Watch Kendrick Lamar's Powerful 2016 GRAMMYs Performance | GRAMMY Great Performances

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The rapper made a statement with 'To Pimp a Butterfly' tracks "The Blacker the Berry" and "Alright," alluding to racial inequality and celebrating Black identity in a mind-blowing seven-minute performance. Lamar was a five-time GRAMMY winner that night, as 'To Pimp a Butterfly' swept the Rap Field and he took home another golden gramophone for Best Music Video for his Taylor Swift collaboration, "Bad Blood."

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All Comments (21)

@SameEnergyReview 1 month ago

Drake can Never.
@FriedFreezer 11 days ago

Calling Kendrick a fake activist like music isn’t protest and freedom and activism in itself is so fkin ignorant
@karisuperstar 14 days ago

Taylor Swift winning AOTY over him is a crime against humanity.
@genxer7159 9 days ago

Drake even making the attempt to compete with someone with this level of intensity and lyricism wasn't even smart.
@shawncarter5434 4 months ago

Should’ve won Album Of The Year that year. To Pimp A Butterfly was and still is a masterpiece
@whoisneezy 4 months ago

They finally put it back on YouTube. An unforgettable performance.
@SuperstarSEVHN 9 days ago

“I make music to electrify em, you(Drake) make music to pacify em”
@stargirlzen 8 days ago

Drake is an entertainer, Kendrick is an ARTIST. You cannot compare the two. PERIOD.
@timothylunt2907 4 months ago

To Pimp a Butterfly not winning AOTY is more criminal than those jail cells.
@andrewh.6494 1 month ago

People thinking there's a rapper out better than Kendrick is crazy
@TNKAMARA 9 days ago

I watched this live on TV while I was in prison. Changed my life..
@pwnser 3 months ago

this lost to 1989 by taylor swift💀💀💀seriously gotta fire them voters fr
@isaiahmd 4 months ago

No way they actually put this up. I thought they were gonna delete this from the Internet forever. Rare recording academy W
@brockkirtley3813 3 months ago

unreal that the committee watched this and was like “yeah… still 1989”
@crystalcarter8262 5 days ago

Dear Aubrey Graham... You could never.
@julesxjoules 9 days ago

I remember they had removed this from youtube. His message struck a nerve
@amanifaulk 4 months ago

I’ll never forget seeing this on tv, completely blown then and now
@swedishfish1 4 months ago

Feels so weird actually watching this on YouTube and not off someone’s google drive file 😂
@forneuslol 14 days ago

Anyone here after euphoria?
@kh9993 11 days ago

Anybody here after Meet the Grahams? Kendrick's genius is different.