Eminem is inserting his bets on Kendrick Lamar to comb the 2025 Grammy Awards, regardless that the 2 rap icons will face off within the Best Rap Performance class.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Shade45 throughout its Twentieth-anniversary celebration, the rap icon praised Lamar’s monumental 12 months, calling him a “top-tier lyricist” and declaring that “Kendrick is gonna sweep that sh*t. He’s going to, and he ought to.”
Lamar, already topped Billboard’s Greatest Pop Star of 2024, has seven Grammy nominations, together with double entries in some classes because of hits like his Drake diss monitor Not Like Us and his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin on Like That.
Both songs dominated the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024, solidifying his grip on the trade.
Moreover, Ok.Dot’s album GNX additionally outperformed Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady on the charts, debuting with 319,000 equal album items in comparison with Eminem’s 281,000, and setting the 12 months’s largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album with 379.72 million on-demand streams.
Meanwhile, Eminem’s personal Grammy nods embody Best Rap Performance for his single Houdini and Best Rap Album for The Death of Slim Shady. Lamar’s GNX, nevertheless, received’t be competing this 12 months on account of its launch exterior the 2025 Grammy eligibility interval.
This isn’t the primary time Eminem has publicly praised Lamar. The two shared the stage on the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show and have lengthy expressed mutual respect. “Kendrick is on the very, very prime tier of lyricists,” Eminem mentioned, including, “Not simply of this technology, however of all time.”
