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Grammy Winners 2021: H.E.R. Wins Song Of The Year
JAY-Z's Net Worth
Megan Thee Stallion got off to the right start, winning accolades for Best New Artist at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday. And that was on top of nabbing both Best Rap Performance — and wildly re- acting to it — and Best Rap Song for “Savage.”
The Grammys — hosted by Trevor Noah and taking place in and around the Los Angeles Convention Center, near the usual venue, the Sta- ples Center — finally kicked off after a months-long delay due to the coronavirus pan- demic.
Another big winner was H.E.R., whose emotional song “I Can’t Breathe” — a tune of protest in response to the May 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapo- lis police — landed Song of the Year.
And he rocked it in style. Wearing a green feather boa over his black leather getup — sans shirt, the better to show off his tattoos — he swaggered through “Watermelon Sugar” to open the show, sounding great and looking even better.
While Harry Styles didn’t get any nominations in the Big 4 categories this year — and surely he deserved Record and Song of the Year nods for his No. 1 solo hit “Watermelon Sugar” — he did win Best Pop Solo Performance for the song, as well as the honor of doing the opening perform- ance at the Grammys.
If the real win at the Gram- mys is a killer performance — and let’s face it, it is — Styles delivered.
Other musicians on the bill included a pole-loving Cardi B, a moody Taylor Swift and
$1.4 Billion USD
MEG THEE STALLION, TREVOR NOAH AND BILLE EILISH
JAY-Z’s $1 billion USD net worth has seen a 40 percent in- crease thanks to his recent deals with Jack Dorsey‘s Square and LVMH.
According to Forbes, Hov is now worth $1.4 billion USD after he sold a majority stake in TIDAL to Dorsey’s Square, Inc. for $297 million USD and 50 percent of his Armand de Brignac champagne brand — which the publication now val- ues at approximately $640 mil- lion USD — to LVMH.
Breaking down his $1.4 bil- lion USD fortune, Forbes re- ported that the rapper/businessman has $425 million USD in cash and invest- ments including stakes in Uber, Sweetgreen, Ethos and SpaceX. JAY-Z’s Armand de Brignac deal gave him at least $320 mil- lion USD while his Roc Nation
Billie Eilish, who offered up the heartbreaking “Every- thing I Wanted,” accompa- nied by brother Finneas.
And the stars who could make it to the red carpet — in- cluding Lizzo, Doja Cat, Bad Bunny and H.E.R. — were ready to show off all sorts of fashion fab for the other- wise socially-distanced event. Beyoncé was up for nine awards — and won an early one with daughter Blue Ivy Carter — and topped the A- list nominees, followed by Dua Lipa, Roddy Ricch and Taylor Swift, all with six nods each.
Here is the list of winners for the 63rd Grammy Awards, which will be updated as more are announced.
WINNER: “Savage” — Bey- oncé, Shawn Carter, Brit- tany Hazzard, Derrick Milano, Terius Nash, Megan Pete, Bobby Ses- sion Jr., Jordan Kyle Lanier Thorpe & Anthony White, songwriters (Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Be- yoncé)
Best Rap Song
“The Bigger Picture” — Do-
minique Jones, Noah Pet- tigrew & Rai’shaun
JAY-Z
imprint is priced at $140 mil- lion USD, cognac brand D’Usse at $120 million USD, extensive music catalog at $95 million USD, art collection at $70 mil- lion USD and real estate prop- erty at $50 million USD.
Jumps 40% To Become
‘Atlanta’ Cast Heading To Europe Soon To Shoot Seasons 3 And 4
H.E.R.
Williams, Songwriters (Lil Baby)
Song of the Year WINNER: “I Can’t Breathe”
— Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas, songwrit- ers (H.E.R.)
“I Can’t Breathe” by H.E.R. won Song of the Year at the 2021 Grammys.Getty Images
Best Pop Solo Performance WINNER: “Watermelon
Sugar” — Harry Styles Best Country Album
WINNER: “Wildcard” — Miranda Lambert
Best New Artist
WINNER: Megan Thee Stallion
We hear that production on the remaining seasons of FX’s multi-Emmy and Golden Globe winning comedy series Atlanta will soon be underway.
Sources tell us that the cast of the Donald Glover created- and-headlining series is travel- ing over to Europe on March 23 where both seasons will be shot, with an expected start date of
Zazie Beetz as Van, Donald Glover as Earnest Marks in FX's 'Atlanta'.
April 5.
FX Chief John Landgraf
said last summer that Glover and his writing team completed the scripts for seasons three and four, calling it an “unexpected boon” of quarantine. Season three of Atlanta was set to air in January 2021 with season four following in the fall, but Covid prevented that.
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