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Kendrick Lamar Wins Best Rap Album | 2018 GRAMMYs
Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Album for DAMN. at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. This marks the rapper's second career win in the Rap Album category.
The other nominees were Jay-Z's 4:44, Migos' Culture, Rapsody's Laila's Wisdom, and Tyler, The Creator's Flower Boy.
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Marking Lamar's third release in a consecutive string of albums considered instant classics by his fans and critics alike, DAMN. charted Top 5 on the album charts in five countries, taking the No. 1 slots in both Canada and the U.S., while ultimately ending the year as the No. 1 album overall for 2017 on the Billboard 200 year-end chart.
Rolling Stone called the record, "a brilliant combination of the timeless and the modern, the old school and the next-level. The most gifted rapper of a generation stomps into the Nineties and continues to blaze a trail forward."
Along with Best Rap Album, Lamar also took home honors for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Best Music Video, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Song at the 60th GRAMMY Awards, bringing his toal career GRAMMY wins to 12.