His genre-defining debut “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” which topped countless best-of lists and was deemed a rap classic, was seen as a lock for multiple hip-hop categories and a dark horse for the night’s biggest honor, album of the year. Grammy Awards. The 83 categories were announced this morning, with Kendrick leading the noms with 11 nods. The Weeknd’s solo spot made more sense with the explanation that Lauryn Hill didn’t show, and let’s just say that not feeling one’s face is a theme we all can relate to. Kendrick Lamar gave a passionate, politically charged performance at Monday night’s Grammy Awards. (With maybe a tone or two of Kanye shade, you think?) (Who has been mentioned before on the Grammy Awards when exactly?) A chaotic night with a slew of memorials kept the focus on the music. Hollywood Bowl is back. Members of the #KHive respond with venom when they think someone has dismissed or insulted the vice president. WINNER: Song of the year and pop solo performance. Rapper DMX to be tested for brain function while on life support in a coma. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. All hail Kendrick Lamar, who walked into an already stellar Grammy bash last night and blew it so wide open, the buzz didn’t fade the rest of the night. (Michael Jackson, with his 12 nods in 1984, still holds the all-time record.). WINNER: Rock song, rock performance and alternative music album; NOMINATIONS: Album of the year. LL introduced it by singing everybody’s favorite Lionel proverb: “Life is goooood, wiiiiild and sweeeet.” (Too bad he didn’t add, “I had a dream. Adele’s “All I Ask” showed why live performances are a gamble – the sound got screwed up, which makes sense, since all she did in the past year was pay the tab for every goddamn microphone in the building. This isn’t a memorial montage?” But once he got up for “All Night Long,” everything was easy like Sunday morning. Courtney Barnett dodged a bullet by not winning Best New Artist – Meghan Trainor took the award and cried a lot. Born Earl Simmons, the New York-based rapper and actor was hospitalized after having a heart attack following a drug overdose. Alabama Shakes did “Don’t Wanna Fight,” with Brittany Howard doing a lot more to explain what guitars are for than Tori Kelly and James Bay could. Lamar has donated to Compton-area school districts to support their extracurricular, music and afterschool programs. After a canceled season in 2020 — the first in 98 years — the Bowl will reopen with free shows for healthcare, grocery and other essential workers. (From left: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times; Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times; Matt Sayles / Invision / AP), (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times), (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for A+E Networks), What Beyoncé told Taylor Swift after they both made Grammys history. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rapped speech (while somebody waved a Puerto Rican flag) was one of the night’s peaks. Cal State L.A. now giving vaccines by appointment only after surge in demand. A 58.ª cerimônia anual do Grammy Awards foi realizada no dia 15 de fevereiro de 2016 no Staples Center em Los Angeles, Califórnia. “Alexander Hamilton” was a shockingly fierce moment, especially for those of us finally getting an earful of this Hamilton thing after hearing about it forever from our theater friends. DMX, gravel-voiced hip-hop star who topped charts in late ‘90s, dead at 50. Taylor Swift won three awards, including Album of the Year for 1989, becoming the first female artist to win Album of the Year twice as main credited artist. Lamar’s achievement is all the more impressive because he did so with “To Pimp a Butterfly,” a rap album so challenging and musically complex that fans and critics are still chewing on it nearly nine months after its release. “Many of us play rock & roll, but very few of us are rock & roll,” Grohl said in his warm salute to Lemmy. These ideas aren’t entirely new — hip-hop burst with neo-soul influence in the ’90s (see the Roots, Slum Village, Common) as well as in jazz-minded alternative hip-hop with Afrocentric ideologies heard in the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets and De La Soul. of Black Journalists and in 2014 the Advocate featured him in its annual 40 Under 40 list. Kendrick Lamar just shut down the 2016 Grammy Awards stage and nearly everyone in hip-hop is talking about it. They posed together all night like metaphorical gin and juice. Grammys 2016 big winner was Kendrick Lamar, but the chaotic night, with a slew of memorials, kept the focus on the music. Swift won Album of the Year and paused on her way to the podium to embrace Kendrick Lamar before giving a superbly shameless feminist speech. In 2012, Kennedy was named Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Assn. Miguel, presenting Best Rock Song, sounded a little confused why he was giving a speech about Michael Jackson. ... who walked into an already stellar Grammy … Grammy Awards 2016: Kendrick Lamar made history with an unapologetically black album Kendrick Lamar is shown in November at “Kunta’s Groove Session” tour at the Wiltern Theatre. After historic closure, first shows are free for essential workers. In the days leading up to the 2016 Grammy Awards on Monday night (Feb. 15), the issue of race has been at the forefront of the conversation around the ceremony: LL Cool J … Shared with: Derek Ali Matt Schaeffer James Hunt. Halle Berry, Chance the Rapper and Viola Davis are among celebs paying their respects. “Cow is king,” says Junior Varsity singer-songwriter Greg Aram, who was charged with trespassing on April 2 after modifying the Hollywood sign. In the age of #BlackLivesMatter, Lamar (and D’Angelo, who also landed multiple nods, including record of the year) provided the intense, but necessary soundtrack. Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during the 58th Annual Grammy music Awards in Los Angeles Feb. 15, 2016. He was the unquestioned king of the night. Here are 22 picks for weekend culture. The album’s first single, the euphoric, Isley Brothers-sampling single, “i” (which landed him his Grammy award earlier this year) as well as contrasting companion “u,” deftly explores the struggles of black self-love and the “survivor’s remorse” of making it out of the hood. UC Riverside has high share of underserved students. The Lionel jam also had the best audience sing-along shots of the night: George Clinton sang along to “Brick House,” while Dave Grohl got his fiesta-forever on to to “All Night Long.”. It was a blasphemous mess, yet that’s just what made it a worthy Bowie tribute. Politicians dread the sting of #KHive, the fervent online fans of Kamala Harris. He also threw in a very gracious mention of the other recently deceased Motorhead warrior, Philthy Animal Taylor, and quoted Lemmy’s wise words: “The pleasure is to play.” The tribute featured the Hollywood Vampires: Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry, GNR’s Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. Weaving together free jazz, Parliament-Funkadelic era funk, spoken word, slam poetry and live instrumentation and lyrics that looked inward and outward at issues like fame and depression, politics, race, class and beyond. NOMINATIONS: Rap performance, rap/sung collaboration, rap song and rap album, NOMINATIONS: Pop duo/group performance, pop vocal album, rock performance and rock song, Nominations: Rap performance, rap/sung collaboration and rap album. DMX rapped, and lived, with a ferocity unmatched in the annals of hip-hop. He ended by debuting a new song, his final close-ups in stark white light (very Bowie circa the Station to Station tour) with jittery camera angles to match the fury of his voice, with a line about Trayvon Martin: “On Feburary 26th I lost my life, too.” The final image onscreen: a map of Africa labelled “Compton.” Not a soul watching this was imagining a single dragon. Kendrick Lamar is shown in November at “Kunta’s Groove Session” tour at the Wiltern Theatre. The rap star dominated music for a five-year stretch and his unmistakable growl became synonymous with New York’s grit and grime. The rapper/songwriter was nominated for album of the year for "To Pimp a Butterfly" and song of the year for "Alright." American rapper Kendrick Lamar has won 160 awards from 399 nominations, including 13 … 2019 Winner Grammy: Best Rap Performance. I had an awesome dream.”) Demi Lovato did right by “Hello,” though John Legend is too nice for the bitchiness of “Easy” – where was Mike Patton? George Floyd’s Body Is On Trial For Its Own Murder, DMX, Rapper Who Blended Aggressive Menace With Emotional Sincerity, Dead at 50, How Young Is Too Young on OnlyFans? Kesha weighed in on Caitlyn Jenner’s “Masked Singer” rendition of her hit “Tik Tok,” and the pop star’s caption revealed she is officially not a fan. NOMINATIONS: Record of the year, album of the year. Next to “i” the album’s other big radio hit was “King Kunta,” which took its name from a rebellious slave in “Roots.” However, that same quality may be the very thing that may scare them away when it comes time to complete their final ballot. Win or lose, though, Lamar has made rap history, even if the inspiration came from the darker moments in America’s history. – and Tyrese’s “Brick House” was stuck in hour six of a Long Island wedding reception. Kendrick was the highlight of an awesomely chaotic Grammy show – the only thing missing was live footage of Adele beating the sound guy to a bloody pulp. Taylor Swift began with an excellent “Out of the Woods,” also looking very Bowie in an astronette glitter suit, as if she was heading to a party in space, though she got right back down to business in the front row, snuggling with Selena Gomez. After grabbing up five of his 11 Grammy nominations on … After grabbing up five of his 11 Grammy nominations on Monday night (Feb. 15), Kendrick Lamar delivered rousing renditions of "The Blacker The Berry" and "Alright" off his Grammy-nominated sophomore studio effort To Pimp a Butterfly . But it was worth it to see her horrified look during her technical difficulties. With politically charged renditions of “The Blacker The Berry” and “Alright,” the Compton rapper — who took home five trophies including best rap album for his sophomore studio album To Pimp A Butterfly — wore chains alongside dancers before hosting an on-stage bonfire at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. Not a second of Ornette Coleman’s music all night, a very strange oversight. After a funereal first two hours, rapper Kendrick Lamar blew the roof off the Grammy awards in Los Angeles with a high-octane performance of three songs songs from his … Pitbull did the final medley with Sofia Vergara dressed as a taxi, although the moment Thicke appeared, the producers desperately ran the credits and pulled the plug. At the 56th Grammy Awards last year, the narrative surrounding Kendrick Lamar was nothing short of front-runner status. But amid the chorus of praise, came thoughtful discussion on the album’s themes — as well as its intended audience. The nominations for 2016’s Grammy awards have been announced with Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar shortlisted for seven awards each – … A sandwich improves every hike, and in L.A., you can almost always find one not far from the other. So many memorial tributes – Bonnie Raitt did her guitar homage to B. Best Song Written for Visual Media Black Panther ... 2016 Winner Grammy: Best Rap Album. Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during the 58th Annual Grammy music Awards in Los Angeles Feb. 15, 2016. / You hate my people, your plan is to terminate my culture / You’re … evil / I want you to recognize that I’m a proud monkey,” he raps. A cerimônia reconhece as melhores gravações, composições e artistas do ano por elegibilidade, que ocorreu entre 1 de outubro de 2014 e 30 de setembro de 2015. His performance began in a jail cell with “The Blacker The Berry,” as another prisoner played sax, then blew up into “Alright” with pyro and African dancers. WINNER: R&B song and R&B album; NOMINATIONS: Record of the year. King along with Gary Clark Jr. and Chris Stapleton. It’s very likely that this difficulty is what enticed Grammy voters. Stevie Wonder honored the late great Maurice White by singing Earth, Wind & Fire’s “That’s the Way of the World” a cappella (with a group called Pentatonix, who I guess are a thing). Kendrick Lamar has a stranglehold on music's biggest night. Video Exclusives: Kendrick Lamar We want to hear from you! WINNER: Album of the year, pop vocal album and music video; NOMINATED: Record of the year, song of the year, pop solo performance, pop duo/group performance. Adele, David Bowie, Grammys 2016, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd. Review: A principled stand, a bonanza for Swifties and a shrug from us: Taylor Swift’s made-over ‘Fearless’, The first in a series of promised re-recordings of her catalog, the re-release of ‘Fearless’ comes on the heels of ‘Evermore’ and the Grammy-winning ‘Folklore.’, A huge digital art show will light up DTLA buildings. WINNER: rap album, rap performance, rap song, rap/sung collaboration, and music video; NOMINATED: album of the year, song of the year. The Eagles paid a very unsentimental deadpan tribute to Glenn Frey with “Take It Easy” with Jackson Browne, though nobody can step to Joe Walsh, who might be the Grammys’ favorite person. He is also the author of “Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap.”, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg and other celebs salute DMX: He ‘meant so much to so many’. (As she explained afterward, “Shit happens.”) She deserved a do-over – too bad she didn’t bumrush the Gaga Bowie tribute to ad-lib a version of “Life On Mars?”. Taylor Swift And Kendrick Lamar Lead 2016 Grammy Awards : The Record The 58th annual awards brought forth a lot of winners, but no sweeps. UC Riverside has high proportions of low-income, first generation and underrepresented minority students. The Southern rap legend won the GRAMMY award for his fifth studio album, Release Therapy, which came out in September 2006 on Disturbing tha Peace/Def Jam. Upon its release, the album was instantly acclaimed. DMX, hospitalized and comatose after suffering a heart attack late last week, is set to undergo tests Wednesday to determine the functionality of his brain. Regé-Jean Page rises above ‘Krypton’ casting controversy: ‘We still fly’. The ideas are tough, the lyrics as fiery as they are deeply complex and the instrumentation is heavy and often scattered. The most controversial moment of the night? (As Alice said on the red carpet, “It was either this or the Muppets.”) The Vampires did the inevitable “Ace of Spades” and nothing can kill that song, except maybe Robin Thicke joining in, which somehow fortunately didn’t happen. Faculty members say the campus is not getting its fair share of funding. B. Gaga evoked the spirit of his immortal 1975 TV duet with Cher, where they took the same irreverent approach to a crazed oldies medley. Click through the gallery to see some of the top Grammys 2016 winners and nominees including Taylor Swift, the Weeknd and Ed Sheeran. Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and the Weekend are up for the top prizes at the 2016 Grammy Awards.. Kendrick Lamar led the winners with five trophies, including Best Rap Album for To Pimp a Butterfly. For more music news follow me on Twitter: @gerrickkennedy, Gerrick D. Kennedy is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. However, less than two years after that controversial snub, the Compton-born emcee has made Grammy history. Ever since LL Cool J took over as host, it’s become the only award show that clicks every year. Although he didn’t win the coveted Album of the Year (that went to Taylor Swift), the Compton emcee won 5 awards including Best … Stevie did his beloved “the envelope’s in braille” gag, and hey, bless him for that. Our weekend picks also include drive-in opera, an in-person screening of “Singin’ in the Rain” and a dance party with BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors. Kendrick Lamar, Bilal, Anna the Wise and Thundercat won for "These Walls" ... 2016 06:19 PM Advertisement. The right sandwich for 22 different hikes in L.A. A hike is a good excuse to eat a sandwich. Alabama Shakes also won three including Best Alternative Music Album for Sound & Color. NOMINATIONS: New artist and country album, NOMINATIONS: R&B performance and R&B album, FULL COVERAGE: Grammy Awards | Complete list of nominees. Meet the band that defaced the Hollywood sign with a painting of a cow. Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy nominations with 11 nods, while Taylor and The Weeknd got seven nominations each. Adele, Kendrick Lamar to perform at Grammy Awards 2016 January 20, 2016 / 9:02 AM / AP NEW YORK -- Hello, it's Adele , and she's performing at next month's Grammy Awards. It might not be a stretch to call Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammys performance one of the most powerful in live television history. Arts & Entertainment 2016 Grammy Awards: Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar lead; see full results Taylor Swift won three Grammy Awards, including Album … He covered music and pop culture from 2009 to 2019. He died on Friday at 50. Kendrick Lamar swept up 11 nominations for the 2016 Grammy Awards. The 58th Grammy Awards air live Monday at 8 … Grammy Awards 2016: Kendrick Lamar and other picks Our Grammy Awards picks for 2016 include Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Courtney Barnett, Miguel and "Uptown Funk." The Lionel Richie homage happened on a very 1985 set with a giant neon pastel Lionel face, which is how every stage set should be decorated. WINNER: Country solo performance, country album; NOMINATIONS: Album of the year, country song. And as for the side of Bowie that Gaga didn’t have time to cover – the raging, intense, visionary, dangerous, fearless side – you could just go back and re-watch Kendrick. It wisely took the emphasis off the actual trophies, which nobody over the age of 11 cares about. The whole Hamilton-to-Kendrick block was such a rush, nothing could ruin it – not even the fact that Seth MacFarland was inexplicably allowed to talk in the middle. They figured out the secret: skipping the whole “giving out awards” part of an awards show, to focus on live music. Earning 11 nominations — including two in the major races, album and song of the year — Lamar is the most-nominated artist heading into February’s ceremony. (Way down in the fine print, the Grammys gave out an award for Best Rock Album – apparently Muse are still at it.) (Who can forget him jamming with Paul McCartney to Side Two of Abbey Road in 2012?) For the 58th GRAMMY Awards in 2016, Lamar shot a short film with The Recording Academy celebrating his hometown of Compton and his GRAMMY-winning song, "Alright." Behind the dance-hall bounce of “The Blacker the Berry” lies a raging exploration of the disregard of black life and his own hypocrisy. Make sure to check out The Times’ complete Grammys coverage. But funding gap prompts equity debate. Lionel sat in the audience listening to other people do his songs, with a look on his face that said, “Wait, they know I’m actually here, right? Grammy Awards 2016: Kendrick Lamar sweeps rap category; Taylor Swift wins album of the year Taylor Swift accepts the Grammy for the album of the year during the 58th annual Grammy Awards in … The album is far more challenging than anything on radio — or any rap album among this year’s nomination class — but it’s also far more interesting than anything out there. “To Pimp a Butterfly” ignored much of a traditional framework. TikTok, make it stop: Kesha reacts to Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘Masked Singer’ performance. Shared with: Jay Rock (artist) ... Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake . While “good kid, m.A.A.d city” was a brilliant concept record that traced Lamar’s coming of age in gang-and-drug infested Compton, much of it conformed to the mores of a classic hip-hop album (beats that flipped from atmospheric to bouncy, masterfully poetic lyrics, ace guest collaborations). Unlike his peers in mainstream rap — records by J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Dr. Dre will compete with him in the rap album category — Lamar’s latest is a difficult listen that requires multiple listens in order to digest. As the deaths at the hands of law enforcement in Baltimore, Cleveland, Staten Island and elsewhere have reignited the ongoing debate over the use of lethal force disproportionally against blacks by law enforcement, Lamar’s album — much like that of D’Angelo’s muscular “Black Messiah” — was unapologetic in its blackness, speaking directly, and exclusively, to a black audience. 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Gaga’s Bowie tribute, which began with her in Aladdin Sane close-up, doing a brief snippet of “Space Oddity.” Then she began a hectic medley of Bowie songs with Nile Rodgers, rushing through nine or 10 of the man’s hits, sometimes doing little more than singing the title. The 2016 Grammy Awards are finally here and the big talk is centered on who will take home the golden gramophone in each category. But Lamar went home empty-handed, eclipsed in rap categories by pop-minded Seattle hip-hop outliers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Kendrick Lamar Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have definitely heard about Kendrick Lamar’s epic performance at The 58th Grammy Awards. A writer for Jezebel waxed about the album’s “overwhelming blackness”; Slate wondered how white listeners should approach the record; the Verge heralded Lamar as “Black America’s poet laureate”; and Fader dubbed the album “emotionally draining” and “critic-proof,” even asking, “How do you assess something that is not addressed to you?”, And just last month hip-hop magazine Complex incited an online fervor among rap fans when it revisited the complexities of the album and asked a very polarizing question: “Why did everyone claim to enjoy Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’?”.
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