2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year.
It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer-Prize winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his career and dominated pop culture in 2024 thanks to a now-iconic feud with Drake. But the new year is off to an even stronger start.
Over the weekend, he picked up five Grammys for his massive diss track “Not Like Us,” including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The star-studded audience, including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, were particularly enthusiastic about Lamar’s victories. As he walked onstage to receive the Record of the Year Grammy in a seemingly intentional all-denim outfit known as a “Canadian tuxedo,”…