Post Malone led a powerful tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne at the 2026 Grammy Awards’ In Memoriam segment. He sang Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” with Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad Smith, and Andrew Watt. The performance had explosive stage effects like fireballs and guitars fighting, which kept the audience at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on the edge of their seats. Ozzy’s family, including Sharon, Kelly, and Jack Osbourne, watched from the crowd with tears in their eyes as the tribute moved them.
Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, died of a heart attack on July 5, 2025, at the age of 76. He had a legendary career with Black Sabbath that set the standard for heavy metal. “War Pigs,” from the 1970 album Paranoid, was the perfect anti-war song for the tribute, showing how much he still matters. Lauryn Hill and Reba McEntire also performed to honor other famous people, like D’Angelo and Roberta Flack.
The all-star lineup included Slash and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses, Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and producer Andrew Watt, who all brought raw energy to the stage with Post Malone. The cameras caught the band’s wild ending, when they threw their instruments in true rock ‘n’ roll style. This was a fitting Grammy send-off just a few months after Ozzy died.
