{"id":223145,"date":"2026-02-03T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223145"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:30:07","slug":"mad-skillz-wins-his-first-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/mad-skillz-wins-his-first-grammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Skillz Wins his First Grammy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an eventful night at the Grammy Awards for Hip-Hop artists. <strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> was the night&#8217;s biggest winner, taking home five awards, including &#8216;Best Rap Album&#8217; for &#8220;GNX&#8221; and &#8216;Record of the Year&#8217; for &#8220;Luther.&#8221; Renowned Virginia artist <strong>Mad Skillz <\/strong>won his first Grammy Award this year! He earned the &#8216;Best Spoken Word Poetry Album&#8217; with &#8220;Words For Days, Volume 1.&#8221; It&#8217;s an album which encompasses a song for every day of the week, and features more than a dozen Richmond-area musicians and producers. <strong>Clipse<\/strong> and <strong>Doechii<\/strong> also took home an award, in the categories for &#8216;Best Rap Performance&#8217; and &#8216;Best Music Video&#8217;, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=Ry6lukBcNAwGMgpQ&amp;list=OLAK5uy_kQzXy8zjJlwDQB0dnrh-8WlNh113ONAvU\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an eventful night at the Grammy Awards for Hip-Hop artists. Kendrick Lamar was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":223146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mad-skillz.avif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-W37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}