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Beyonce’s “Formation” Wins Grammy
Add a Grammy to Beyonce’s ever-increasing list of accomplishments. After announcing that she’s pregnant with twins, Beyonce is poised to clean up at the 59th Grammys, and she’s starting off strong with a Best Music Video win for “Formation.” The award is Beyonce’s first at the 59th Grammys; she has 9 nominations and has won a total of 21 throughout her career. “Formation” is the first single off of Beyonce’s 2016 Lemonade. SOURCE: VLADTV
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Kendrick Lamar Is Nominated for 11 Grammys
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was easily the most talked about rap album of 2015—and it was also the most polarizing. Was it brilliant? (The answer is, yes.) Or was it a piece of work so avant garde that it’s “unrelatable?” (The answer is no.) A 16-track social-political protest of sorts, consisting of intelligent, sometimes soul-questioning musings of a young dude from Compton struggling with notions of racism, right and wrong, celebrity and spirituality, TPAB was unlike anything else released last year. And it could be argued that even though it’s barely a year old, it already occupies an important space in hip-hop’s musical canon. Which is why it’s…
