When Lil Baby recorded his Grammy-nominated single “The Bigger Picture” last year, he didn’t expect people to even like it. “I felt like the song was going to be slept on,” he tells Rolling Stone, one day afterhe performed the song as part of the Grammys‘ most politically charged moment. …
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Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s R&B supergroup Silk Sonic made their television debut at the 2021 Grammy Awards, performing their first single “Leave the Door Open.” The duo performed the tune in retro orange suits, complete with sunglasses and twinkling lights in the background. Their new album An Evening With …
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Lido Pimienta is at home in Toronto the day after releasing yet another visual feat — this time, it’s the Orly Anan-directed video for her song “Coming Thru,” which features her presiding over an opulent table that brims with lush fruit and food. Her son, Lucian, chatters happily in the …
Read More »The Crisis Behind the All-White Grammy Category
The only artists up for the 2021 Best Children’s Album Grammy are white — which, in a year of reckoning for the Recording Academy over diversity problems, has drawn wide ire, and led to three of the five white nominees writing to the Academy last month asking for their names …
Read More »Chuck D Slams Grammys Over CEO's Ousting: 'Same Old Bullsh-t'
Chuck D slammed the Recording Academy over their decision to part ways with their new CEO Deborah Dugan, a stunning move that occurred just 10 days before the Grammy Awards. “I salute Deborah Dugan for her truth and courage to try and effect change,” the Public Enemy rapper wrote on …
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