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At last weekend's Grammy Awards, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis dominated in the hip-hop categories, winning Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album, beating out Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kanye West, and Jay-Z. (They also won Best New Artist, beating Lamar there, too.)

After the Grammys, Macklemore posted a text message he sent Lamar, in which he said that Lamar deserved the Best Rap Album award. "You got robbed. I wanted you to win," he wrote. Now, Lamar himself has responded to Macklemore's string of wins.

Speaking to XXL, Lamar said:

It’s well deserved; he did what he did, man... He went out there and hustled and grinded. Everything happens for a reason; the universe comes back around, that’s how it go.

XXL also asked Lamar for his opinion on the Grammys' treatment of hip-hop broadly, and whether it is undervalued:

I definitely feel like they should always have more of the culture up in there, for sure, because we definitely stand out just like any other genre.. We part of the world. We part of the movement. So I think any awards, including the Grammys, should always push for more hip-hop because it’s music as a whole, it’s not just splitting different regions. Everything moves as far as sound and vibrations, and that’s how it goes. And we are a part of that.

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