Questlove assembled a crash course in hip-hop history, Beyoncé made her priorities known and Kim Petras spoke from the heart at the 65th annual awards.
Beyoncé set a record for the most career Grammys won by any artist but was once again shut out of the biggest awards as the ceremony returned to a Los Angeles arena.
It’s disappointing that the big awards show doesn’t reflect all of music’s immediacy and vibrancy and messiness. But the Grammys still function as a measure of change.