Kendrick Lamar (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) He rapped two songs from the album: “The Blacker the Berry” and “Alright,” explosively pounding one of his rhymes about “the hatred for the world to see,” and repeating a refrain of “We gon be alright.”
Lamar collected the Grammy for rap album, one of only eight awards handed out on camera, among 83 total categories this year.ĭuring his performance, Lamar made his entrance at the front of a line of dancers and singers, all outfitted in prison blues and shackled in chains on a set built like jail cells. Racial issues were central to two of the show’s most powerful performances: the remote telecast from the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York, where the cast of the acclaimed hip-hop musical “Hamilton” delivered the opening number live, and Lamar’s powerhouse treatment of two songs from his nominated “To Pimp a Butterfly” album. The Grammy show emcee was joined by the host of “The Late Late Show with James Corden” to present a tribute to R&B-pop singer-songwriter Lionel Richie, feted in a medley of his hits by a mixed bag of musicians including John Legend, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan, Meghan Trainor, Tyrese Gibson and Richie himself. That served as a theme reiterated in various ways through the evening. At the outset of the ceremony, host LL Cool J said, “With all that divides us today, our shared love of music unites us.” Yet displays of racial, gender, age and geographic diversity were all over this year’s show. The Grammys nominations reflected considerable race and gender diversity, but some observers worried that major wins for Swift would bring criticism of the recording academy for a similar lack of diversity at the top. The omnipresent dance hit “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and singer Bruno Mars was named record of the year, and British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran collected song of the year for his ode to eternal love, “Thinking Out Loud.” That discussion gained gravitas after the Academy Awards nominations surfaced in January, prompting another bashing under the #OscarSoWhite social media campaign. Much of the discussion ahead of Monday night’s ceremony swirled around what it would mean depending on whether Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar or Swift took album honors this year. Numbers wise, country-turned-pop superstar Taylor Swift took three more Grammys, including album of the year for her blockbuster “1989" album.
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While the motion picture academy is under fire because of its recent full slate of acting nominees lacking a single person of color, the Recording Academy heaped awards and precious national TV performance slots on national TV to a long roster of Anglo, African American, Latino, Asian, straight, gay, young and veteran performers over the course of the 3 1/2 hour show from Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The big winner at the 58th Grammy Awards ceremony on Monday night might not be any of the musicians who took home awards but the music industry’s full-court press promoting cultural diversity.
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