“I'll give the spoiler alert away. Will Smith was a part of the festivities tonight, but they started shooting Bad Boys 4 already this week,” Questlove revealed to Variety ahead of the award show. “There's a lot of preliminary shots that he had to do, so we had to lose Will. That was gonna be a surprise moment.”
Host Trevor Noah previously insinuated there would be a few surprise performances, however, Smith, 54, had to drop out after starting to shoot Bad Boys 4.
At the 65th Grammy Awards, the Academy is celebrating 50 years of hip-hop. According to Questlove, Will Smith was originally supposed to be a part of the tribute but had to back out due to production on “Bad Boys 4.”
The big news at the 65th annual Grammy Awards: Beyoncé broke the record for most wins in the event's history. But her four victories didn't come in the major, all-genre categories — album, record and song of the year. (Those went to Harry Styles, Lizzo and Bonnie Raitt.)
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The whole thing ended with a very long performance of “God Did” led by DJ Khaled and JAY-Z, the former of whom wrapped it up by saying God allowed the Grammys to present an eight-minute hip-hop performance.
Who skipped? Adele, Beyoncé, Gwen Stefani and more were notably absent from the 2023 Grammy Awards red carpet on Sunday, February 5. Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé were all highly anticipated stars who were nominated for the big night.
The top three all-genre categories went to three different winners — none of them the ones that were being widely prognosticated. Harry Styles picked up album of the year, Lizzo won record of the year and 20th century Grammy favorite got a truly unforeseen win for song of the year.
Here are the winners of the 65th annual Grammy Awards. Beyoncé broke the record for most wins by any artist in Grammy history at the 65th annual awards on Sunday night, converting four of her nine nominations into victories.
GRAMMY winner and current nominee Harry Styles has been added to the 2023 GRAMMYs performer lineup. He joins previously announced GRAMMY performers Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Luke Combs, Steve Lacy, Lizzo, Kim Petras, and Sam Smith. Harry's House is coming to the GRAMMYs!
“We chose to boycott. We feel that it's a slap in the face,” Smith told reporters. Some of their peers agreed, hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa, executive Russell Simmons, and rapper LL Cool J, following suit with the boycott. “If they don't want us, we don't want them,” Salt-N-Pepa said in a joint statement.
But at last night's monster tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, one of those first winners didn't perform: Will Smith, who won Best Rap Performance in 1989 for “Parents Don't Understand” with DJ Jazzy Jeff (who was there and scratched the hell out of “Rock the Bells”).
He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances. Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man for the action film Bad Boys (1995) and the science fiction comedy Men in Black (1997); he later reprised his role in several sequels.
He was one of the biggest winners at this year's event which took place in Los Angeles. Winning the final award of the year, the total number of awards won by Harry Styles for the night mounted to three. He also bagged awards for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Taylor Swift started her 2023 Grammy Awards night with a pre-telecast win and a shimmering walk down the red carpet. The “Anti-Hero” hitmaker won the Grammy Award for best music video for “All Too Well: The Short Film,” which she wrote, directed and starred in with Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien.
Speaking of Swift, she got four 2023 nominations, including Song of the Year for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (The Short Film).” Swift is a six-time Song of the Year nominee and is seeking to win the award for the first time.
Beyoncé's four victories—for Best Dance/Electronic Recording, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Dance/Electronic Music Album—were especially notable, as she became the winningest artist in Grammys history as a 32-time winner.
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Cody Johnson has won his first ever Grammy for ''Til You Can't', having fought off the likes of Maren Morris, Luke Combs and Taylor Swift for the coveted accolade.
Taylor Swift made history when the nominations for 2024 Grammy Awards were announced on Friday. The music superstar became the first person to be nominated in the song of the year category seven times in her career. The song that garnered this year's nod in that category was her hit, "Anti-Hero."
Gomez opted to not attend the show tonight for a very fair reason: She has no direct nominations, although she is credited in Coldplay's Music of Spheres album nomination for Album of the Year, as she collaborated with the band on “Let Somebody Go.”
And activist Preston D. Mitchum pointed out that the snub was “infuriatingly racist,” since the vast majority of her wins have been in R&B categories. Even though Beyoncé has never won Album of the Year, Mitchum observed, “artists like Taylor Swift has THREE under her belt.”
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Harry Styles won album of the year for "Harry's House" at the 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday. The news sparked online debate due to concerns over the favoring of white artists at awards shows. Styles' performance of "As It Was" also stirred online speculation due to apparent mishaps on stage.
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Styles may have won the Grammy for album of the year, but Beyoncé's fans point out she broke a record Sunday night. Harry Styles' acceptance speech after he won the Grammy award for album of the year caused an uproar on social media Sunday night.
