Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, beating out J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint and Dr. Dre’s Compton.
His performance started with him walking out in shackles through a dirty jail house the Compton native, and was accompanied by background dancers. Then he started with “The Blacker The Berry”, highlighting an unfair imbalance of African Americans currently imprisoned in jails across America. He then moved on to “Alright” which was very strong and got everyone going.
During his acceptance speech, Lamar thanked his family, God and his crew at Top Dawg Entertainment, all with a huge grin appropriately plastered on his face.
“This is for hip hop,” he said, dedicated the award to his beloved genre. “This is for Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle, this is for Illmatic, this is for Nas. We will live forever — believe that.”
Best Rap Album was the first to be televised on the night and was presented by Ice Cube and his son, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Speaking of Ice Cube he didn't even stay for the whole night he left. Come on Ice Cube!
Kendrick got 11 nominations, the rapper has already taken home awards for Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Best Music Video. So it's all good.
Here a few snippets of his performance last night.
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