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Jack Antonoff, Cher, Kendrick Lamar, Scott Bridgeway and Kamasi Washington support the 68th Grammy Awards

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Key Takeaways:

• Kendrick Lamar now holds the chronicle for plenty of Grammy Award wins by a rapper, surpassing JAY-Z with 27 awards.
• His 2026 wins encompass Most attention-grabbing Rap Album for GNX and File of the twelve months for “luther” that comprises SZA.
• He emphasized the importance of desirable lyrics and thanked Luther Vandross’ estate for the sample clearance.

The Grammy Awards are turning into an annual event of Kendrick Lamar. After his haul at the 2026 ceremony, the Compton rapper has earned the appreciate of being the rapper with essentially the most Grammys of all time.

Okay. Dot has now sprinted, figuratively, previous JAY-Z. Ahead of Sunday’s (Feb. 1) Grammy Awards presentation, Hov held the title with 25 trophies to his determine. Nonetheless, by the conclude of the evening, the “squabble up” rapper held 27 Grammy Awards.

In February 2025, Lamar picked up five Grammys attributable to his Drake-dissing break “Not Love Us.” The excessive acclaim his 2024 album GNX purchased furthermore made it a stable wager that Lamar had a shot at passing JAY-Z’s benchmark. When the 2026 Grammy nominations possess been offered support in November 2025, Lamar was once at the high of the leaderboard with 9 nods. Particularly, Clipse, Doechii and Tyler, The Creator every earned five nominations of their own.

Lamar already had three novel Grammy Awards earlier than the are living ceremony aired. He obtained within the classes for Most attention-grabbing Rap Efficiency for his guest verse on Clipse’s “Chains & Whips,” Most attention-grabbing Melodic Rap Efficiency for “luther,” that comprises SZA, and Most attention-grabbing Rap Song for “tv off.”

It was once for the duration of the televised fragment that the “Cash Trees” artist asserted himself in a pair of major classes. His GNX project obtained Most attention-grabbing Rap Album, beating entries look after Tyler’s CHROMAKOPIA and Clipse’s Let God Form Em Out. In a while within the evening, he picked up File of the twelve months for “luther,” which bested songs from Coarse Bunny (“DtMF”), Doechii (“Apprehension”) and Lady Gaga (“Abracadabra”).

While accepting his File of the twelve months award, Lamar talked about that fragment of getting Luther Vandross’ estate to clear the tune’s spend of the “If This World Had been Mine” sample was once that the lyrics possess no curse words. “Being ready to place our vocals [on] it, it proves that we possess been quite worthy to be upright as sizable as them participants,” Lamar said, relating to Vandross and Cheryl Lynn. “They granted us that. They said, ‘No cursing, although. Can no longer curse on it.’”

Lamar was once furthermore up for the Album of the twelve months. Nonetheless, he ended up dropping to Coarse Bunny‘s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.