Drake’s Grammys Wins: How Many He’s Won & For What

• Drake (b. Aubrey Drake Graham) is simply a Canadian rapper and singer.
• He has been nominated for implicit 50 Grammy Awards.
• Drake has a tumultuous narration with the Grammys and pulled his euphony from the 2022 awards.

Started from the bottom, present he’s here: Drake stands astatine the apical of the rap world. It seems similar Drake has it all, with galore records, countless Billboard Hot 100 hits, and countless Gold, Platinum, and Diamond RIAA certifications. He adjacent has aggregate Grammy Awards but compared to the haul of his different accolades, Drake’s Grammy full is amazingly small.

Despite being nominated for, arsenic of 2023, 51 awards, Drake’s lone taken home…four. For idiosyncratic who has lived arsenic ample arsenic Drake has, and for idiosyncratic who has accomplished truthful much, to person a Grammy number successful the azygous digits is uncharacteristic for him. Even Drake seems a spot miffed by this paltry amount, arsenic he’s expressed his disappointment with the Grammys connected galore occasions.

So, what did Drake triumph his Grammys for? And wherefore is it apt that fig won’t turn successful the adjacent future? Let’s find out.

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Drake’s 2023 Grammy Nominations

Drake heads into the 2023 Grammys with 4 nominations…indirectly.

• Best Melodic Rap Performance: Drake scored a Best Melodic Rap Performance motion for his diagnostic connected Future’s “Wait For U,” which besides features Tems. The opus volition vie against “Beautiful” (DJ Khaled ft. Future and SZA), “First Class” (Jack Harlow), “Die Hard” (Kendrick Lamar ft. Blxst and Amanda Reifer), and “Big Energy (Live)” (Latto) for the prize.
• Best Rap Song: Again, Drake scored a information for a feature. His verse connected Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs” earned him a Best Rap Song nod. It got nominated on with “God Did” (DJ Khaled ft. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend, and Fridayyy), “The Heart Part 5” (Kendrick Lamar), “Pushin P” (Gunna and Future ft. Young Thug), and … “Wait For U,” meaning Drake scored two nominations successful the aforesaid category.
• Album Of The Year: Drake dropped 2 projects successful 2022: Honestly, Nevermind, and Her Loss, his collab medium with 21 Savage. The second missed the cutoff constituent for the 65th Grammy Awards, and the former… didn’t nett immoderate awards. So, however did Drake people an Album of the Year nod? Well, helium has a recognition connected Beyoncé’s Renaissance. That medium is up for Album of the Year astatine the 2023 ceremony. None of Drake’s enactment earned him a nonstop nomination, and determination apt is simply a crushed for that.

Drake’s Relationship With The Grammys

Drake and the Grammys don’t usually spot eye-to-eye. In 2014, Drake handed retired the #HoodGrammys. In 2017, helium didn’t taxable his album, More Life, for consideration. In 2022, helium was nominated for Best Rap Album (Certified Lover Boy) and Best Rap Performance (“Way Too Sexy”), but helium withdrew his enactment from contention for some awards. It was a determination reportedly made by Drake and his management, and the Recording Academy honored his request, per Entertainment Weekly.

Drake’s 2022 determination mightiness person been done successful solidarity with however the Grammys did his friend, The Weeknd, soiled the twelvemonth before. The Weeknd’s After Hours was utterly unopen retired of the nominations, adjacent though his “Blinding Lights” azygous became the longest-charting opus by a solo creator connected the Billboard Hot 100 of each time.

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“I deliberation we should halt allowing ourselves to beryllium shocked each twelvemonth by the disconnect betwixt impactful euphony and these awards,” Drake posted to his Instagram communicative erstwhile The Weeknd was snubbed, “and conscionable judge that what erstwhile was the highest signifier of designation whitethorn nary longer substance to the artists that beryllium present and the ones that travel after.”

“The different day, I said [The Weeknd] was a fastener for either Album of the Year on with countless different tenable assumptions, and it conscionable ne'er goes that way,” helium added. “This is simply a large clip for idiosyncratic to commencement thing caller that we tin physique up implicit clip and walk connected to the generations to come.”

Her Loss may people immoderate nominations successful the 66th Grammy Awards, but if that’s the case, it mightiness beryllium done to springiness 21 Savage immoderate flowers. Drake, similar Miley Cyrus said, tin bargain his own.

Drake’s 4 Grammy Awards

Best Rap Album — Take Care (2013)

Drake’s archetypal Grammy triumph came successful 2013 erstwhile his Take Care won for Best Rap album. He won implicit 2 Chainz’s Based connected a T.R.U Story, Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album. Pt. 1, Nas’s Life is Good, The Roots’ Undun, and Rick Ross’s God Forgives, I Don’t. Drake spoke with Fuse quality connected the reddish carpet of the Grammy Awards, but helium wasn’t determination successful idiosyncratic for the pre-televised presumption of Best Rap Album.

Best Rap/Sung Performance — “Hotline Bling” (2017)

Best Rap Song “Hotline Bling” (2017)

Drake took location 2 Grammy awards during the 59th Grammys successful 2017. However, helium wasn’t successful attendance astatine the ceremony.

“Hotline Bling” won Best Rap/Sung Performance, beating Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s “Freedom,” DRAM and Lil Yachty’s “Broccoli,” and 2 Kanye West songs: “Ultralight Beam” (featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin, and The-Dream) and “Famous” (featuring Rihanna and Swizz Beatz).

“Hotline Bling” besides won Best Rap Song, beating Kanye’s “Famous” and “Ultralight Beam,” Chance The Rapper’s “No Problem” (featuring Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz), and “All The Way Up” by Fat Joe and Remy Ma featuring French Montana and Infrared.

The adjacent night, connected an occurrence of Apple Music’s OVO Sound radio, Drake disputed being pigeonholed successful a azygous category. “I americium referred to arsenic a achromatic artist. I’m a achromatic artist,” helium said, per Entertainment Weekly. “I’m seemingly a rapper adjacent though ‘Hotline Bling’ is not a rap song. The lone class they tin negociate to acceptable maine successful is successful a rap category, possibly due to the fact that I’ve rapped successful the past oregon due to the fact that I americium black. I can’t fig retired why.”

“There’s popular obligations they have, and I fluked out,” helium said. “I fluked retired and got 1 of the biggest songs of the twelvemonth that is simply a popular song, and I’m arrogant of that. I emotion the rap world, and I emotion the rap community… I constitute popular songs for a reason. I privation to beryllium similar Michael Jackson. I privation to beryllium similar the artists that I looked up to. Those are popular songs, but I ne'er get immoderate recognition for that.”

Best Rap Song “God’s Plan” (2019)

Drake was connected manus erstwhile “God’s Plan” won Best Rap Song successful 2019. The opus defeated “King’s Dead” (Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future, and James Blake), “Lucky You” (Eminem ft. Joyner Lucas), “Win” (Jay Rock), and “Sicko Mode” (Travis Scott, Drake, and Swae Lee) to assertion the prize.

The presumption was during the broadcast, and Drake, upon winning, called retired the Grammys. “I privation to instrumentality this accidental portion I’m up present to conscionable speech to each the kids that are watching this, aspiring to bash music,” Drake said, per CNN. “All my peers that marque euphony from their heart, that bash things axenic and archer the truth, I wanna fto you cognize we’re playing successful an opinion-based athletics not a factual-based sport. So it’s not the NBA wherever astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth you’re holding a trophy due to the fact that you made the close decisions oregon won the games.”

“This is simply a concern wherever sometimes it’s up to a clump of radical who mightiness not recognize what a mixed-race kid from Canada has to accidental oregon a alert Spanish miss from New York oregon anybody else, oregon a member from Houston close there, my member Travis [Scott],” helium continued. “But my constituent is you’ve already won if you person radical singing your songs connection for word, if you’re a leader successful your hometown. Look, if there’s radical who person regular jobs who are coming retired successful the rain, successful the snow, spending their hard-earned wealth to bargain tickets to travel to your shows, you don’t request this close here. I committedness you, you already won.”

The broadcast chopped to a commercialized earlier Drake finished speaking. A week earlier the broadcast, the show’s shaper said that Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Childish Gambino declined to execute astatine the event.

Nominations

2010

• Best Rap Song (“Best I Ever Had”)
• Best Rap Solo Performance (“Best I Ever Had”)

2011

• Best New Artist
• Best Rap Solo Performance (“Over”)
• Best Rap Performance By Duo oregon Group (“Fancy” with Swizz Beatz and T.I.)
• Best Rap Album (Thank Me Later)

2012

• Album of the Year (Loud)
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“What’s My Name” with Rihanna)
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“I’m connected One” with DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne)
• Best Rap Performance (“Moment 4 Life” with Nicki Minaj)

2013

• Best Rap Performance (“HYFR” with Lil Wayne)
• Best Rap Song (“The Motto” with Lil Wayne)
• Best Rap Album (Take Care)

2014

• Best Rap Album (Nothing Was The Same)
• Best Rap Performance (“Started From The Bottom”)
• Best Rap Song (“Started From The Bottom”)
• Best Rap Song (“F*****’ Problems” with A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, and Kendrick Lamar)
• Album of the Year (good kid, m.A.A.d city, arsenic a featured artist)

2015

• Album of the Year (Beyoncé, arsenic a featured artist)
• Best Rap Song (“0 to 100/ The Catch Up”)
• Best Rap Performance (“0 to 100 / The Catch Up”)
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Tuesday” with ILoveMakonnen)

2016

• Best Rap Song (“Energy”)
• Best Rap Performance (“Back To Back”)
• Best Rap Performance (“Truffle Butter” with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne)
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Only” with Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and Chris Brown)
• Best Rap Album (If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late)

2017

• Album of the Year (Views)
• Record of the Year (“Work,” with Rihanna)
• Best Rap Album (Views)
• Best Rap Song (“Hotline Bling”)
• Best Rap/Sung Performance (“Hotline Bling”)
• Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Work” with Rihanna)
• Best R&B Song (“Come and See Me” with PartyNextDoor)
• Best Rap Performance (“Pop Style” with The Throne)

2019

• Album of the Year (Scorpion)
• Record of the Year (“God’s Plan”)
• Song of the Year (“God’s Plan”)
• Best Rap Song (“God’s Plan”)
• Best Rap Song (“Sicko Mode” with Travis Scott and Swae Lee)
• Best Rap Performance (“Sicko Mode” with Travis Scott and Swae Lee)
• Best Rap Performance (“Nice For What”)

2020

• Best R&B Song (“No Guidance” with Chris Brown)
• Best Rap Song (“Gold Roses” with Rick Ross)

2021

• Best Rap Song (“Laugh Now Cry Later” with Lil Durk)
• Best Melodic Rap Performance (“Laugh Now Cry Later” with Lil Durk)
• Best Music Video (“Life Is Good” with Future”)

2021

• Album of the Year (Renaissance as a songwriter)
• Best Rap Song (“Churchill Downs” with Jack Harlow)
• Best Rap Song (“Wait For U” with Future and Tems)
• Best Melodic Rap Song (“Wait For U” with Future and Tems)

Will Drake Perform At The 2023 Grammys?

All signs constituent to “no.” Stranger things person happened, but…one would beryllium omniscient not to clasp their breath.

What’s Next For Drake?

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In precocious January 2023, Drake performed back-to-back shows astatine the iconic and historical Apollo Theatre successful Harlem, New York. During the 2nd night, 21 Savage joined Drake connected the stage. “I was telling them earlier, but if you guys bask that experience, consciousness escaped to travel spot maine and my member this summer,” helium said, per HypeBeast, indicating a associated circuit successful enactment of Her Loss is happening successful the summertime of 2023.

Drake hinted that his adjacent medium – a imaginable existent solo rap album, his archetypal since 2021’s Certified Lover Boy – mightiness beryllium connected the way.

“I profoundly admit everybody for continuing to enactment us,” Drake said astatine the show. “I’ve thought astir a clump of things successful life, but astatine this infinitesimal successful time, nary of those things are stopping making euphony for you, truthful I’ll beryllium present for you for a small spot astatine least. And I anticipation I tin onslaught up much emotions for you. Maybe this year, I mightiness get bored and marque different one; who knows.”

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