Kendrick Lamar has gained Document of the Yr for the primary time at the 2025 Grammys, making good on his fourth yr of nomination within the class. His incendiary Drake diss “Not Like Us” beat out competitors from Taylor Swift and Publish Malone (“Fortnight”), the Beatles (“Now and Then”), Beyoncé (“Texas Maintain ’Em”), Billie Eilish (“Birds of a Feather”), Chappell Roan (“Good Luck, Babe!”), Charli XCX (“360”), and Sabrina Carpenter (“Espresso”). And, sure, they did televise a number of the extra vicious strains from the music; it might be the primary time the gala has sung alongside to a lyric that triggered ongoing litigation towards the most important document label on this planet.
“Initially, all reward to probably the most excessive. We awoke this morning,” Lamar started his acceptance speech earlier than paying tribute to a late aunt. “ DocDre, what’s up? Swizz [Beatz], what’s up? We gon’ dedicate this one to this metropolis: Compton, Watts, Lengthy Seashore, Inglewood, Hollywood, out to the Valley… San Bernardino, all that. You recognize, that is my neck of the woods that’s held me down since I used to be a younger pup, since I used to be within the studio scrapping to put in writing one of the best raps and all that.”
“I can’t give sufficient thanks to those locations that I rolled round since highschool,” Lamar continued. πMost importantly, the folks and the households out within the Palisades and Altadena. This can be a true testomony that we are able to proceed to revive this metropolis. And, yeah, we gon’ preserve rocking. My boy Mustard, the place you at, man? What’s up?”
Mustard added, “I ain’t received nothing to say however Westside!”
Earlier within the day, Lamar gained Best Music Video, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Performance, all for “Not Like Us.” He went on to snag Song of the Year, too.
Formally, Lamar shares the Document of the Yr victory with: “Not Like Us” producers Mustard, Sean Momberger, and Sounwave; engineers and mixers Ray Charles Brown Jr. and Johnathan Turner; and mastering engineer Nicolas de Porcel.
