For the most part, conventionality was perhaps the general theme ofthis year’s Grammy Awards – and I mean that in the best way possible. In the general field, Kendrick Lamar’s instant classic salvo in the biggest rap beef of the millennium won both Record and Song of the year, and Beyoncé finally won the long overdue, previously elusive Album of the Year gramophone for her versatile country-fusion LP, Cowboy Carter.
That theme crossed over into the Best African Music Performance category, where Nigerian singer Tems won her second…