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The Grammy award Show celebrates the Rap

That starts already good at times for Kendrick Lamar: The US Rapper has already five of the prestigious US music awards won. In eleven categories of the musicians nominated. Also Taylor Swift is one of the winners.

“This is for Hip Hop,” said Lamar, as he the Golden gramophone for the best Rap Album at the beginning of the ceremony at the Staples Center, said. “We will live forever.” Lamar wowed the critics with his Album “To Pimp a Butterfly”, with which he is also a political message against discrimination and police violence against African-Americans in the USA sent.

With superb eleven winning was the king of nominations in the award of the Grammys. Also, in two of the four Königskategorien is the 28-Year-old nominated, with “To Pimp a Butterfly” for the “Album of the year” and “Alright” for the “Song of the year”. The song with its line “Nigga, we gon’ be alright” to an anthem of the “Black Lives Matter”movement against police violence.

Since 2004, has no Rapper in the Album category won and had never the Song category. “I want you all to win,” said Lamar of the “New York Times”. “It would, in fact, is not only a message for me but also for my culture.”

To kick off the Grammy Gala in Los Angeles, sang the seven Times nominated Taylor Swift in Glitzerkostüm their Song “Out of the Woods”. The Rapper LL Cool J, which is the fifth year in a row, the ceremony moderated, shouted to the audience, this evening the “great Power of music to celebrate”.

Many winners were already in front of the Gala to be announced. Swift could already have the prize for the best Gesangsalbum in the area Pop forward. In October 2014 released album “1989”, with the 26-year-old singer finally, her transition from Country to pop music was, sold in the United States, more than 5.7 million Times. Together with Lamar, it was for the Song “Bad Blood” with the Grammy for best music video award.

First awards has won the seven Times nominated canadian R&B young star of “The Weeknd”. With “Earned it (Fifty Shades of Grey)” he took the Grammy for best R&B performance, for his album “Beauty Behind the Madness” was in the category “Best Urban Contemporary Album” at the front.

Justin Bieber got his first Grammy at all together with the DJ’s Skrillex and Diplo for the Single “Where Are U Now” as best Dance recording.

The British Band Muse won for “Drones,” the Golden gramophone for best rock album at home of the year. Already in 2011, were the Alternative rockers in this category have been honoured.

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