“But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you are going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world”.
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“Hip-hop, Ice Cube, this for hip-hop, this for Snoop Dogg …this for Nas”.
The Grammy Awards are given for recordings released from October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015, and are voted on by thousands of members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, who must have credits on at least six commercially released recordings to qualify.
Lamar, who was nominated in 11 categories, won five Grammys: Best Rap Album for “To Pimp A Butterfly;” Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for “Alright;” Best Rap Sung Collaboration for “These Walls”, which also features Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat; and Best Music Video for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”, which he’s featured in. Tributes filled most of the last hour of the show’s telecast, fulfilling the Academy’s long-standing tradition of putting together multigenerational powerhouse nods to deceased artists, in part to pay homage and in part to fill up much of the telecast’s long evening. The visuals overwhelmed the music, though, and Gaga may have been better served not trying to pack too many hits in.
Alabama Shakes won three awards and plenty of respect.
The Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup of Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, performed in their first televised performance and honored Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister.
Alabama Shakes, perhaps fittingly a multiracial band with a multiracial frontwoman, won three awards- Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Alternative Music Album- all based around their acclaimed album Sound & Color.
“This is something you never ever dream of so I’m super grateful for it”, he said. Having to speak to that many people knowing all our friends and family were at home was surreal.
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won two awards for “Uptown Funk”, including record of the year. Said Mars: “We wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for the people dancing to this song”. And her co-producers. Pop singer/songwriter Meghan Trainor was named Best New Artist. Neither could her dad in the audience.
“She was invited by (the Weeknd)”, Portnow said backstage. “I was like, ‘don’t forget anyone and don’t have snot running your face”.
Rihanna was due to perform near the top of the show, but didn’t make it because he doctor ordered her to rest her voice for two days.
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Other winners included D’Angelo, Kirk Franklin, Jason Isbell, Tony Bennett, the cast of Broadway’s smash “Hamilton” and Jeff Bhasker.
