{"id":57052,"date":"2026-02-02T01:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/kendrick-lamar-wins-best-rap-album-for-gnx-at-2026-grammys\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:49:41","slug":"kendrick-lamar-wins-best-rap-album-for-gnx-at-2026-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/kendrick-lamar-wins-best-rap-album-for-gnx-at-2026-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Wins Best Rap Album for GNX at 2026 Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29812-kendrick-lamar\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a> has won Best Rap Album for <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/kendrick-lamar-gnx\/\"><em>GNX<\/em><\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/topics\/grammys\/\">2026 Grammys<\/a>. The rapper scored the trophy ahead of competitors <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/960-clipse\/\">Clipse<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/clipse-let-god-sort-em-out\/\"><em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em><\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/glorilla\/\">GloRilla<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/glorilla-glorious\/\"><em>Glorious<\/em><\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/jid\/\">JID<\/a> (<em>God Does Like Ugly<\/em>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29179-tyler-the-creator\/\">Tyler, the Creator<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/tyler-the-creator-chromakopia\/\"><em>Chromakopia<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Best Rap Album Grammys <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/doechii-wins-best-rap-album-for-alligator-bites-never-heal-at-2025-grammys\/\">winner<\/a>, for <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/doechii-alligator-bites-never-heal\/\"><em>Alligator Bites Never Heal<\/em><\/a>, was Doechii, who became only the third woman to take the category in its 36-year history. This marks Lamar\u2019s fourth time winning the award, having previously taken the prize for <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/20390-to-pimp-a-butterfly\/\"><em>To Pimp a Butterfly<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/23147-damn\/\"><em>Damn.<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/kendrick-lamar-mr-morale-and-the-big-steppers\/\"><em>Mr. Morale &amp; the Big Steppers<\/em><\/a>. Tyler, the Creator has two Best Rap Album trophies to his name. Clipse, on the other hand, only had one Grammy nomination before this year\u2019s haul. That was for their feature on Justin Timberlake\u2019s \u201cLike I Love You,\u201d which, like <em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em>, was produced by Pharrell Williams (alongside his <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/chad-hugo-is-suing-pharrell-williams\/\">unhappy<\/a> Neptunes collaborator Chad Hugo).<\/p>\n<p>Lamar\u2019s win could bode poorly for Clipse, who will go up against him once more in Album of the Year tonight. GloRilla and JID, meanwhile, had both been seeking their first Grammys this year, after multiple nominations. So far, both have come up short.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/grammy-winners-2026-see-the-full-list\" target=\"_blank\">full winners list<\/a> and follow along with all of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/topics\/grammys\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pitchfork\u2019s coverage of the 2026 Grammys.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ContentCardEmbedWrapper-kFpFGN ghlijR content-card-embed content-card-embed--side-by-side\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedWrapper\"><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedImageLink-eELFBx deqABF jfBpVC fyUolD XqBtt content-card-embed__image\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedImage\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/list-and-guides\/best-rap-albums-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr koTknX responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ContentCardEmbedInfo-bSBhwc IbulD\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE ContentCardEmbedHed-kuAbUL deqABF kxtjOE jnZCRp content-card-embed__hed\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedHed\"><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedHedLink-kqBDz deqABF kxtjOE gJzqjx hEvJqU content-card-embed__hed-link link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/list-and-guides\/best-rap-albums-2025\/\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedHedLink\">The 32 Best Rap Albums of 2025<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-wins-best-rap-album-for-gnx-at-2026-grammys\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Lamar has won Best Rap Album for GNX at the 2026 Grammys. The rapper scored the trophy ahead of competitors Clipse (Let God&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43,45],"class_list":["post-57052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-alt","tag-hip-hop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}