Drake showed up afterall to scoop his trophy, but the Grammys weren't feeling his speech. At all. Plus, the big wins from the Carters, Childish Gambino, Cardi B. and more.
Drizzy scooped up the Grammy for Best Rap Song for God's Plan at Sunday's 61st Grammy Awards. Despite reports saying he (along with lots of folks like Childish Gambino and Pharrell) were intentionally skipping out on the Grammys this year, he surely slid in last minute saying he "didn't expect to win." Mmhmm.
He accepted his Grammy, but then blasted the Grammys for being unimportant during his acceptance speech. Ha! They didn't even upload his acceptance speech to their Youtube channel like they did everyone else's. But someone grabbed it anyway:
They cut him....and quickly. His speech seemed shorter than those who got cut off for going too long, so we're pretty sure the powers that be were pissy about his words. Bloop.
The Carters won for Best Urban Contemporary Album for Everything Is Love, while Pharrell picked up Producer of the Year (Non Classical).
Childish Gambino made history as the first rapper to nab Record of the Year with "This Is America," and the song copped 3 more - Best Rap/Sung Performance, Best Music Video, and Song of the Year.
H.E.R. & Ella Mai copped their first GRAMMYS.
BIG!
Cardi B. and Gaga pulled out major wins for the night too.
Check out the full list of winners below:
Best Comedy Album
Equanimity & The Bird Revelation
Dave Chappelle
Best Musical Theater Album
The Band’s Visit
Best Alternative Music Album
Colors
Beck
Best Instrumental Composition
Blut Und Boden (Blood And Soil) from BlacKkKlansman
Terence Blanchard
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
Stars And Stripes Forever
John Daversa
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Spiderman Theme
Randy Waldman
Best Recording Package
Masseduction
Willo Perron, art director St. Vincent
Best Recording Package
Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of “Weird Al” Yankovic
Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll & “Weird Al” Yankovic, art directors
Best Album Notes
Voices Of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented By William Ferris
David Evans, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Best Historical Album
Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris
William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Colors
Beck
Best Remixed Recording
Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix)
Mura Masa, Remixer HAIM
Best Immersive Audio Album
Eye In The Sky – 35th Anniversary Edition
Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, PJ Olsson, & Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer (The Alan Parsons Project)
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Steve Gadd Band
Steve Gadd
Best Gospel Performance/Song
Never Alone
Tori Kelly & Kirk Franklin, songwriters
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
You Say
Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram & Paul Mabury, songwriters
Best Roots Gospel Album
Unexpected
Jason Crabb
Best World Music Album
Freedom
Soweto Gospel Choir
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media winner
Black Panther
Ludwig Goransson, Composer
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Greatest Showman
The Greatest Showman
Best Song Written For Visual Media
Shallow
Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)
Best New Age Album
Opium Moon
Opium Moon
Best American Roots Performance
The Joke
Brandi Carlile
Best American Roots Song
The Joke
Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)
Best Americana Album
By The Way, I Forgive You
Brandi Carlile
Best Bluegrass Album
The Travelin’ McCourys
Travelin’ McCourys
Best Traditional Blues Album
The Blues Is Alive And Well
Buddy Guy
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Please Don’t Be Dead
Fantastic Negrito
Best Folk Album
All Ashore
Punch Brothers
Best Children’s Album
All The Sounds
Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio, Books & Storytelling)
Faith- A Journey For All
President Jimmy Carter
Best Latin Pop Album
Sincera
Claudia Brant
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
Aztlan
ZOÉ
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
¡Mexico Por Siempre!
Luis Miguel
Best Tropical Latin Album
Anniversary
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Best Regional Roots Music Album
No ‘Ane’I
Kalani Pe’a
Best Music Video
This Is America
Childish Gambino, Hiro Murai, video director; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers
Best Music Film
Quincy
Quincy Jones; Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones video directors; Paula Dupre Pesmen, video producer
Best Country Solo Performance
Butterflies
Kacey Musgraves
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Tequila
Dan + Shay
Best Country Song
Space Cowboy
Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
Best Pop Solo Performance
Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)
Lady Gaga
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
My Way
Willie Nelson
Best Pop Vocal Album
Sweetener
Ariana Grande
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11
Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer
Producer Of The Year, Classical
Blanton Alspaugh
Best Orchestral Performance
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11
Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Best Opera Recording
Bates: The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs
Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson & Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)
Best Choral Performance
McLoskey: Zealot Canticles
Donald Nally, conductor (Doris Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval & Mandy Wolman; The Crossing)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Anderson, Laurie: Landfall
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
Best Classical Instrumental
Kernis: Violin Concerto
James Ehnes;Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Songs Of Orpheus – Monteverdi, Caccini, D’India & Landi
Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo’s Fire, ensembles
Best Classical Compendium
Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems Of Life; Glacier; Rush
JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Kernis: Violin Concerto
Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Woman Worldwide
Justice Music
Best Reggae Album
44/876
Sting & Shaggy
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Don’t Fence Me In
John Daversa, soloist
Best Dance Recording
Electricity
Silk City & DUA LIPA Featuring Diplo & Mark Ronson
Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Window
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Emanon
The Wayne Shorter Quartet
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
American Dreamers: Voices Of Hope, Music Of Freedom
John Daversa
Best Latin Jazz Album
Back To The Sunset
Dafnis Prieto Big Band
Best R&B Performance
Best Part
H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar
Best Traditional R&B Performance (TIE)
Bet Ain’t Worth The Hand
Leon Bridges
AND
How Deep Is Your Love
PJ Morton Featuring Yebba
Best R&B Song
Boo’d Up
Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)
Best Urban Contemporary Album
Everything is Love
Beyonce and Jay-Z (The Carters)
Best Rock Performance
When Bad Does Good
Chris Cornell
Best Metal Performance
Electric Messiah
High On Fire
Best Rock Song
Masseduction
Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
Best Rock Album
From The Fires
Greta Van Fleet
Best Rap Performance (TIE)
King’s Dead
Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake
AND
Bubblin
Anderson Paak
Best Rap/Sung Performance
This Is America
Childish Gambino
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Pharrell Williams
Awards Announced on Live Broadcast:
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Shallow
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
Song of the Year
This Is America
Childish Gambino
Best Country Album
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
Best Rap Album
God’s Plan
Drake
Best New Artist
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa
Record of the Year
This Is America
Childish Gambino
Album of the Year
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
Best R&B Album
H.E.R.
H.E.R
Best Rap Song
God’s Plan
Aubrey Graham (Drake), Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
Best Rap Album
Invasion Of Privacy
Cardi B
Photos: Beyonce's IG/Getty
