Cher, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B and DJ Khaled read passages, but were upstaged by the final candidate - Hillary Clinton.

The Grammys also included a humorous bit of staged auditions for the spoken-word version of Michael Wolff’s controversial “Fire and Fury” book. Politics entered more prominently later in the show, when Cuban-Mexican immigrant Camila Cabello introduced a U2 performance from a barge on the Hudson River, in view of the Statue of Liberty. 1”), best country solo performance (“Either Way”) and best country song (“Halos”). Host James Corden - back for a second year - aimed some city-centric jokes at Brooklyn native Jay-Z presenters Tony Bennett and John Legend vamped on “New York, New York” (and the camera cut to a beleaguered-looking Jerry Seinfeld) and Sting, Shaggy and Corden engaged in a humorous takeoff of Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” feature with “Subway Karaoke.”Įd Sheeran added two more Grammys to his collection, for best pop vocal album (“Divide”) and best pop solo performance (“Shape of You”), and the always-genuine Chris Stapleton scored a trifecta with best country album (“From a Room: Vol. His fiery set, which offered pyro, marching soldiers and plenty of social commentary, scored pop-ups from Dave Chappelle and Bono and The Edge. Lamar opened the show - in New York for the first time in 15 years - with a blistering medley of “XXX,” “DNA,” “New Freezer” and “King’s Dead.” Hip-hop has done that for me,” Lamar said from the stage at Madison Square Garden, before flashing a smile and adding, “Jay for president!” I thought it was about the accolades, but it’s about putting that paint on the canvas. “Rap music … showed me the true definition of what being an artist was.

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