Record of the Year and Best Pop Performance (Duo or Group): “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye feat.
Here’s our run down of sample-related highlights of the winners’ list: The 55th annual Grammy Awards showed phenomenal support for sampled/covered music this week with no fewer than 16 of the awards relating to music containing samples, cover songs or remixes! One year short of the 25th Anniversary of the introduction of the Best Rap Performance category, LL Cool J, who hosted the ceremony on Sunday night, closed the awards show with a duet with Public Enemy‘s Chuck D, a medley which paid tribute to their former Def Jam label mate, the late Adam Yauch, better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys.