Kendrick Lamar is now the most decorated rapper in Grammys history, overtaking one of his hip-hop heroes, JAY-Z.
The Compton kingpin was the night’s biggest winner at the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 1), taking home five trophies including Record of the Year.
That pushes Kendrick’s career total of Grammy wins to 27, putting him two above JAY-Z (25) and one above Kanye West (24).
He is also now fifth on the all-time list of Grammy winners, eight behind current record-holder Beyoncé who has 35.
For the second year in a row, Kendrick — who entered the night with nine nominations — won Record of the Year thanks to his chart-topping “Luther” duet with SZA.
The song, which samples Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn’s 1982 hit “If This World Were Mine,” fended off tough competition from the likes of Bad Bunny’s “DTMF,” Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” and Billie Eilish’s “Wildflower,” which was crowned Song of the Year.
“This is special for me. [Luther Vandross] is one of my favorite artists of all time and they granted us the privilege to do our version of [‘If This World Were Mine’],” Kendrick said while accepting the award.
“When we got that clearance, I promise you we damn near all dropped a tear because we know how much he and Cheryl Lynn poured into that record, and being able to put our vocals over it, it proves that we were somewhat worthy to be just as great as them individuals.”
K.Dot also swept the hip-hop categories, winning Best Rap Album for GNX, Best Rap Song for “TV Off,” Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Luther” and Best Rap Performance for “Chains & Whips,” his blistering, bars-heavy collaboration with the Clipse.
The latter earned Pusha T and Malice their first-ever win at the Grammys, more than 20 years after they were first nominated at the awards.
“It’s hip-hop as usual, man. It’s an honor to be here. Tyler, the Clipse — these is my brothers in this category,” Kendrick said during his Best Rap Album acceptance speech after GNX beat out Tyler, The Creator‘s Chromakopia, the Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out, JID‘s God Does Like Ugly and GloRilla‘s Glorious.
“Every time I tell you this: hip-hop is gon’ always be right here. We gon’ be in these suits, looking good. We gon’ be having our folks with us, we gon’ be having the culture with us.”
Check out the full list of 2026 Grammy winners below.
Best Rap Album
Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse
Glorious – GloRilla
God Does Like Ugly – JID
GNX – Kendrick Lamar 🏆
Chromakopia – Tyler, The Creator
Best Rap Song
“Anxiety” — Doechii
“The Birds Don’t Sing” — Clipse feat. John Legend & Voices of Fire
“Sticky” — Tyler, The Creator feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne
“TGIF” — GloRilla
“TV Off” — Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay 🏆
Best Rap Performance
“Outside” — Cardi B
“Chains & Whips” — Clipse feat. Kendrick Lamar & Pharrell 🏆
“Anxiety” — Doechii
“TV Off” — Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay
“Darling, I” — Tyler, The Creator feat. Teezo Touchdown
Best Melodic Rap Performance
“Proud of Me” — Fridayy feat. Meek Mill
“Wholeheartedly” — JID feat. Ty Dolla $ign & 6LACK
“Luther” — Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA 🏆
“WeMaj” — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon feat. Rapsody
“Somebody Loves Me” — Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR
Album of the Year
Debí Tirar Más Fotos – Bad Bunny 🏆
Swag – Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend – Sabrina Carpenter
Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse
Mayhem – Lady Gaga
GNX – Kendrick Lamar
Mutt – Leon Thomas
Chromakopia – Tyler, The Creator
Song of the Year
“Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
“Anxiety” – Doechii
“APT.” – Rosé & Bruno Mars
“DtMF” – Bad Bunny
“Golden” [From KPop Demon Hunters] – HUNTR/X
“Luther” Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA
“Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
“Wildflower” – Billie Eilish 🏆
Record of the Year
“DtMF” – Bad Bunny
“Manchild” – Sabrina Carpenter
“Anxiety” – Doechii
“Wildflower” – Billie Eilish
“Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
“Luther” – Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA 🏆
“The Subway” – Chappell Roan
“APT.” – Rosé & Bruno Mars
Best New Artist
Olivia Dean 🏆
Katseye
The Marias
Addison Rae
Sombr
Leon Thomas
Alex Warren
Lola Young
Best R&B Album
Beloved — Giveon
Why Not More? — Coco Jones
The Crown — Ledisi
Escape Room — Teyana Taylor
Mutt — Leon Thomas 🏆
Best Progressive R&B Album
Bloom — Durand Bernarr 🏆
Adjust Brightness — Bilal
Love on Digital — Destin Conrad
Access All Areas — Flo
Come as You Are — Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon
Best R&B Song
“Folded” — Kehlani 🏆
“Heart of a Woman” — Summer Walker
“It Depends” — Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller
“Overqualified” — Durand Bernarr
“Yes It Is” — Leon Thomas
Best R&B Performance
“Yukon” – Justin Bieber
“It Depends” – Chris Brown feat. Bryson Tiller
“Folded” – Kehlani 🏆
“Mutt (Live From NPR’s Tiny Desk)” – Leon Thomas
“Heart of a Woman” – Summer Walker
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Here We Are” — Durand Bernarr
“Uptown” — Lalah Hathaway
“Love You Too” — Ledisi
“Crybaby” — SZA
“Vibes Don’t Lie” — Leon Thomas 🏆
Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
Mad Skillz — Words for Days Vol. 1 🏆
Marc Marcel — Black Shaman
Omari Hardwick & Anthony Hamilton — Pages
Queen Sheba — Hurricane in Heels: Healed People Don’t Act Like That
Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends — Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at Treepeople
Best Pop Vocal Album
Swag – Justin Bieber
Man’s Best Friend – Sabrina Carpenter
Something Beautiful – Miley Cyrus
Mayhem – Lady Gaga 🏆
I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) – Teddy Swims
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Daisies” — Justin Bieber
“Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter
“Disease” — Lady Gaga
“The Subway” — Chappell Roan
“Messy” — Lola Young 🏆
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Defying Gravity” – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande 🏆
“Golden” [From KPop Demon Hunters] – HUNTR/X
“Gabriela” – Katseye
“APT.” – Rosé & Bruno Mars
“30 For 30” – SZA feat. Kendrick Lamar
Best Dance Pop Recording
“Bluest Flame” – Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco
“Abracadabra” — Lady Gaga 🏆
“Midnight Sun” – Zara Larsson
“Just Keep Watching” [From F1 The Movie] — Tate McRae
“Illegal” – PinkPantheress
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Eusexua — FKA Twigs 🏆
Ten Days — Fred Again..
Fancy That — PinkPantheress
Inhale / Exhale — Rüfüs Du Sol
Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 — Skrillex
Best Dance/Electronic Recording
“No Cap” — Disclosure & Anderson .Paak
“Victory Lap” — Fred Again.., Skepta, & PlaqueBoyMax
“Space Invader” — KAYTRANADA
“Voltage” — Skrillex
“End of Summer” — Tame Impala 🏆
Best Alternative Music Album
Sable, Fable – Bon Iver
Songs of a Lost World – The Cure 🏆
Don’t Tap the Glass – Tyler, The Creator
Moisturizer – Wet Leg
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams
Best Alternative Music Performance
“Everything Is Peaceful Love” — Bon Iver
“Alone” — The Cure 🏆
“Seein’ Stars” —Turnstile
“Mangetout” — Wet Leg
“Parachute” — Hayley Williams
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Dan Auerbach
Cirkut 🏆
Dijon
Blake Mills
Sounwave
Best Music Video
“Young Lion” — Sade
“Manchild” — Sabrina Carpenter
“So Be It” — Clipse
“Anxiety” — Doechii 🏆
“Love” — OK Go
Best Album Cover
Bad Bunny — Debí Tirar Más Fotos
Djo — The Crux
Perfume Genius — Glory
Tyler, The Creator — Chromakopia 🏆
Wet Leg — Moisturizer
nope…………….. wtf is the grammys a dick swinging contest…??
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Get the fuck off of Drake’s dick already. Bitter ass male groupies like you are still upset over Drake getting his ass whooped in a fight that he started.
drake accused of being a pedophile and the police never got involved i don’t listen to drake and i can tell you where kendrick lamar can go too i just think popular rap music should change up and the grammys should get their shit together and recognise it look at billie eilish ffs she looks like she has anorexia teenage girls will see that and almost kill themselves trying to look like the poor bitch just saying the game gone to hell homey
The people at this show are in the Epatein files not Drake
Anonymous is Ovo’s retarded ass
If it was I’d love to be the measuring stick 😙
Carti was snubbed they didn’t even nominate him and Travis was robbed twice in years prior. The real rappers do not get grammys only the bootlickers like Macklemore, Kendrick, Drake, and Cardi B.
Kanye the only real one and they do not want people like him winning most people can’t even name winners of the grammys. Spoiled rich kids are there tho like Billue Eillish and Sabrina Carpenter
No its propaganda like all the trash these people make attack Trump and ICE ignore everyone is on the Epstein list
It’s a circle jerk
And I love circle jerks
Anonymous is Ovo’s retarded ass
Pusha and Jay should share a cell with Weinstein but Kendrick won’t mention that. Drake has to win the lawsuit then leave UMG
Give it a rest Ovo. Drake isn’t going to fvck you
And drakes lame lawsuit was dismissed by a judge last October
Talking about penises…gay.
Yeah award handed out for being good puppets. Kendrick is not him and not talented just bad hipster rap. Meme rapper.
I’m a butt puppet who enjoys having another man’s hand up my ass.
And Anonymous has overtaken great greg as the gayest n**** on planet earth.
Anonymous is the infamous Drake dickrider, formerly known as Ovo
Glazefest
And I love those 😘
Album came out 2024 not 2025 same with Tyler. Even worse Carti was not nominated but streamer guy was? Carti finally realizes Kendrick and his people played him he was told having Kendrick on the album would get him a Grammy he didn’t even get nominated
No one watches this trash. NBA YoungBoy ran 2025 he did not sumbit for a nomination. Kevin Gates great album same thing. Carti did and should have been nominated not GNX which is a worse version of Diddys Love album also came out 2024 same with Chromokopia not 2025
Carti, Tecca, Ken, Kodak, before that Don Toliver and Big X were snubbed Yeat as well. These awards are run by out of touch old people just looking to push cringe politics. That’s why they love Kendrick and Eminem.
Carti was snubbed I Am Music should have won he needs to diss these people he and Travis need to cut them off. Lil Tecca dropped in 2025 too, Ken Carson, Kodak also, none of them nominated no NBA YoungBoy who dropped 4 projects last year, 1900 Rugrat album dropped last year. These is the politics awards. These guys weirdly enough do not even get the billboard or AMA win they give it to old trash like Eminem it’s weird
Everyone here at the political awards were on the Epstein list but they ignore that even worse pictures too with Pusha, Jay and Epstein and their partner in crime Weinstein.
Harvey Weinsteins friends Jay Z gave Kendrick the ok to get more awards than him. And like the other friend Pusha they both lied on Drake. People forget Kendrick was signed to crossdresser abuser Dr Dre, worked with Carti who does the same and abandons his kids like Dre, and also works with Eminem and the South Park guys he looks more and more dumb but Kbots defend the meme rapper for now.
Carti trash in their books but not Kendrick. Also Kendricks friend got caught in a pred catch by Vitaly no one talks about that either.
He sold out to the so called evil white corporations Nike/Converse, UMG, Paramount, Apple, the NFL, he is a fraud. He lives in NYC despite pretending to be a west coast guy and is ducking Joey Badass. Also made a album sampling and honoring a gay black man Luther Vandross
Lamar from compton he hard as hell
Can he respond to Joey Badass now? Watch more Kendrick friends in the Epstein files Eminem, Jay, and Pusha just the beginning watch she thing Dre be in it and 50 Cent, Snoop for sure. Diddy is a fall guy all because he sued Diageo.
Kendrick not hood his gay cousin exposed that he just pretends. Drake is right the evidence against him will come out about his white wife.
West coast is gay
But I’m gayer
Kendrick should apologize Drake ain’t the one who was sharing with Weinstein it was Pusha and Jay who should share a cell with him
He’ll be locked up with them too watch Whiteny claim domestic abuse. Drake proven right. UMG wil fall. Drake could honestly come back diss Kendrick with Joey Badass and even more so Jay-Z and Pusha T, diss J Cole too.
I want to swallow Drake.
Kendrick bots like crazy so does Cole
That Best Album cover category is still sending me. Like they just handing out grammys these day lol
He should be in a cell with his boys Pusha and Jay for the rest of their lives
Carti revealed Kendrick and the labels screwed him over he was promised a Grammy if he did things their way for I Am Music. He was got, Kendrick is full ego. We need a rerelease of I Am Music no Kendrick add back Ye
Guy who screwed over Lil Wayne well Jay Z helped and then played victim? Who is also helping Gavin Newsom pocket money from victims of wildfires in Cali so he can run for president and replace them with Mexicans?
Probably tied to Epstein with Jay, Em, and Pusha. Drake was right he need to have a victory lap now this is what he needed. All the crazy fans on cope now claiming the files are fake because they worship celebs too much especially Eminem.
Literally pictures of Jay and Pusha with Epstein and Weinstein adding more to their allegations. Trump’s allegations make no sense given women have said they did not see him there also he was in different locations from what the emails say and there is proof. Jay and Push nope, also Trump stopped talking to Jeffrey in 2007 when the Florida case happened.
Reminder his Super Bowl performance was on Tubi so for sure botted same with his streams and these awards just him doing what the industry wants
the pedo torch has been passed.