Kendrick Lamar and SZA's 'Luther' wins Grammy for record of the year

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” was named grounds of the twelvemonth astatine Sunday night’s 68th Grammy Awards, giving Lamar his 2nd consecutive triumph successful the class aft helium took it successful 2025 with his smash-hit Drake diss, “Not Like Us.”

The Compton-born rapper is 1 of lone 4 acts successful Grammy past who’ve gone backmost to backmost successful grounds of the year, on with Billie Eilish, U2 and Roberta Flack.

Built connected a salient illustration of Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn’s 1982 duet “If This World Were Mine” (itself a screen of the opus Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell introduced successful 1967), “Luther” is from Lamar’s sixth workplace album, “GNX,” which came retired successful November 2024.

“Luther forever,” Lamar said portion accepting the speech. Cher announced the victor aft accepting the Lifetime accomplishment award, astatine archetypal conscionable speechmaking disconnected Vandross’ name.

The opus — which was produced by Jack Antonoff, Bridgeway, M-Tech, Roselilah, Sounwave and Kamasi Washington — spent 13 weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100, longer than immoderate different azygous successful 2025. On Spotify, “Luther” has been streamed much than 1.3 cardinal times.

The different songs nominated for grounds of the twelvemonth were Bad Bunny’s “DTMF,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild,” Doechii’s “Anxiety,” Billie Eilish’s “Wildflower,” Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” and “Apt.” by Rosé and Bruno Mars.