Kendrick Lamar overtakes Jay-Z as most-awarded rapper in Grammys history

Less than fractional an hr into the 68th Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar already made history.

Lamar became the most-awarded hep hop creator successful Grammys history, with 26 wins total. Lamar won 3 awards aboriginal Sunday earlier the broadcast and is up for much categories passim the remainder of the night.

Lamar led nominations for this year’s award, with 9 total.

He took location champion rap medium for “GNX” aboriginal successful the show, surpassing the grounds antecedently held by Jay Z, who has 25 wins. Lamar besides won for rap opus for “TV Off,” melodic rap show for “Luther” and rap show for Clipse’s “Chains & Whips.”

“It is hip-hop arsenic usual, man. I’m not bully astatine talking astir myself, but I explicit it done the music. It’s an grant to beryllium here,” Lamar said portion accepting the champion rap medium award. “Hip-hop is going to ever beryllium close here. We are going to beryllium successful these suits looking good, having our folks with us. We are going to beryllium having the civilization with us.”

The Compton-born rapper is inactive up for the large categories of the night, including grounds of the year, medium of the twelvemonth and opus of the year.

Lamar kicked disconnected 2025 with a Super Bowl halftime performance, becoming the archetypal rapper to header music’s biggest signifier arsenic a solo act.

He swept up the apical categories past twelvemonth with his deed “Not Like Us.” The opus won 5 awards, including grounds of the twelvemonth and opus of the year.