Nov 2023

38m 14s

Best Grammy Winning Songs

About this episode

In today’s episode, we’re discussing some of the best songs to win Grammys across multiple genres.. This includes DJ Khaled’s Higher, Anderson.Paak’s Lockdown, Kaytranada’s 10% and more.

List of Songs Discussed

•Higher by DJ Khaled

•Lockdown by Anderson.Paak

•10% by Kaytranada

•American Boy by Estelle

•& More

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