The 58th Annual Grammy Awards were tonight (February 15) at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST on CBS.
Kendrick Lamar led the field with 11 nominations, including for every Rap category and for Album of the Year with To Pimp a Butterfly.
The Rap categories were announced prior to the national broadcast. Lamar won the awards for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap song for “Alright” and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat for “These Walls.” Besides being nominated for his own music, he was nominated because of his credits on Kanye West’s “All Day.”
During the broadcast, he won Best Rap Album, beating out J. Cole, Dr. Dre, Drake and Nicki Minaj. He was presented the award by Ice Cube and his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Lamar was also awarded “Best Music Video” for his appearance on Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.”
Swift won Best Album for 1989. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won Record of the Year for “Uptown Funk.”
The event featured performances from Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Adele and Lamar, who performed “Blacker the Berry” “Alright” and “Untitled.”
LL Cool J hosted the event for the fifth time.
Below are the 58th Annual Grammy Awards winners in bold and the nominees:
Record Of The Year
“Really Love” – D’Angelo And The Vanguard
“Uptown Funk” – Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
“Thinking Out Loud” – Ed Sheeran
“Blank Space” – Taylor Swift
“Can’t Feel My Face” – The Weeknd
Album Of The Year
Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes
To Pimp A Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
Traveller – Chris Stapleton
1989 – Taylor Swift
Beauty Behind The Madness – The Weeknd
Song Of The Year
“Alright” – Kendrick Lamar
“Blank Space” – Taylor Swift
“Girl Crush” – Little Big Town
“See You Again” – Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth
“Thinking Out Loud” – Ed Sheeran
Best New Artist
Courtney Barnett
James Bay
Sam Hunt
Tori Kelly
Meghan Trainor
Best Rap Performance
“Apparently” – J. Cole
“Back To Back” – Drake
“Trap Queen” – Fetty Wap
“Alright” – Kendrick Lamar
“Truffle Butter” – Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake & Lil Wayne
“All Day” – Kanye West
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
“One Man Can Change The World” – Big Sean Featuring Kanye West & John Legend
“Glory” – Common & John Legend
“Classic Man” – Jidenna Featuring Roman GianArthur
“These Walls” – Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat
“Only” – Nicki Minaj Featuring Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown
Best Rap Song
“All Day” – Kanye West
“Alright” – Kendrick Lamar
“Energy” – Drake
“Glory” – Common & John Legend
“Trap Queen” – Fetty Wap
Best Rap Album
2014 Forest Hills Drive – J. Cole
Compton – Dr. Dre
If You’re Reading This Its Too Late – Drake
To Pimp A Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
The Pinkprint – Nicki Minaj
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Ship To Wreck – Florence & The Machine
Sugar – Maroon 5
Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson f. Bruno Mars
Bad Blood – Taylor Swift f. Kendrick Lamar
See You Again – Wiz Khalifa f. Charlie Puth
Best Dance Recording
Where Are Ü Now – Skrillex and Diplo f. Justin Bieber
We’re All We Need – Above & Beyond f. Zoe Johnston
Go – The Chemical Brothers f. Q-Tip
Never Catch Me – Flying Lotus f. Kendrick Lamar
Runaway (U&I) – Galantis
Best Music Video
Bad Blood – Taylor Swift f. Kendrick Lamar
L$D – A$AP Rocky
I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) – The Dead Weather
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
Freedom – Pharrell
I like Kendrick but come on, “Only” actually deserved Rap/Sung Collaboration. The Grammys are kissing his ass this year.
Your opinion.
Sure, a song about wanting to fuck Nicki Minaj was supposed to win over the most uplifting anthem of the year.. FOH!
Oh shit, I misread that.. But “These Walls” is still way better than “Only”..
He deserves them bitch!
No, Only doesn’t deserve to win anything since it’s a trash song.
Kendricks album hand down the most overrated album of the yr best albums of the yr 1. Scarface 2. K Rino 3. E40 EP 4. Lupe. KL should not be winning sh*t
Oooh, all the Drake fans/OVO trolls are gonna be pissed now..
LMFAO
drake got beat by kendrick in everything
Get off this site with your racist I don’t like anything that makes me feel uncomfortable and hate myself bitch ass!
Act like what? So, you’re saying that 1989 was better than TPAB? You seem mad, eat a snickers.
Damn, Lola. When did you become racist?
Remember how Bruthadee used to hate on Kendrick so hard for putting that white girl Anna Wise on his albums?
Congratulations, phenomenal album.
Let them niggas have them grammys we have them streets – Meek Mill
Best rap performance shulda bn Bac To Bac
Fuck the Grammys now. Except the time they gave Drizzaveli one for Take Care, but fuck them now. They cater to the white crowd. Why else do you think that overrated nigga Kendrick is getting all those awards? I mean, seriously, Alright over the song that ended Meek Mill’s career, or To Pimp a Butterfly over the album that dropped by surprise and still went gold the first week? Fuck that. The BET Awards are more legit now. At least they recognize Drake’s genius and not slurp Kendrick’s dick every second they get. Drizzaveli didn’t lose, he got robbed! #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife #FuckTheGrammys
LOL you are so hurt right now. So you were cool with the Grammys when they award your favorites, but when they don’t, you’re like “Eff the Grammys.” Drake didn’t get robbed, he just doesn’t deserve any awards. Back To Back doesn’t deserve to win over Alright, the new black national anthem and IYRTITL doesn’t deserve to win over the most important rap records of 2015. The BET Awards recognize Kendrick as well. BTW, you think Kendrick winning awards is them catering to a white crowd, even though he makes the most pro-black music of today. If they were truly catering to white tastes, they would’ve gave Drake every award he’s nominated for since he’s half-white.
Views from da bitch aka 6 goddess is a fraud & a good actor…Aubrey will win an oscar cuz he’s a real good actor…
No, he’s wrong and so are you. It has nothing to do with country bias, Kendrick just makes better music (it’s funny you say that the Grammys are biased about American artists when non-American artists, the British especially, win all the time). And Kendrick’s msuic gets WAY more than one or two listens, otherwise, people wouldn’t be talking about it years later. And people are still listening to both TPAB and GKMC in public, you just don’t go out much, so don’t plat that “he doesn’t get repeated spins” shit. Look, Drake is a good artist, but don’t pretend like he’s the Jesus of music, not everything he releases is great or memorable (I damn sure can’t recite his songs line-by-line, so don’t speak for others). So what if Taylor Swift likes his music? She also likes Drake’s music as well. Anything that’s popular, she likes it; it doesn’t change a damn thing about what Kendrick does. BTW, Drake NEVER gave Kendrick and The Weeknd their first mainstream platforms, they were already bound to blow up and Drake just rode their waves along with other artists, Aubrey isn’t running the game at all, he’s just a wave rider. And Taylor Swift fans don’t care about Kendrick at all, they’re fake fans who didn’t even listen to a single song or album of his. You seem to have a bias, bashing Kendrick everytime you give him praise and only having nice things to say about Drake. You keep contradicting yourself and make you look like a fake fan. You need to fix that.
LOL I LOVE IT! king Kendrick-5, fake drake-0. the riaa doesn’t award those who don’t write their own material, steals material from others without giving recognition to the original artist…overall cb4 frauds. those who don’t believe me ask milli vanilli. go cry yourself to sleep while jerking off to your drake poster BEEYOTCH! #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
How can a nigga run the rap game when he doesn’t even WRITE THE SHIT??!!? His fuckin audience is females 15-25…. Drake is a GROUP of niggas writing and shit and Aubrey is just the face. Quentin Miller runs the rap game if that’s the case. I can’t believe you niggas respect fake shit.
everything you saying is kinda true but guess what? Drake is Canadian and the Grammys is American and mainstream. Its the same as to why Obama chose Kendrick over Obama. They have to. Of course, USA gone be biased to their own artists. And yes…Kendrick is great and deserving but Drake may never win another grammy even though we know secretly even his haters can recite Drake songs line by line while their “deep thought-provoking” Kendrick Lamar album gets one or two listens. Im glad Kendrick won these awards but lets stop pretending people actually listen to his last record cuz go anywhere? they hardly ever do and you cant be revolutionary when white folk like Taylor Swift is your biggest fan – lets be real. I find it funny how Drake gave both Kendrick and Weeknd their first mainstream platforms and now they dominate the Grammys. Just more proof Drake runs the game. kendrick fans (all respect to Kendrick) but you cant insult Drake saying he mainstream and Kendrick is not when Kendrick is adored Taylor Swift fans. Get real
I hope he has fun with all the gold diggers. Kendrick has the chance to a true relationship with a intelligent woman. 🙂
kendrick needed taylor swift to get recogniition. With out the taylor swift feature this bum would be an unknown no body to the masses. He should be happy people like drake and taylor swift helped him be more known with their features.
You whatever you are gay! Now stfu!
We all know that had drake didn’t help him out early in his career, he would still be some low life gangster bum
Funny because Kendrick was already recognized without Taylor Swift and she was nowhere to be seen on TPAB. Nobody helped Kendrick to be known to the masses and he doesn’t need anyone.
No, you’re wrong. Drake didn’t help Kendrick out at all, he was already bound to blow up.
Once views drops and does a mill in a week everyone will forget this gremlin ever existed. Views will dominate and drake will make every rapper irrelevant just like he always does every year. Learn to accept the fact that drake owns the rap game and he is bigger than all your favourite rappers in 2016.
And when that doesn’t happen, you’ll cry yourself to sleep while staring at your Drake poster.
drake runs the rap game but can’t win one award…time to fire his team of ghostwriters and start from scratch. hip hop is about authenticity and there is nothing authentic about fake drake from others writing his material to him stealing verses and beats from others. Bieber has more authenticity and credibility than fake drake ever will. #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Drake doesn’t come close too running Rap he hardly raps on his biggest songs he’s a pop artist he’s talented but too say he runs rap is like Saying The Weeknd runs rap . Drake stays relevant by sucking off all the hot new rappers getting on remixes of anything hot Kendrick does it on his own no ghost writers not 10000 remixes no auto tune singing just lyrics and beat
That woman was certainly not intelligent.
And how would you know if this woman was intelligent or not. You look really childish bashing someone’s high school sweetheart, who isn’t even that ugly. All you’re doing is exposing your jealousy.
My nigga J.cole got robbed big time
Congrats to Kdot good to see real Hiphop winning. To the Drake fans haters an thoses who are indifferent lets just be happy that these are two artist that dont pretend to be hard or promote alot of negativity in their music.
Listen to Drake song called Enemy and get back to me about negativity… You niggas is crazy
I meant Energy
Kendrick is wack jcole is wack drake is wack this is what white people call hip hop u brainwashed motherfuckers
Drake fanboys day of mourning
J. Cole doesn’t need a Grammy Bruh Bruhs. He doesn’t act like a clown like all these other artists. Jermaine is a boss. He doesn’t need to show up at the circus Grammy Awards
Drake n J Cole robbed Bac to Bac lol
Kendrick is the white media’s little uncle-Tom puppet. Congrats, now someone mash a banana in this little chimp’s face!
drake wanted to be a whiny bitch after Obama chose Kendrick over him in a battle and call out Obama on that garbage song…meek mill killz him with war pain…then fake drake wins 0 grammys on presidents day! LOL LOVE IT! #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Haha, fake a$$ pop Drake. About time real hiphop got shine at the Grammys. Shout out to Kendrick/TDE! 5 Grams
Why did Taylor Swift win? Her album was ass.
Unlike her body, which is zero ass.
He deserve it congrats bro.
Do the Grammys only know 4 rap artists….. Enough of this nonsense. Everyone should stop reporting on it and stop watching it.
King Kunta..Well Deserve . . West Coast