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Jack Antonoff, Cher, Kendrick Lamar, Scott Bridgeway and Kamasi Washington attend the 68th Grammy Awards
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Key Takeaways:
- Kendrick Lamar now holds the document for many Grammy Award wins by a rapper, surpassing JAY-Z with 27 awards.
- His 2026 wins embody Greatest Rap Album for GNX and File of the 12 months for “luther” that includes SZA.
- He emphasised the significance of fresh lyrics and thanked Luther Vandross’ property for the pattern clearance.
The Grammy Awards are turning into an annual celebration of Kendrick Lamar. After his haul on the 2026 ceremony, the Compton rapper has earned the excellence of being the rapper with essentially the most Grammys of all time.
Okay. Dot has now sprinted, figuratively, previous JAY-Z. Previous to Sunday’s (Feb. 1) Grammy Awards presentation, Hov held the title with 25 trophies to his title. Nonetheless, by the tip of the night, the “squabble up” rapper held 27 Grammy Awards.
In February 2025, Lamar picked up 5 Grammys due to his Drake-dissing smash “Not Like Us.” The important acclaim his 2024 album GNX obtained additionally made it a protected wager that Lamar had a shot at passing JAY-Z’s benchmark. When the 2026 Grammy nominations have been introduced again in November 2025, Lamar was on the high of the leaderboard with 9 nods. Notably, Clipse, Doechii and Tyler, The Creator every earned 5 nominations of their very own.
Lamar already had three new Grammy Awards earlier than the stay ceremony aired. He received within the classes for Greatest Rap Efficiency for his visitor verse on Clipse’s “Chains & Whips,” Greatest Melodic Rap Efficiency for “luther,” that includes SZA, and Greatest Rap Music for “television off.”
It was through the televised portion that the “Cash Bushes” artist asserted himself in a pair of main classes. His GNX mission received Greatest Rap Album, beating entries like Tyler’s CHROMAKOPIA and Clipse’s Let God Kind Em Out. In a while within the night, he picked up File of the 12 months for “luther,” which bested songs from Dangerous Bunny (“DtMF”), Doechii (“Nervousness”) and Woman Gaga (“Abracadabra”).
Whereas accepting his File of the 12 months award, Lamar talked about that a part of getting Luther Vandross’ property to clear the track’s use of the “If This World Had been Mine” pattern was that the lyrics comprise no curse phrases. “Having the ability to put our vocals [on] it, it proves that we have been considerably worthy to be simply as nice as them people,” Lamar mentioned, referring to Vandross and Cheryl Lynn. “They granted us that. They mentioned, ‘No cursing, although. Cannot curse on it.’”
Lamar was additionally up for the Album of the 12 months. Nonetheless, he ended up shedding to Dangerous Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.