WATCH: Cardi B performs ‘Money’ at the 61st annual Grammys

Prior to making history as the first solo female rapper to win the award for Best Rap Album at the Grammys, Cardi B (real name Belcalis Almanzar) dazzled the audience and viewers at home with an old-Hollywood inspired performance of her hit single Money.

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Cardi took home the Grammy for her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, which is preceded by two mixtapes.

Other winners of the evening include South Africa’s own Soweto Gospel Choir as well as Ariana Grande, Drake, H.E.R, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and the Carters (Beyonce and Jay Z).

Drake caused a mini-controversy with his acceptance speech when he insinuated that artists didn’t need Grammys.

“If you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you’re a hero in your hometown, if there are people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain and the snow, spending hard earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don’t need this right here… You already won,” said the rapper before the feed abruptly cut to commercial.

Drake getting cut off during his speech for Best Rap Song for God’s Plan lol #Grammys pic.twitter.com/A2P5nErVsq

— Eric Diep (@E_Diep) February 11, 2019

Check out the full list of 2019 Grammy Award winners:

Record of the Year: This Is America — Childish Gambino

Album of the Year: Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves

Song of the Year: This Is America — Donald Glover and Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)

Best New Artist: Dua Lipa

Best Pop Solo Performance: Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) — Lady Gaga

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Shallow — Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

Best Pop Vocal Album: Sweetener — Ariana Grande

Best Rock Performance: When Bad Does Good — Chris Cornell

Best Rock Song: Masseduction — Jack Antonoff and Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)

Best Rock Album: From the Fires — Greta Van Fleet

Best Alternative Music Album: Colours — Beck

Best R&B Performance: Best Part — H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar

Best Urban Contemporary Album: Everything Is Love — The Carters

Best R&B Album: H.E.R. — H.E.R.

Best Rap Performance: King’s Dead — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake and Bubblin — Anderson Paak

Best Rap Song: God’s Plan — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels, and Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)

Best Rap Album: Invasion of Privacy — Cardi B

Best Country Solo Performance: Butterflies — Kacey Musgraves

Best Country Album: Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Emanon — The Wayne Shorter Quartet

Best Latin Pop Album: Sincera — Claudia Brant

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: “Aztlán” — Zoé

Best Americana Album: By the Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile

Best Song Written for Visual Media: Shallow — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams

Best Music Video: This Is America — Childish Gambino

Best Comedy Album: Equanimity & the Bird Revelation — Dave Chappelle

Best Musical Theater Album: The Band’s Visit — Etai Benson, Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk and Ari’el Stachel, principal soloists; Dean Sharenow and David Yazbek, producers; David Yazbek, composer and lyricist

Best Instrumental Composition: Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil) — Terence Blanchard

Best Arrangement, Instrumental, or A Cappella: Stars and Stripes Forever — John Daversa

Best Arrangement, Instruments, and Vocals: Spiderman Theme — Mark Kibble, Randy Waldman and Justin Wilson, arrangers

Best Recording Package: Masseduction — Willo Perron, art director

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic — Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll, and Al Yankovic, art directors

Best Album Notes: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris — David Evans, album notes writer

Best Historical Album: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris — William Ferris, April Ledbetter, and Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Colours — Julian Burg, Serban Ghenea, David “Elevator” Greenbaum, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Lagatta, Cole M.G.N., Alex Pasco, Jesse Shatkin, Darrell Thorp and Cassidy Turbin, engineers; Chris Bellman, Tom Coyne, Emily Lazar and Randy Merrill, mastering engineers

Best Remixed Recording: Walking Away (Mura Masa remix) — Alex Crossan, remixer

Best Immersive Audio Album: Eye in the Sky – 35th Anniversary Edition — Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, P.J. Olsson, and Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Steve Gadd Band — Steve Gadd

Band Best Gospel Performance/Song: Never Alone — Tori Kelly featuring Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin and Victoria Kelly, songwriters

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: You Say — Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram and Paul Mabury, songwriters

Best Gospel Album: Hiding Place — Tori Kelly

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Look Up Child — Lauren Daigle

Best Roots Gospel Album: Unexpected — Jason Crabb

Best World Music Album: Freedom — Soweto Gospel Choir

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: The Greatest Showman — Hugh Jackman (and various artists); Alex Lacamoire, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Greg Wells, compilation producers

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: Black Panther — Ludwig Göransson, composer

Best New Age Album: Opium Moon — Opium Moon

Best American Roots Performance: The Joke — Brandi Carlile

Best American Roots Song: The Joke — Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth, and Tim Hanseroth, songwriters

Best Bluegrass Album: The Travelin’ Mccourys — The Travelin’ Mccourys

Best Traditional Blues Album: The Blues Is Alive and Well — Buddy Guy

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Please Don’t Be Dead — Fantastic Negrito

Best Folk Album: All Ashore — Punch Brothers

Best Children’s Album: All the Sounds — Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books and Storytelling): Faith – A Journey for All — Jimmy Carter

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): ¡México Por Siempre! — Luis Miguel

Best Tropical Latin Album: Anniversary — Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Best Regional Roots Music Album: No ‘Ane’i — Kalani Pe’a

Best Music Film: Quincy — Quincy Jones; Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula Dupré Pesmen, video producer

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Tequila — Dan + Shay

Best Country Song: Space Cowboy — Luke Laird, Shane Mcanally and Kacey Musgraves, songwriters

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: My Way — Willie Nelson

Best Engineered Album, Classical: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 — Shawn Murphy and Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer

Producer of the Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh

Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 — Andris Nelsons, conductor

Best Opera Recording: Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs — Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson and Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer

Best Choral Performance: Mcloskey: Zealot Canticles — Donald Nally, conductor

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Anderson, Laurie: Landfall — Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Kernis: Violin Concerto — James Ehnes; Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Songs of Orpheus – Monteverdi, Caccini, D’india & Landi — Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo’s Fire, ensembles

Best Classical Compendium: Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘spiritualist’; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush — Joann Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Kernis: Violin Concerto — Aaron Jay Kernis, composer

Best Dance Recording: Electricity — Silk City and Dua Lipa featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson

Best Dance/Electronic Album: Woman Worldwide — Justice

Best Reggae Album: 44/876 — Sting and Shaggy

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Don’t Fence Me In — John Daversa, soloist. Track from: American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom

Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Window — Cécile Mclorin Salvant

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom — John Daversa Big Band featuring DACA Artists

Best Latin Jazz Album: Back to the Sunset — Dafnis Prieto Big Band

Best Traditional R&B Performance: Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand — Leon Bridges and How Deep Is Your Love — PJ Morton featuring Yebba

Best R&B Song: Boo’d Up — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai and Dijon Mcfarlane, songwriters

Best Metal Performance: Electric Messiah — High on Fire

Best Rap/Sung Performance: This Is America — Childish Gambino

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(Compiled by Kaunda Selisho)