{"id":442152,"date":"2026-01-28T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:28:10","slug":"sevyn-streeter-says-kendrick-lamar-should-win-grammy-for-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442152\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevyn Streeter Says Kendrick Lamar Should Win Grammy for Album of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/da4a40f918d541f5a534973782aec3d0_md.jpg\" alt=\"sevyn-streeter-kal-01-27-2026\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/sevyn-streeter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sevyn Streeter<\/a> is hyped for the Grammy Awards kicking off Sunday &#8230; and she told us who she thinks should win Album of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage at the She Ready Foundation event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills Monday, Sevyn told us, &#8220;My vote is with Kendrick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sevyn cautioned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kendrick-lamar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Lamar <\/a>does have some stiff competition &#8212; with big names like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bad-bunny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/justin-bieber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/sabrina-carpenter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, Clipse, Leon Thomas III, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tyler-the-creator\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler, The Creator<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lady-gaga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Gaga<\/a> &#8212; but Sevyn points to cultural impact &#8230; and if that has anything to do with it, Kung Fu Kenny should be a shoo-in.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She explained, &#8220;Kendrick had the most insane year. He had everybody saying &#8216;They not like us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251001_119aaecdff8a4e268e8db947b82bef00\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:2e858fea-d584-464a-9cef-af49bd02f114\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/119aaecdff8a4e268e8db947b82bef00_md.jpg\" alt=\"2025 - Kendrick Lamar\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if Kendrick doesn&#8217;t win? Sevyn says no one should throw a fit.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;It Won&#8217;t Stop&#8221; singer told us, &#8220;I think people should calm down in general. I think we all are gonna have our favorites that we&#8217;re gonna root for &#8230; Queen B should&#8217;ve got her Album of the Year award ages ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250203_7f78e0b0ee534c0996c8df6b01820211\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:2e858fea-d584-464a-9cef-af49bd02f114\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7f78e0b0ee534c0996c8df6b01820211_md.jpg\" alt=\"beyonce getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sevyn says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/beyonce-knowles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, thankfully, won for &#8220;Cowboy Carter,&#8221; but reiterates that if Beyonc\u00e9 had to wait all that time, then everybody else should chill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna hear nobody else complain,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZ.com Sevyn Streeter is hyped for the Grammy Awards kicking off Sunday &#8230; and she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-442152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}