{"id":159840,"date":"2026-02-02T04:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:07:17","slug":"kendrick-lamar-breaks-grammys-record-for-most-awarded-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159840\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar breaks Grammys record for most-awarded rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Less than half an hour into the 68th Grammy Awards<\/a>, Kendrick Lamar already made history. <\/p>\n

Lamar became the most-awarded rapper in Grammys history, with 26 total wins. Lamar received three awards during Sunday\u2018s premiere ceremony before the telecast and is up for more categories throughout the night. <\/p>\n

Lamar led nominations<\/a> for this year\u2019s awards show, with nine total. <\/p>\n

He took home the rap album award for \u201cGNX\u201d<\/a> early in the evening, surpassing the record previously held by Jay-Z, who has 25 wins. Lamar also won for rap song for \u201cTV Off,\u201d melodic rap performance for \u201cLuther\u201d and rap performance for Clipse\u2019s \u201cChains & Whips.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hip-hop as usual, man. I\u2019m not good at talking about myself, but I express it through the music. It\u2019s an honor to be here,\u201d Lamar said while accepting the rap album award. \u201cHip-hop is going to always be right here. We are going to be in these suits looking good, having our folks with us. We are going to be having the culture with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Compton-born rapper is still up for major categories, including record of the year, album of the year and song of the year. <\/p>\n

Lamar kicked off 2025 with a Super Bowl halftime performance,<\/a> becoming the first rapper to headline music\u2019s biggest stage as a solo act. <\/p>\n

He swept the top awards last year with his hit \u201cNot Like Us.\u201d<\/a> The song won five awards, including record and song of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than half an hour into the 68th Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar already made history. Lamar became the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6758,77812,77808,77807,46376,28645,48,52,51,47,50,49,77809,77810,330,1869,29159,34366,431,77811,72],"class_list":["post-159840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-award","tag-good-rap-album","tag-grammys-history","tag-grammys-record","tag-jay-z","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-melodic-rap-performance","tag-most-awarded-rapper","tag-music","tag-night","tag-nomination","tag-rap-song","tag-rest","tag-win-total","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}