her album of the year bridesmaid curse with a win for Cowboy Carter and strutted into Nashville's backyard to claim best country album for her multiplatinum genre flex. It was a history-making moment: the first Black woman to ever take home that prize. But in classic Recording Academy fashion, the celebration barely lasted four months before the rule book was rewritten.