Grammy Award for Best Rap Album






























Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
Awarded for Quality albums with rapping
Country United States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded 1996
Last awarded
Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy (2019)
Website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums with rapping at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[1] Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]


In 1995, the Academy announced the addition of the award category Best Rap Album.[3] The first award was presented to the group Naughty by Nature at the 38th Grammy Awards the following year. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented for "albums containing at least 51% playing time of tracks with newly recorded rapped performances".[4] Award recipients often include the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists.[5]


As of 2019, Eminem holds the record for the most wins in this category, with six. Lauryn Hill was the first female artist to win in this category, when she won in 1997 with the Fugees. Cardi B became the first solo female rapper to win for Invasion of Privacy.[6]Kanye West was presented the award four times, and the duo known as Outkast received the award twice. Jay-Z holds the record for the most nominations, with eleven. Drake became the first non-American winner in this category when he won in 2013. The Roots have received the most nominations without a win, with five. Eminem and West are the only artists to win the award in consecutive years, with Eminem achieving the feat twice. In 2016, Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late became the first mixtape to get nominated for the award. In 2017, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book became the first mixtape to win the award.




Contents






  • 1 Recipients


  • 2 Artists with multiple wins


  • 3 Artists with multiple nominations


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Recipients



A man wearing a white dress shirt, tie, gray vest, black jacket, and sunglasses, singing into a microphone.


1998 winner Sean Combs (credited as Puff Daddy), performing in 2006



A man on a stage holding a microphone and wearing a hooded jacket, a white shirt, and blue jeans.

Six-time award winner Eminem, performing in 2009



A man holding a microphone and wearing white sunglasses, black clothing and a chain around his neck.

Four-time award winner Kanye West



A man wearing a striped suit and earrings.


2007 award winner, Ludacris





2009 award winner, Lil Wayne





2013 award winner, Drake



A man performing on stage

Two-time award winner, Kendrick Lamar





2019 award winner, Cardi B, the first solo female rapper to win the award


















































































































































































Year[I]
Recipients
Work
Nominees
Ref.

1996

Naughty by Nature

Poverty's Paradise




  • 2Pac – Me Against the World


  • Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – E. 1999 Eternal


  • Ol' Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version


  • Skee-Lo – I Wish



[7]

1997

Fugees
 · Fugees, producers


The Score




  • 2Pac – All Eyez On Me


  • A Tribe Called Quest – Beats, Rhymes and Life


  • Coolio – Gangsta's Paradise


  • LL Cool J – Mr. Smith



[8]

1998

Puff Daddy and the Family
 · Puff Daddy And The Family & Stevie J. producers


No Way Out




  • Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly


  • Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival


  • The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death


  • Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever



[9]

1999

Jay-Z
 · Joe Quinde, engineer/mixer


Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life




  • A Tribe Called Quest – The Love Movement


  • Big Punisher – Capital Punishment


  • Jermaine Dupri – Life in 1472


  • Mase – Harlem World



[10]

2000

Eminem
 · Eminem, Jeff Bass & Marky Bass, producers
 · Mr. B, engineer/mixer


The Slim Shady LP




  • Busta Rhymes – E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front


  • Missy Elliott – Da Real World


  • Nas – I Am...


  • The Roots – Things Fall Apart



[11]

2001

Eminem
 · Dr. Dre & Richard Huredia, engineers/mixers


The Marshall Mathers LP




  • DMX – ...And Then There Was X


  • Dr. Dre – 2001


  • Jay-Z – Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter


  • Nelly – Country Grammar



[12]

2002

Outkast
 · David Sheats, producer
 · John Frye, engineer


Stankonia




  • Eve – Scorpion


  • Ja Rule – Pain Is Love


  • Jay-Z – The Blueprint


  • Ludacris – Back for the First Time



[13]

2003

Eminem
 · Steve King, engineer/mixer


The Eminem Show




  • Ludacris – Word of Mouf


  • Mystikal – Tarantula


  • Nelly – Nellyville


  • Petey Pablo – Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry



[14]

2004

Outkast
 · John Frye, engineer/mixer


Speakerboxxx/The Love Below




  • 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin'


  • Missy Elliott – Under Construction


  • Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse


  • The Roots – Phrenology



[15]

2005

Kanye West
 · Manny Marroquin, engineer/mixer


The College Dropout




  • Beastie Boys – To the 5 Boroughs


  • Jay-Z – The Black Album


  • LL Cool J – The DEFinition


  • Nelly – Suit



[16]

2006

Kanye West
 · Jon Brion, producer
 · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Tom Biller, engineers
 · Mike Dean, engineer/mixer


Late Registration




  • 50 Cent – The Massacre


  • Common – Be


  • Missy Elliott – The Cookbook


  • Eminem – Encore



[17]

2007

Ludacris
 · Joshua Monroy & Phil Tan, engineers/mixers


Release Therapy




  • Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor


  • Pharrell – In My Mind


  • The Roots – Game Theory


  • T.I. – King



[18]

2008

Kanye West
 · Kanye West, producer
 · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean, engineers


Graduation




  • Common – Finding Forever


  • Jay-Z – Kingdom Come


  • Nas – Hip-Hop Is Dead


  • T.I. – T.I. vs. T.I.P.



[19]

2009

Lil Wayne
 · Darius "Deezle" Harrison & Fabian Marasciullo, engineers


Tha Carter III




  • Jay-Z – American Gangster


  • Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool


  • Nas – Untitled


  • T.I. – Paper Trail



[20]

2010

Eminem
 · Andre Young, producer
 · Andre Young, Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri & Michael Strange, engineers/mixers


Relapse




  • Common – Universal Mind Control


  • Flo Rida – R.O.O.T.S.


  • Mos Def – The Ecstatic


  • Q-Tip – The Renaissance



[21]

2011

Eminem
 · Eminem & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers


Recovery




  • B.o.B – B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray


  • Drake – Thank Me Later


  • Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3


  • The Roots – How I Got Over



[22]

2012

Kanye West
 · Kanye West, producer
 · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Dean & Noah Goldstein, engineers/mixers


My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy




  • Lupe Fiasco – Lasers


  • Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne


  • Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday


  • Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV



[23]

2013

Drake
 · Noah "40" Shebib, producer
 · Noel "Gadget" Campbell & Noah "40" Shebib, engineers/mixers


Take Care




  • 2 Chainz – Based on a T.R.U. Story


  • Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1


  • Nas – Life Is Good


  • Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don't


  • The Roots – Undun



[24]

2014

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
 · Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, engineers/mixers


The Heist




  • Drake – Nothing Was the Same


  • Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail


  • Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City


  • Kanye West – Yeezus



[25]

2015

Eminem
 · Tony Campana, Joe Strange & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers


The Marshall Mathers LP 2




  • Iggy Azalea – The New Classic


  • Common – Nobody's Smiling


  • Childish Gambino – Because the Internet


  • Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood


  • ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron



[26]

2016

Kendrick Lamar
 · Derek "MixedByAli" Ali & James "The White Black Man" Hunt, engineers/mixers


To Pimp a Butterfly




  • J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive


  • Dr. Dre – Compton


  • Drake – If You're Reading This It's Too Late


  • Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint




[27]
[28]

2017

Chance the Rapper

Coloring Book




  • De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody...


  • DJ Khaled – Major Key


  • Drake – Views


  • ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP


  • Kanye West – The Life of Pablo



[29]

2018

Kendrick Lamar

Damn




  • Jay-Z – 4:44


  • Migos – Culture


  • Rapsody – Laila's Wisdom


  • Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy



[30]

2019

Cardi B

Invasion of Privacy




  • Mac Miller – Swimming


  • Nipsey Hussle – Victory Lap


  • Pusha T – Daytona


  • Travis Scott – Astroworld



[31]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.



Artists with multiple wins












Artists with multiple nominations












See also




  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance

  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Song

  • Hip hop music



References


General


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