For those keeping score, Los Angeles had a big night at the 2020 Grammy Awards, even if Kobe Bryant’s death will forever mark the event in the minds of most residents. Billie Eilish, Tyler, the Creator and the late Nipsey Hussle were all born and raised in Los Angeles, and their families were in Staples Center to prove it. Add in Oxnard’s Anderson .Paak, who won two R&B awards, and it’s clear the home team earned this year’s bragging rights. After the awards ceremony was over, though, their families didn’t return to their “Los Angeles” homes. Each carried a perspective carved not by the Los Angeles of the popular imagination but inside homes in humble neighborhoods that feel more like small-town America than you might think.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 28, 2020 21:11 UTC