LOS ANGELES - Ludacris gave a "special shout-out" to Oprah Winfrey and Bill O'Reilly as he picked up the Grammy for best rap album Sunday night.

"I love ya," said the rapper-actor, tongue firmly in cheek.

Ludacris has been critical of Winfrey, who he has said edited out many of his comments when he was a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Other rappers 50 Cent and Ice Cube have suggested Winfrey has "a problem with hip-hop."

Winfrey has insisted she does listen to hip-hop. A message left with her show wasn't immediately returned late Sunday.

O'Reilly criticized Ludacris on his Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor," which led to Pepsi dropping Ludacris in an ad campaign.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J. Blige may have set an awards-show record to go with the armful of Grammys she won Sunday: most people thanked in a single acceptance speech.

Accepting her R&B album of the year award for "The Breakthrough," Blige dropped 55 names — including God, Jesus, her three children, countless record-company executives and the tape delivery guy.

Blige talked for nearly two minutes — an eternity on a televised awards show — including going on for a good 30 seconds after the music started playing to signal her to wind down, spitting out names faster and faster as the music swelled.

Accepting her second televised award for best female R&B vocal, she held it to a lean, TV-friendly 35 seconds.

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