Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” became the 2024 de facto song when he fell in May, and now he’s a Grammy Award winner.
The dissident track for rapper Drake exceeded the single and crowned Lamar rankings as the winner of the long -term beef Between the two artists. Lamar is a double Grammy nomine in two categories thanks to another song that fueled the quarrel: “Like that” by Future and Metro Boomin, which includes Lamar. Through his verse on the March track, Lamar rejected the idea that he, Drake and J. Cole were at the same level. Cole had involved this in a verse in Drake’s song in 2023 “First Person Shooter”.
Lamar was nominated for five prizes for “Not like Us”: record of the year, song of the year, rap song, rap performance and clip.
During the ceremony for the first Grammys on Sunday afternoon, the song won prizes for rap song, rap performance and clip. He won both the song of the year and the record of the year in the evening ceremony.
Lamar broke rigid competition to bring the record of the year, including the Beatles with the song lugged by the AI ”Now and then”. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and producer Giles Martin created the record using a trial recording John Lennon 1980 and AI technology. The category was also crowded with success: “Texas Hold” by Beyoncé, “Expresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Good luck by Chappell Roan, baby!” and “360” by Charli XCX. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish were also appointed for their respective successes of the year, “Fifteen” and “Birds of a Feather”.
While Lamar approached the price, almost the whole crowd sang the “A Minor” when the song played.
The favorite of the song of the year was the “good luck by Chappell Roan, baby!” that the singer co-written with Daniel Nigro and Justin Tranter. Lamar also beat the fans of fans “Texas Hold ‘Em” (interpreted by Beyoncé), “Birds of a Feather” (Billie Eilish), “please, please, please” (Sabrina Carpenter), “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (Shaboozey)), “Fifteen” (Taylor Swift with Post Malone) and “Die with a smile” (Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga).
Lamar and “Not Like Us” won the Rap song prize, beating several artists, including himself. He was also nominated for his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin for “like that”. Glorilla, Rapsody with Hit-Boy, Kanye West and Ty dolla sign under the name of the artist ¥ ¥, and Rich the Kid With Playboi Carti were also nominated.
Lamar beat Eminem, Common, Pete Rock and Posdnuos to win the Grammy for Rap Performance. Lamar was also nominated alongside his Future and Metro Boomin collaborators for “like that”. Eminem was nominated for “Houdini”; Common, Pete Rock and Posdnuos were nominated for “when the sun shines again”; Cardi B was nominated for “enough (miami)”; And the new arrivals Glorurla and Doechi were nominated for “yeah Glo!” And “Nissan Altima”, respectively.
For video he shot in his hometown of ComptonLamar won the Grammy for a video clip. The other rappers Eminem and Asap Rocky were nominated for “Houdini” and “Tailor Swif”. And Swift herself was nominated, just like Charli XCX, for “fortnight” and “360”, respectively.
Before Sunday, Lamar already had 17 grammys. The artist is preparing for his performance at Half-time show of the Super Bowl in just one week. Although it is No clear if he will play “not like us” On the ground, his Juneteenth Show at the Kia Forum could be an indication: he has done it six times in a row to noisy applause.
