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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
Michael by Killer Mike is the most recent recipient
Awarded forQuality albums with rapping
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1996
Last awardedKiller Mike, Michael (2024)
Most awardsEminem (6)
Websitegrammy.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 2023, 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. The duo Outkast and rapper Tyler, The Creator have both 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, and in 2017, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book became the first mixtape to win the award. Cardi B became the first solo female rapper to win for Invasion of Privacy.[6]

Recipients

1998 winner Sean Combs (credited as Puff Daddy), performing in 2010
Six-time award winner Eminem, performing in 2014
Four-time award winner Kanye West
2007 award winner Ludacris
2009 award winner Lil Wayne
2013 award winner Drake
Three-time award winner Kendrick Lamar
2019 award winner Cardi B, the first solo female rapper to win the award
Year[I] Recipient(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1996 Naughty by Nature Poverty's Paradise [7]
1997 Fugees
 · Fugees, producers 		The Score [8]
1998 Puff Daddy and the Family
 · Puff Daddy And The Family & Stevie J. producers 		No Way Out [9]
1999 Jay-Z
 · Joe Quinde, engineer/mixer 		Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life [10]
2000 Eminem
 · Eminem, Jeff Bass & Marky Bass, producers; Mr. B, engineer/mixer 		The Slim Shady LP [11]
2001 Eminem
 · Dr. Dre & Richard Huredia, engineers/mixers 		The Marshall Mathers LP [12]
2002 Outkast
 · David Sheats, producer; John Frye, engineer 		Stankonia [13]
2003 Eminem
 · Steve King, engineer/mixer 		The Eminem Show [14]
2004 Outkast
 · John Frye, engineer/mixer 		Speakerboxxx/The Love Below [15]
2005 Kanye West
 · Manny Marroquin, engineer/mixer 		The College Dropout [16]
2006 Kanye West
 · Kanye West & Jon Brion, producers; Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Tom Biller, engineers; Mike Dean, engineer/mixer 		Late Registration [17]
2007 Ludacris
 · Joshua Monroy & Phil Tan, engineers/mixers 		Release Therapy [18]
2008 Kanye West
 · Kanye West, producer; Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean, engineers 		Graduation [19]
2009 Lil Wayne
 · Darius "Deezle" Harrison & Fabian Marasciullo, engineers 		Tha Carter III [20]
2010 Eminem
 · Andre Young, producer; Andre Young, Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri & Michael Strange, engineers/mixers 		Relapse [21]
2011 Eminem
 · Eminem & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers 		Recovery [22]
2012 Kanye West
 · Kanye West, producer; Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Dean & Noah Goldstein, engineers/mixers 		My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [23]
2013 Drake
 · Noah "40" Shebib, producer; Noel "Gadget" Campbell & Noah "40" Shebib, engineers/mixers 		Take Care [24]
2014 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Heist [25]
2015 Eminem
 · Tony Campana, Joe Strange & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers 		The Marshall Mathers LP 2 [26]
2016 Kendrick Lamar
 · Derek "MixedByAli" Ali & James "The White Black Man" Hunt, engineers/mixers 		To Pimp a Butterfly [27]
[28]
2017 Chance the Rapper
 · Jeff Lane, engineer/mixer 		Coloring Book [29]
2018 Kendrick Lamar
 · Sounwave & Anthony "Topdawg" Tiffith, producers; Derek "MixedByAli" Ali, James "The White Black Man" Hunt & Matt Schaeffer, engineers/mixers 		DAMN. [30]
[31]
2019 Cardi B
 · Leslie Brathwaite & Evan LaRay, engineers/mixers 		Invasion of Privacy [32]
2020 Tyler, the Creator
 · Tyler, The Creator, producer; Neal H Pogue, Tyler, The Creator & Vic Wainstein, engineers/mixers 		Igor [33]
2021 Nas
 · Hit-Boy, producer; Mark "Exit" Goodchild, Hit-Boy, David Kim & Gabriel Zardes, engineers/mixers 		King's Disease [34]
2022 Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost [36]
2023 Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers [37]
2024 Killer Mike Michael [38]
2025 TBA TBA [39]

^[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

References

General

Specific

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Rap_Album