

I find, working with newer artists, you have to play more of a mentoring role.

Sometimes, you've gotta play a bigger role. "In some rooms, you’ve got to find out what role you play. "I feel like my awareness is a lot of the reason I’ve been doing this for a long time, because I’m very socially aware of what’s going on and I can see," he tells. Boi-1da, the 36-year-old Canadian producer who netted four nominations at the 2023 GRAMMYs - including the coveted Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical - has risen to the very top of the industry, and remained there because he hasn’t lost the perspective from when he first started rolling the boulder up the hill If a rapper staying atop the mainstream for more than a decade is a herculean feat, then a producer doing the same is downright sisyphean. It also became his fourth chart-topping album on the Billboard 200.Ĭheck out the complete list of winners and nominees at the 2023 GRAMMYs. Over the course of 2022, GOD DID earned Khaled his seventh career Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to lead single "Staying Alive" featuring Drake and Lil Baby. Blige's Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe), which is nominated for Album Of The Year. He nabbed an additional nomination as a guest artist on Mary J. The superproducer scored a sixth nomination in the Best Melodic Rap Performance category for "BEAUTIFUL," the Future and SZA-assisted album cut off GOD DID. The album GOD DID was up for Best Rap Album. The praiseworthy banger raked in three nominations at this year's awards show, including Song Of The Year, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. And later, Jay-Z stole the spotlight as he testified, "These ain't songs, these is hymns 'cause I'm him/ It's the Psalm 151, this New Testament/ The book of Hov/ Jesus turned water to wine/ For Hove, it just took a stove." "They didn't want us to win! So I made sure I was on the GRAMMYs stage with the biggest! This is for hip-hop!" Khaled shouted in between verses by Ross and Lil Wayne.

Spilling into the street outside L.A.'s Arena, the assembled MCs and singers spit their verses and sang their hooks awash in purple light, with Legend seated behind a piano covered in flowers while the rest sat at an opulent, overflowing table in the style of the Last Supper. DJ Khaled closed out the 2023 GRAMMYs with a star-studded squad including Jay-Z, John Legend, Lil Wayne, Fridayy, and Rick Ross on their collab "GOD DID."
