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N.W.A, Gladys Knight Score Laughs, Praise With Lifetime Achievement Grammys


N.W.A's Ice Cube laughed off Dr. Dre's absence as group accepted Lifetime Achievement Grammy

Ice Cube said he never expected to be onstage accepting a gilded gramophone with his fellow N.W.A members, but that’s what happened Saturday when he, MC-Ren, DJ Yella and the mother and son of late rapper Eazy-E received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards. The two-hour merit ceremony held the day before Sunday’s televised Grammy Awards bestowed Lifetime Achievement honors on N.W.A, Knight, Laurie Anderson, the Clark Sisters, Donna Summer and Tammy Wynette. The composer, vocalist and visual artist with six Grammy nominations and one win has garnered fame for being the first artist-in-residence of NASA and for her collaborations with William S. Burroughs, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass and her late husband, Lou Reed.

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