Month: February 2024

Taylor Swift Has The Most Album Of The Year Grammys In History With Her Win For ‘Midnights’

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The 2024 Grammy Awards field for Album Of The Year included some stiff competition, even as the number of nominees in the “Big Four” General Field categories was reduced from ten to eight. From Jon Batiste to Taylor Swift to SZA, all of the albums could easily qualify for the award and put up a sturdy argument for winning it. But in the end, only one artist could walk away with the gold gramophone: Taylor Swift for her album Midnights.

During her speech, Swift gave praise to Lana Del Rey, who stood nearby, but downplayed the award, saying that she got the same feeling for every small achievement when it comes to songwriting and recording. With the award win, the Midnights singer became the most-awarded Album Of The Year winner with four wins. She has won for Fearless (at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards), 1989 (at the 58th Grammy Awards), Folklore (at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards), and now, Midnights. Ironically, earlier in the evening, Jay-Z read the Recording Academy the riot act while accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, criticizing the sheer number of snubs of his wife Beyoncé.

Watch Taylor Swifts’ Album Of The Year acceptance speech above and check out the rest of Uproxx’s 2024 Grammy coverage here.

Travis Scott Brings Playboi Carti Out For Grammy Performance

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Travis Scott brought out Playboi Carti at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday night for a performance on his songs “Fein” and “My Eyes.” In doing so, he brought rage-filled energy to the stage alongside flamethrowers and strobe lights. While on stage, Scott shouted, “They slept on me 10 times!”

The performance came after Scott lost the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album to Killer Mike’s Michael. Other nominees in the category included Metro Boomin (HEROES & VILLAINS), Nas (King’s Disease III), and Drake & 21 Savage (Her Loss). It marked Scott’s 10th losing nomination over the course of his career. He’s still yet to win. Unsurprisingly, his fans were furious with the result. “Travis Scott deserved this one especially after the grammys disaster of 2018,” one argued on Twitter.

Read More: Fans Share Throwback Photo Of Drake & Travis Scott Ahead Of Grammys 2024 Showdown

Travis Scott Performs At The Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Travis Scott performs onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/WireImage)

Best Rap Album wasn’t the only honor Killer Mike took home at the ceremony. He also won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance with his track “Scientists & Engineers.” It’s the first time he’s won a Grammy since 2003, when he took home Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for his work on Outkast’s “The Whole World.” The night wasn’t all positive for Mike. After accepting his awards, he was seen being taken out of the venue in handcuffs by police. The arrest reportedly stemmed from a misdemeanor battery charge regarding an incident that took place outside the Crypto.com arena. Check out Travis Scott’s performance at the Grammys below.

Travis Scott Brings Playboi Carti To The Grammys

Elsewhere during the ceremony, Lil Durk, J. Cole, Victoria Monet, and more artists took home other awards. Be on the lookout for further updates on Travis Scott as well as the 2024 Grammy Awards on HotNewHipHop.

Read More: Travis Scott Fans React To Killer Mike Winning Best Rap Album Over “Utopia”

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JAY-Z Drinks Out Of His Grammy Award During Ceremony

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JAY-Z is catching attention on social media for taking a sip of D’Ussé out of his Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at the 2024 Grammys on Sunday night. During his acceptance speech, he made a joke about his daughter using Grammy Awards as sippy cups when she was younger. Afterward, the cameras caught him using the award to drink from.

“Thank you very much. I used to say it was a sippy cup for Blue, but Blue’s grown up now she doesn’t take sippy cups,” he said on stage. “And she has her own Grammys.” Blue Ivy joined him for the acceptance speech.

Read More: Jay-Z Hosts Pre-Grammys Party In Hollywood After Canceling Roc Nation Brunch

JAY-Z Accepts Dr. Dre Global Impact Award With Blue Ivy

US rapper Jay-Z (L) accepts the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award alongside his daughter Blue Ivy on stage during the 66th Annual Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024. (Photo by Valerie Macon / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

JAY-Z also criticized the Recording Academy with his speech by noting that Beyonce has never won Album of the Year despite being the winningest artist in Grammy history. “I don’t want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won Album of the Year,” he said. “So even by your own metrics, that doesn’t work. Think about that. The most Grammys; never won Album of the Year. That doesn’t work. Obviously, it’s subjective because it’s music. It’s opinion-based. Some of you are going to go home tonight and feel like you’ve been robbed. Some of you may get robbed– some of you don’t belong in the category. When I get nervous, I tell the truth. But outside of that, we gotta keep showing up. Forget the Grammys for a second, just in life. Just in life, you gotta keep showing up. You gotta just keep showing up until they give you those accolades you feel you deserve until they call you chairman, until they call you a genius, until they call you the greatest of all time. You feel me? Thank you.”

JAY-Z Drinks Out Of His Grammy Award

Both JAY-Z and Beyonce have been nominated for exactly 88 Grammy Awards. JAY has won 24 of them while she has won 33. Be on the lookout for further updates on JAY-Z and the 2024 Grammy Awards on HotNewHipHop.

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GRAMMY Awards Winners 2024

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One of the biggest nights in entertainment brought out all of the celebrities who gathered at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles for the 66th annual GRAMMY Awards presentation. In addition to the traditional highly-coveted award categories, the 2024 event saw the addition of three new categories of awards: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording. Check out some of the key winners below:

Record Of The Year: Flowers, Miley Cyrus

Album Of The Year: Midnights, Taylor Swift

Song Of The Year: What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture “Barbie”], Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell

Best New Artist: Victoria Monét

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Jack Antonoff

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical: Theron Thomas

Best Pop Solo Performance:  “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Ghost In The Machine.” SZA Featuring Phoebe Bridgers

Best Pop Vocal Album: Midnights, Taylor Swift

Best Dance/Electronic Recording: “Rumble,”  Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan

Best Pop Dance Recording: “Padam Padam,” Kylie Minogue

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album: “Actual Life 3,” Fred again..

Best R&B Performance: “ICU,” Coco Jones

Best Traditional R&B Performance: “Good Morning,” PJ Morton Featuring Susan Carol

Best R&B Song: “Snooze,”  Kenny B. Edmonds, Blair Ferguson, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Solána Rowe & Leon Thomas, songwriters (SZA)

Best Progressive R&B Album: SOS, SZA

Best R&B Album: JAGUAR II, Victoria Monét

Best Rap Performance: “SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS,” Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future And Eryn Allen Kane

Best Melodic Rap Performance: “All My Life,” Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole

Best Rap Song:” SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS,” Andre Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future And Eryn Allen Kane)

Best Rap Album: MICHAEL, Killer Mike

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An Emotional Victoria Monét Wins The Best New Artist Award At The 2024 Grammys

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Each year, music fans and critics alike try their best to guess who will walk away with a trophy during the Grammy Awards. This year was quite exhausting, considering the massive number of categories (98 in total). The 2024 Grammys most nominated acts, like SZA and Victoria Monét are shoo-ins for several major categories. But, the Best New Artist category is elusive.

During this year’s ceremony, Victoria Monét took home the win (as most predicted). The “On My Mama” singer beat out Coco Jones, Gracie Abrams, Fred Again, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Noah Kahan, Victoria Monét, and The War And Treaty.

As she headed to the stage to accept the award, she couldn’t help but hold back tears. In her speech, she thanked her collaborators, including producers Deputy, D Mile, and more. When the nominations were first announced, Victoria and her family shared their live reactions to hearing that she secured seven nods (which made her the second most nominated act).

Earlier in the evening, Victoria’s Jaguar II album snagged two wins for Best R&B Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

Last year’s winner, jazz prodigy Samara Joy, did the honors of handing Victoria the ward this year.

View Uproxx’s complete coverage of the 2024 Grammy Awards here. Check out the complete list of winners during the evening here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Burna Boy’s Grammy Performance Of ‘Sittin’ On Top Of The World’ With Brandy Continued His Role As Afrobeats Ambassador

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Late last year, Uproxx called Burna Boy the perfect ambassador for Afrobeats to the rest of the world, especially the United States, after his sold-out arena tour stop in Los Angeles. Tonight, he continued in that role with a medly performance of his songs, “On Form” and “Sittin On Top Of The World” on the 2024 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Burna was joined in the latter by Brandy, whose song was sampled her 1998 hit “Top Of The World,” and 21 Savage, who performed a laid-back verse in the vein of Mase, who was featured on the original.

The performance — and Burna’s four nominations this year — proved why Burna has held the role since Afrobeats’ breakout stateside, as his magnetism emanted off the stage. Burna’s been one of the genre’s biggest artists for the past seven years after singing to Atlantic Records in the US in 2017 and releasing a string of critically-acclaimed, fan-favorite albums, which includes African Giant, Twice As Tall, Love, Damini, and 2023’s I Told Them….

The latter garnered Burna his four nominations this year: Best Global Music Album; Best African Music Performance for “City Boys”; Best Global Music Performance for “Alone”; and Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Sittin’ On Top Of The World.” Going into tonight’s ceremony Burna held one previous win for Twice As Tall , which took home Best Global Music Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021.

Watch Burna Boy’s performance above and check out Uproxx’s full 2024 Grammy Awards coverage here.

Burna Boy is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Grammys In Memoriam Included A Tony Bennett Duet, A Call For Ceasefire, And A Stunning Tina Turner Tribute

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The Grammys’ In Memoriam tribute for 2024 was necessarily a rough time, as so many legends passed away since early 2023, including Sinead O’Connor, Tina Turner, and more. The segment saw Stevie Wonder deliver a simulated duet of “For Once In My Life” with Tony Bennett, as well as “The Best Is Yet To Come.” Then Annie Lennox covered Sinead O’Connor’s Prince-penned “Nothing Compares 2 U.”

Fittingly, Lennox used the moment to call for a ceasefire in West Asia (commonly called the Middle East) in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palenstine over the Gaza Strip. It was a fitting moment because O’Connor notably used her platform to make passionate political statements, including criticizing the Catholic church. She took a lot of punishment from the media and the public for her positions, finding vindication years later.

Meanwhile, there were spoken tributes to Clarence Avant, the “Godfather of Black Music,” form Lenny Kravitz, and Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll, by Oprah Winfrey. Meanwhile, Jon Batiste performed Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Optimistic” for the former, while Fantasia Barrino performed “Proud Mary” for the latter, decked out in a classic Turner look. Fantasia even left the stage to dance with the audience, including Dua Lipa.

You can keep up with Uproxx’s Grammys coverage here.

Travis Scott Took The 2024 Grammys To ‘Utopia’ With A Moody Performance Of ‘My Eyes’ And ‘Fein’ With Playboi Carti

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The 2024 Grammy Awards took a trip to Utopia as Travis Scott brought his usual raucous energy to his performance.

Opening with a moody rendition of the introspective “My Eyes” and then broke out into a more energetic performance of “Fein,” replete with flamethrowers and strobing spotlights as mist surrounded his asteroid stage. He was joined by the song’s featured artist Playboi Carti, who worse a creepy mask, and spent the back half of his performance throwing chairs.

Travis is nominated for one award this year: Best Rap Album for Utopia, which dropped July 28, 2023, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 496,000 album-equivalent units sold/streamed. 252,000 of those units were pure album sales.

The album arguably marked a return to form for the Houston rapper, who had been largely absent from the spotlight in the year following the tragic incident at the 2021 Astroworld Festival in which 10 fans were killed by a crowd crush and hundreds more were injured.

Since his return, Travis has been more of a ubiquitous marketing presence than ever, crisscrossing North America on his Circus Maxiumus tour for Utopia, releasing a new Nike collaboration alongside tennis legend John McEnroe, and even starring in a new film by Harmony Korine shot entirely in infrared false color.

Travis has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards over the course of his career, including Best Rap Album for 2018’s Astroworld, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for that album’s Drake-featuring single “Sicko Mode,” and Best Melodic Rap Performance for his 2021 single “Highest In The Room.”

Watch Travis’ performance above and check out the rest of Uproxx’s 2024 Grammys coverage here.

SZA Debuted A New Song, ‘Saturn,’ From Her Upcoming Album ‘Lana’ In A New MasterCard Campaign During The 2024 Grammys

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SZA has had an incredible night at the 2024 Grammy Awards tonight (February 4). During a special performance from the Grammy House, the prolific hitmaker — who already won two Grammys tonight, for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her Phoebe Bridgers collaboration, “Ghost In The Machine” and Best R&B Performance for “Snooze” — debuted a new song, “Saturn” from her upcoming album, Lana.

On the song, SZA laments her time in an environmentally unconscious world.

“Stuck in this paradigm / Don’t believe in paradise / This must be what hell is like / There’s got to be more, got to be more Sick of this head of minе / Intrusive thoughts, they paralyze / Thе fun is done, to summarize,” she sings on the song’s hook.

The accompanying advertisement features SZA joined by dancers, moving to the music in a greenscape. It ends with SZA announcing her partnership with MasterCard and the Priceless Planet Coalition. The Priceless Planet Coalition aims to restore 100 million trees in forests around the world that have the greatest potential positive impact on the climate, for communities and for nature.

“It takes more than one person or one company to create scaled impact for the planet,” said Rustom Dastoor, EVP of Marketing and Communications, Mastercard North America, in a statement. “Music does more than unite us, it inspires us to take action. Through our GRAMMY Awards campaign, we are merging passion and purpose in a way that, through a major cultural event, rallies people to come together through the power of music to create collective action for the planet.”

You can see the MasterCard ad above.

Drake Calls Out Grammy Awards: “This Show Doesn’t Dictate Sh*t”

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Drake called out the Grammys on his Instagram Story, on Sunday night, as the latest ceremony took place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. In doing so, he shared a clip of himself speaking on stage at the Grammy Awards in 2019. The message comes after he lost in all four categories in which he was competing including Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Melodic Rap Performance.

“All you incredible artists remember this show isn’t the facts it’s just the opinion of a group of people who’s name are kept a secret (literally you can google it),” he captioned his post. “Congrats to anybody winning anything for hip hop but this show doesn’t dictate sh*t in our world.”

Read More: Drake Seemingly Ends Grammy Boycott, Submits “Her Loss” With 21 Savage For Consideration

Drake Attends The 2019 Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 10: Drake accepts the Best Rap Song award for ‘God’s. Plan’ onstage backstage during the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

The 2024 Grammy Awards mark the first time Drake has even submitted his music for consideration in a number of years. He previously took issue with the Recording Academy classifying “Hotline Bling” as a rap song, and the organization snubbing The Weeknd’s After Hours, among a number of other grievances. Check out his latest post about the Grammys below.

Drake Slams The Grammys

Other winners from the ceremony included Killer Mike, Lil Durk and J. Cole, as well as Dave Chappelle and more. Be on the lookout for further updates on Drake as well as the rest of the 2024 Grammy Awards on HotNewHipHop.

Read More: Killer Mike Sweeps Best Rap Album, Song, & Performance At 2024 Grammys

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