{"id":2262202,"date":"2026-02-02T04:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2262202"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:36:04","slug":"kendrick-lamar-breaks-grammys-record-for-most-wins-by-a-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kendrick-lamar-breaks-grammys-record-for-most-wins-by-a-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Breaks Grammys Record For Most Wins By A Rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Kendrick Lamar is now the most awarded rapper in Grammys history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>On Sunday, the rap star, also the most-nominated artist at this year\u2019s ceremony, won Best Rap Album for \u201cGNX.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>After Queen Latifah and last year\u2019s Best Rap Album winner, Doechii, presented the award, Lamar took the stage to give an acceptance speech dedicated to hip-hop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cEvery time I tell you this, hip-hop is gonna always be right here,\u201d he said. \u201cWe gonna be in these suits. We gonna be looking good. We gonna be having our folks with us. We\u2019re gonna be having the culture with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Lamar now surpasses Jay-Z\u2019s Grammy record to become the most decorated rapper ever. The latter set a new record last year after breaking his tie with Kanye West, notching his 25th win as a credited songwriter on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCowboy Carter,\u201d which took home Album of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Lamar was up for nine Grammys this year, bringing his total career nominations to 66. Ahead of the main ceremony, the rapper collected awards for Best Rap Song (\u201cTV Off\u201d feat. Lefty Gunplay), Best Melodic Rap Performance (\u201cLuther\u201d feat. SZA) and Best Rap Performance (Clipse\u2019s \u201cChains &amp; Whips\u201d). He\u2019s still nominated in several other categories, including Record, Song and Album of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Going into this year\u2019s Grammys, Lamar already had 22 awards \u2014 the third-most ever for a rapper \u2014 after sweeping five categories last year with his \u201cNot Like Us\u201d diss track. He now joins the elite club of the top Grammy winners of all-time behind legends like Beyonc\u00e9, Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Lamar is now the most awarded rapper in Grammys history. On Sunday, the rap star, also the most-nominated artist at this year\u2019s ceremony, won Best Rap Album for \u201cGNX.\u201d After Queen Latifah and last year\u2019s Best Rap Album winner, Doechii, presented the award, Lamar took the stage to give an acceptance speech dedicated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2262203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[350406,344870,37703,21945],"class_list":["post-2262202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-grammys","tag-jay-z","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-rap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kendrick-Lamar-Breaks-Grammys-Record-For-Most-Wins-By-A.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262204,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262202\/revisions\/2262204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}