Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

Eminem was the most common winner to date with six wins

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album , in German "Grammy Award for the best rap album", is a music prize that is presented at the annual Grammy Awards . Musicians or bands are honored for outstanding albums that are rapped on, i.e. mainly albums from the genre of hip-hop music.

Background and story

Jay-Z has been nominated eleven times for this award, but has only won once

The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America for artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of the album - Honor sales or chart position.

A separate Grammy Award for the Best Rap Album category was introduced in 1995 and first presented at the 37th Grammy Awards in 1996. The winner was the band Naughty by Nature . According to the category description, the award is given for albums on which at least 51% of the playing time consists of newly recorded, rapped parts. In addition to the artists, the award winners often include the producers, technicians and mixers of the awarded albums.

So far, the award has only gone to artists from the United States. No female solo artists were honored until 2011; the now disbanded band Fugees had a singer with Lauryn Hill . With six wins, Eminem has received the prize most frequently to date. Kanye West received the award four times and the duo OutKast received two awards. With eleven nominations, Jay-Z has so far been nominated most frequently (once together with Kanye West), but he could only win the award once. Missy Elliott and The Roots have each been nominated four times, but have not yet received the award.

Winner and nominated artist

year	Artist / band	nationality	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
1996 February 28, 1996	Naughty by Nature	United States	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
1997 February 26, 1997	Fugees	United States	The Score	2Pac - All Eyez on Me A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes & Life Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise LL Cool J - Mr. Smith
1998 February 25, 1998	Puff Daddy and the Family	United States	No way out	Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly Wyclef Jean - Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival The Notorious BIG - Life After Death Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
1999 February 25, 1999	Jay-Z	United States	Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life	A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement Big Punisher - Capital Punishment Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1472 Mase - Harlem World
2000 February 23, 2000	Eminem	United States	The Slim Shady LP	Busta Rhymes - ELE (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front Missy Elliott - Da Real World Nas - I Am ... The Roots - Things Fall Apart
2001 February 23, 2001	Eminem	United States	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
2002 February 27, 2002	OutKast	United States	Stankonia	Eve - Scorpion Yes Rule - Pain Is Love Jay-Z - The Blueprint Ludacris - Back for the First Time
2003 February 27, 2003	Eminem	United States	The Eminem Show	Ludacris - Word of Mouf Mystical - tarantula Nelly - Nellyville Petey Pablo - Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry
2004 February 8, 2004	OutKast	United States	Speakerboxxx / The Love Below	50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin ' Missy Elliott - Under Construction Jay-Z - The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse The Roots - Phrenology
2005 February 13, 2005	Kanye West	United States	The College Dropout	Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs Jay-Z - The Black Album LL Cool J - The DEFinition Nelly - suit
2006 February 8, 2006	Kanye West	United States	Late registration	50 cents - The Massacre Common - Be Missy Elliott - The Cookbook Eminem - Encore
2007 February 11, 2007	Ludacris	United States	Release Therapy	Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Pharrell - In My Mind The Roots - Game Theory TI - King
2008 February 10, 2008	Kanye West	United States	Graduation	Common - Finding Forever Jay-Z - Kingdom Come Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead TI - TI vs. TIP
2009 February 8, 2009	Lil Wayne	United States	Tha Carter III	Jay-Z - American gangster Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool Nas - Untitled TI - Paper Trail
2010 January 31, 2010	Eminem	United States	Relapse	Common - Universal Mind Control Flo Rida - ROOTS Mos Def - The Ecstatic Q-Tip - The Renaissance
2011 February 13, 2011	Eminem	United States	Recovery	BoB - BoB Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray Drake - Thank Me Later Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 The Roots - How I Got Over
2012 February 12, 2012	Kanye West	United States	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV Lupe Fiasco - Lasers Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
2013 February 10, 2013	Drake	United States	take care	Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 Nas - Life Is Good The Roots - Undun Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Don't 2 Chainz - Based on a TRU Story
2014 January 26th	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	United States	The Heist	Drake - Nothing Was the Same Jay-Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, Maad City Kanye West - Yeezus
2015 February 8, 2015	Eminem	United States	The Marshall Mathers LP 2	Iggy Azalea - The New Classic Childish Gambino - Because the Internet Common - Nobody's Smiling Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood
2016 February 15, 2016	Kendrick Lamar	United States	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
2017 February 12, 2017	Chance the rapper	United States	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
2018 January 28, 2018	Kendrick Lamar	United States	DAMN.	Jay-Z - 4:44 Migos - Culture Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
2019 February 10, 2019	Cardi B	United States	Invasion of Privacy	Mac Miller - Swimming Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap Pusha T - Daytona Travis Scott - Astroworld
2020 January 26th, 2020	Tyler, the Creator	United States	Igor	Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers III Meek Mill - Championships 21 Savage - I Am> I Was YBN Cordae - The Lost Boy

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1. ↑ “ honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position ” Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
2. ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved July 19, 2010.
3. ↑ Dinos Lambropoulos: Grammy Awards will stay in Los Angeles . In: The Daily Gazette , May 25, 1995, p. C6. Retrieved October 22, 2010. 
4. ↑ for “albums containing at least 51% playing time of tracks with newly recorded rapped performances” - 52nd OEP Category Description Guide ( PDF ; 85 kB) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 14, 2011. 
5. ^ Past Winners Search . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Accessed on September 11, 2014. Attention: Please select the category "Rap" in the search window.
6. ^ Dan Auerbach, Fun., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West Lead 55th GRAMMY Nominations , Recording Academy Press Release, December 5, 2012.
7. ↑ 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees. From: grammy.com, accessed December 6, 2012.

Web links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards
• Grammy Awards: Best Rap Album. In: Rock on the Net. (English). 

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