Mathew Knowles Says Jay-Z Grammy Criticism Didn’t Sway Beyonce’s AOTY Win

Mathew Knowles is giving 100% of the credit to Beyoncé for her ‘Album of the Year’ win at the Grammys — saying it has nothing to do with Jay-Z‘s complaints last year about her not already having that gong on her mantel yet.

MK tells TMZ those criticizing Bey’s win and chalking it up to Jay-Z clearly don’t get how the Grammy voting process works — and then goes on to break the whole thing down for us.

Mathew — who’s been a voting member for 17 years and is on the Grammy board that picks the nominated albums — tells us they listen to thousands of songs, including full albums.

So, Mathew makes it clear — Bey’s win was all about her album being the best body of work, not because of Jay-Z’s complaints last year about her breaking records but still missing out on the crème de la crème, Album of the Year.