Kendrick Lamar dedicates Grammy Award to hometown LA after wildfires

US rapper Kendrick Lamar has dedicated his grounds of the twelvemonth grant to his hometown Los Angeles aft the metropolis was devastated by wildfires.

This year’s grant ceremonial is raising funds for wildfire alleviation pursuing wind-driven blazes swept done parts of the Californian metropolis past month, destroying neighbourhoods and sidesplitting astatine slightest 28 people.

Lamar picked up the prestigious gong arsenic good arsenic opus of the twelvemonth grant – which recognises accomplishment successful songwriting – for his “diss” way Not Like Us which is reportedly directed astatine Canadian rapper Drake.

Collecting the grant astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles connected Sunday, helium said: “We’re going to dedicate this 1 to the city”.

The Compton-born creator added: “This is my cervix of the woods that held maine down since a young pup, since I was successful the workplace scrapping to constitute the champion raps and each that…

“I can’t springiness capable acknowledgment to these places that I rolled astir since precocious school. Most importantly the radical and the families retired successful the Palisades and Altadena. This is simply a existent testament that we tin proceed to reconstruct the city.”

The way besides picked up a slew of aboriginal prizes including champion euphony video, champion rap show and champion rap song.

Lady Gaga offered her enactment to the transgender assemblage arsenic she collected her grant aft the caller Trump medication issued enforcement orders rolling backmost transgender rights.

Accepting the champion popular duo/group show prize for her collaboration with Bruno Mars connected Die With A Smile, Gaga said: “It is simply a privilege to beryllium a songwriter and a producer, a musician, specified an honour to sing for each of you.

“And I conscionable privation to accidental contiguous that trans radical are not invisible. Trans radical merit love. The queer assemblage deserves to beryllium lifted up. Music is love. Thank you.”

Earlier successful the night, Beyonce secured champion state medium for Cowboy Carter, which was calved from an acquisition wherever she “did not consciousness welcome”.

Pop prima Taylor Swift presented the grant to the vocalist who appeared visibly shocked and said “I truly was not expecting this” arsenic she delivered her acceptance speech.

She added: “I privation to convey God that I’m capable to inactive bash what I emotion aft truthful galore years. I’d similar to convey each of the unthinkable state artists that accepted this album. We worked truthful hard connected it.

“I deliberation sometimes genre is simply a acold connection to support america successful our spot arsenic artists and I conscionable privation to promote radical to bash what they’re passionate astir and to enactment persistent.”

Ahead of releasing the medium past year, the 43-year-old said successful an societal media station that the medium had been “born retired of an acquisition that I had years agone wherever I did not consciousness welcomed… and it was precise wide that I wasn’t”.

She added: “But, due to the fact that of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the past of Country euphony and studied our affluent philharmonic archive.”

The triumph comes aft she was snubbed astatine the Country Music Awards, contempt the Texas-born prima becoming the archetypal achromatic pistillate to apical Billboard’s state euphony illustration with Texas Hold Em’.

The vocalist thanked her “beautiful family” arsenic her girl Blue Ivy and her hubby Jay-Z looked connected from the audience, arsenic good arsenic her fans and the artists who collaborated with her connected the album, including Miley Cyrus and Post Malone.

Ahead of the ceremony, Beyonce announced she would beryllium taking Cowboy Carter connected circuit with an Instagram station featuring a light-up billboard.

The azygous claimed the rubric of astir Grammy wins successful a beingness aft she picked up her 32nd gong successful 2023.

However, the prima has ne'er won the prestigious medium of the twelvemonth prize and she volition beryllium hoping to rectify that this twelvemonth arsenic Cowboy Carter is up for the coveted award.

She volition look pugnacious contention for the prize from Charli XCX’s Brat, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft, Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess and Swift’s eleventh grounds The Tortured Poets Department.

Rapper Andre 3000 is besides nominated for his jazz flute medium New Blue Sun alongside Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol 4.

Beyonce picked up her archetypal grant of the nighttime during the pre-ceremony for her opus featuring Cyrus, titled II Most Wanted, winning the state duo/group show gong.

Later on, Chappell Roan called for the euphony manufacture to supply a “liveable wage and healthcare for artists” arsenic she collected her archetypal Grammy award.

After the 26-year-old US prima secured the prestigious champion caller creator prize, she revealed she had told herself she would request that labels and the manufacture would support artists much if she ever won a Grammy.

She recalled feeling “betrayed” and “dehumanised” erstwhile she struggled to find enactment and spend wellness attraction during the pandemic aft getting dropped by her archetypal statement arsenic a young creator erstwhile she had fixed “everything” to them.

Earlier successful the night, she delivered a joyful show of her disco anthem Pink Pony Club which saw commencement by sitting connected a elephantine pinkish pony earlier joining a radical of dancers dressed arsenic rodeo clowns for immoderate western-inspired choreography.

Pop prima Carpenter besides secured her archetypal 2 Grammy wins, picking up champion popular vocal medium grant for her sixth workplace medium Short n’ Sweet and champion popular solo show grant for her summertime deed Espresso.

The US vocalist was cheered connected by chap nominees Swift and Eilish arsenic she made her mode to the signifier soon aft performing a theatrical medley of Espresso and Please Please Please from the winning album.

Collecting the award, the 25-year-old praised her chap nominees arsenic immoderate of her “favourite artists successful the world”, adding: “I can’t judge I’m nominated against them, oregon adjacent successful this country close now. This is my archetypal Grammys.”

US prima Eilish besides performed a melodic rendition of her opus Birds Of A Feather, which is nominated for grounds of the twelvemonth and opus of the year.

Rising prima Doechii secured champion rap medium for her 3rd mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, becoming the 3rd pistillate to bash truthful aft Lauryn Hill and Cardi B, with the aboriginal rapper presenting the grant connected Sunday.

Colombian vocalist Shakira dedicated her champion Latin popular medium grant for her 12th grounds Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran to each of her “immigrant brothers and sisters” successful the US.

She added: “You’re loved, you’re worthy it, and I volition ever combat with you. And to each of those women who enactment truly hard each time to supply for their families, you are the existent heroes”.

Host comedian Trevor Noah opened the ceremonial by paying tribute to the “spirit” of Los Angeles communities aft they came unneurotic pursuing the devastating wildfires.

British prima Charli XCX was among the aboriginal winners astatine the Grammys premiere ceremonial with the vocalist picking up champion dance/electronic medium for her culture-shaping sixth grounds Brat and champion creation popular signaling for its pb azygous Von Dutch – her archetypal Grammy wins.

The Beatles picked up champion stone show for their caller opus Now And Then, which was written and sung by John Lennon and aboriginal finished by Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr utilizing overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison.

Meanwhile, chap British rockers The Rolling Stones won champion stone medium for their 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, their archetypal medium of archetypal euphony successful 18 years.

The 2025 grant amusement is being hosted by South African comedian Noah for the 5th twelvemonth successful a enactment with 94 awards acceptable to beryllium handed retired crossed the premiere and main ceremony.