The 2025 Grammys went great for everyone — except Drake

• Many fan-favorite stars, including Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter, were Grammys winners.
• Kendrick Lamar took home 5 awards for "Not Like Us," his diss track about Drake.
• Lamar's awards amplify Drake's defeat after their intense rap beef.

Fans are calling Sunday's Grammys one of the best nights for the awards show in years after Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, and Kendrick Lamar won big.

But Lamar's success made Drake, the rapper's biggest rival, the event's biggest loser.

After more than a decade of being snubbed for the top award, Beyoncé finally won the prestigious album of the year for "Cowboy Carter." Rising stars Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, and CharliXCX dazzled with performances of their most popular tracks and each took at least one award.

There was some disagreement about Billie Eilish going empty-handed, but many fans on social media seemed to think there were no major snubs this year — something of a rarity for an awards show.

Lamar, who had a resurgence in 2024 after beating Drake in a diss track battle and dropping a chart-topping album "GNX," also took home five awards for "Not Like Us," his most popular diss track about Drake. Lamar won the most awards for any artist on Sunday and won in the top categories: song of the year and record of the year.

Although Drake skipped the Grammys this year and was not nominated for any awards against Lamar, the song's success is a further embarrassment for Drake.

The Recording Academy gave five awards to a song that accuses Drake of pedophilic behavior and also played the song during the event, where Beyoncé and Taylor Swift can be seen dancing along.

Drake denied the pedophile allegation in his response song "The Heart Part 6," released in May 2024.

In November 2024, Drake tried to sue Universal Music Group, the record company that owns Lamar's and Drake's labels, accusing it of using illicit methods to boost "Not Like Us." In January, he dropped another lawsuit against Universal that alleged defamation over the song's allegations.

UMG has denied Drake's allegations of boosting "Not Like Us" and of defamation.

Sunday's result is unsurprising because the Recording Academy has always embraced Lamar, who now has 22 Grammys, and famously snubbed Drake, who has only won five times from 55 nominations.

Drake has been critical of the Grammys in recent years, writing in an Instagram story in 2024: "All you incredible artists remember this show isn't the facts it's just the opinion of a group of people who's name are kept a secret ???????? (literally you can google it). Congrats to anybody winning anything for hip hop but this show doesn't dictate shit in our world."

But "Not Like Us" continued success shows that Drake can't lawyer his way out of his rap beef defeat and win back favor with the public.

Drake's year of humiliation is not over. Lamar's next stop is the Super Bowl halftime show on February 9, and fans expect him to perform his diss tracks one last time as a final blow to Drake.