"We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to honor Jay Z with this year's GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Award. In 2017 Jay Z became the first hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His most recent wins came for 2014 for "Drunk In Love," a duet with wife Beyoncé, which earned Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song. He has gone on to win a total of 21 career GRAMMY Awards, earning him a spot as one of the top GRAMMY winners of all time. He earned his first GRAMMY win for 1998 for his third studio album, Vol. Since 1996, Jay Z has been a dominant force in music and popular culture, with multiple businesses and accolades across the recording industry.
Jay-Z, Kanye West Win Best Rap Performance She is in the running for the prestigious Best New Artist prize, along with Best R&B Performance ("The Weekend"), "Best R&B Song ("Supermodel"), Best Urban Contemporary Album ( Ctrl), and Best Rap/Sung Performance ("Love Galore" featuring Travis Scott). SZA has also earned five nominations, marking her first career GRAMMY nods. previously won a GRAMMY for Best Rap Song for his work on Jay-Z's "Run This Town" at the 52nd GRAMMY Awards.Ī first-time GRAMMY nominee, hip-hop artist Khalid earned his first five GRAMMY nods this year, including for Song Of The Year for his participation in "1-80" alongside fellow first-time nominees Logic and Alessia Cara. In addition, he is in the running to earn the coveted Producer Of The Year, Non Classical award. also has five 60th GRAMMY noms to his name, including Record, Song and Album Of The Year for his work on Jay-Z's 4:44. He's nominated in two R&B and the Urban Contemporary categories, along with Album Of The Year for Awaken, My Love! and Record Of The Year for "Redbone."
Mars has previously been nominated in the Record Of The Year category five times and he took home a GRAMMY in the category for 2015 for "Uptown Funk" with Mark Ronson.Ĭhildish Gambino earned five 60th GRAMMY nominations, looking to take home his first career GRAMMY wins. Lamar is already a seven-time GRAMMY winner and is now a 29-time nominee.īruno Mars is vying to add more GRAMMY wins to his five awards, having earned six nods this year, including Record Of The Year ("24K Magic"), Album Of The Year ( 24K Magic) and Song Of The Year ("That's What I Like"). Lamar also garnered nods for Record Of The Year for "HUMBLE." (as well as Best Music Video) and Album Of The Year for DAMN. Joining Jay-Z as a nominee is every category in the Rap Field is Kendrick Lamar, who has earned seven 60th GRAMMY nominations.
The most nominations he ever earned in a single year is nine, which he received at the 56th GRAMMY Awards. He's also nominated in every category in the Rap Field, as well as for Best Music Video for "The Story Of O.J."Īs one of the top GRAMMY winner s of all time, Jay-Z now has 74 GRAMMY nominations to his name and 21 wins. Jay-Z is this year's top dawg, having earned eight nominations, including Record Of The Year ("The Story Of O.J."), Song Of The Year ("4:44") and Album Of The Year ( 4:44). Read more: The making of Beyoncé's Lemonade The diverse range of these and other artists' statements on the album become remixed into something uniquely Jay Z: reverent to the past, while always staying creative and hustling in the present. GRAMMY-winning artists among the sampled tracks include the Clark Sisters, the Fugees, Donny Hathaway, and Stevie Wonder, and GRAMMY-nominated artists Alan Parsons, Nina Simone and Totó la Momposina. A nationwide tour was announced on June 10.īut behind this excitement, GRAMMY-winning album producer No ID's sample work provides sensitivities and sensibilities that add greater emotional depth to what Jay referred to as "trying to give you a million dollars' worth of game for $9.99."įor a deeper look inside 4:44's curation process, Genius News published a unique compilation counting through the many samples on 4:44, comparing the original tracks to their creative re-uses in this year's latest blockbuster.
New tracks and the album's first video are just some of the exciting news attending its publicity rollout. Released first as a Tidal exclusive on June 30, accompanied by a Sprint promotion, 4:44 went platinum by July 5 before being widely offered for download. Struggle and success have punctuated the legendary rise of Jay Z, and in his latest album, 4:44, already a platinum success, he breaks new ground rapping about his mature struggles.