Rory Farrell, host of the Rory & Mal podcast, appears to be under scrutiny. According to a report by Balleralert, the controversy erupted after a few of Farrell’s old tweets (now X posts) resurfaced on social media. As seen in those posts, he made several comments about Black Women, one of which was about Beyoncé. Per his old tweet from 2012, he wrote:“Like the hoodrat name Beyonce... RT @GStar_Greg. son.. they are way worse baby names than blue ivy Imaoo...”In another tweet, he wrote:“How much weave was sacrificed for King Bey today?” View this post on Instagram Instagram PostAccording to a report by TMZ, on November 12, Rory and his other podcast hosts participated in a session on X Spaces, where he received criticism from netizens about his past comments. Many even accused him of taking down some of the old posts. Rory Farrell said he would not apologize for anyone who claimed that he had demeaned Black Women. He mentioned:“I apologize for everything else but don’t ever say that I called Black Women ugly or roaches or anything that you all have been trying to put on me because I never said that.”Rory Farrell talks about Grammy categories being splitDuring a November 2025 episode of the podcast, Rory Farrell discussed the splitting of categories for the Grammys. He said:“There was one specific category that was being split. Grammys will announce nominations next week following Beyonce's historic win as the first black woman to win best country album. The category has been retired and split into two. Best contemporary country album in parenthesis black dominated and best traditional country album in parenthesis white dominated.”He clarified:“I'm sure the Grammys didn't put black dominated and white dominated in parenthesis. This is from Pop Fusion HQ.”Rory Farrell asked if Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter would have been put in the “contemporary country” category if the timing had been different. He said the album sounded very traditional and not modern at all. He mentioned that some artists experiment with new styles, but that wasn’t the case here. He felt that Black country artists were doing exceptionally well, and that was why people tried to separate them into different categories. Mal opined:“We got to split it up. It's not going to be fair. Here we come taking back our sound first of all. We got to get into that. It's our music.”Despite everything, Rory Farrell said he was happy about categories being split under R&B and other genres. He felt these bifurcations gave artists a chance to be recognised.