{"id":386118,"date":"2026-01-23T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386118\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:24:09","slug":"clipse-pharrell-williams-to-perform-at-2026-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386118\/","title":{"rendered":"Clipse, Pharrell Williams to Perform at 2026 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI like to think that we slammed the door on ageism in hip-hop,\u201d Malice recently told us<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/clipse\/\" id=\"auto-tag_clipse\" data-tag=\"clipse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clipse<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pharrell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pharrell\" data-tag=\"pharrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pharrell<\/a> Williams are linking up once again, this time to perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammy-nominations-2026-full-list-1235461536\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Grammys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 68th annual ceremony will take place on Feb. 1, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crypto.com<\/a>\u00a0Arena in Los Angeles. Clipse \u2014 Pusha T and Malice \u2014 and Pharrell join the list of performers that include<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/katseye-olivia-dean-grammys-best-new-artist-performance-1235502422\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Best New Artist nominees <\/a>Olivia Dean, Addison Rae, the Mar\u00edas, Katseye, Leon Thomas, Lola Young, Sombr, and Alex Warren. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sabrina-carpenter-new-album-mans-best-friend-fame-1235359144\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, who received six nominations, will also perform. <\/p>\n<p>Clipse\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/clipse-let-god-sort-em-out-pusha-malice-1235371027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Let God Sort Em Out<\/a>, their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/clipse-pusha-t-malice-new-album-interview-1235076985\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first collaboration<\/a> since 2009, was produced by Pharrell. The LP, which Rolling Stone named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-2025-1235466292\/clipse-let-god-sort-em-out-1235466315\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sixth best album<\/a> of 2025, is nominated for five Grammys: Album of the Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/2026-grammys-best-rap-album-predictions-kendrick-lamar-1235478560\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Rap Album<\/a>, Best Rap Performance for \u201cChains &amp; Whips,\u201d Best Rap Song for \u201cThe Birds Don\u2019t Sing,\u201d and Best Music Video for \u201cSo Be It.\u201d (The latter is a diss track to Travis Scott, which the rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/travis-scott-responds-pusha-t-drake-pharrell-1235502499\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to in his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/travis-scott-utopia-fatherhood-next-album-1235500436\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone cover<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tClipse\u2019s nominations marked their first nods in 22 years, following their one nomination for their 2003 Justin Timberlake collaboration, \u201cLike I Love You.\u201d As Pusha recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/clipse-pusha-t-malice-interview-voices-of-the-year-1235460359\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Rolling Stone<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to, first and foremost, how we look at music, and the high level of taste \u2014 and just executing. We\u2019re perfectionists almost to a fault sometimes, but we know what we want, and I think it translated.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMalice added: \u201cI like to think that we slammed the door on ageism in hip-hop. That\u2019s a stigma that probably never should have existed, and hopefully that\u2019s done away with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI like to think that we slammed the door on ageism in hip-hop,\u201d Malice recently told us Clipse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[145919,96,104447,128,145920,43505,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-386118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-clipse","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grammys-2026","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pharrell","13":"tag-pharrell-williams","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}