Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

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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 2015
Official 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 2015, Eminem holds the record for the most wins in this category, with six. Lauryn Hill is currently the only female to win in this category, when she won in 1997 with the Fugees. 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 nine, which resulted in one win. Canadian artist Drake became the first non-American winner in this category, winning in 2013. The Roots have received the most nominations without a win, with five.

Recipients

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1998 winner Sean Combs (credited as Puff Daddy), performing in 2006
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Six-time award winner Eminem, performing in 2009

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2007 award winner, Ludacris
2009 award winner, Lil Wayne
2013 award winner, Drake
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1996 Naughty by Nature Poverty's Paradise [6]
1997 Fugees The Score [7]
1998 Puff Daddy and the Family No Way Out [8]
1999 Jay-Z Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life [9]
2000 Eminem The Slim Shady LP [10]
2001 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP [11]
2002 Outkast Stankonia [12]
2003 Eminem The Eminem Show [13]
2004 Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below [14]
2005 Kanye West The College Dropout [15]
2006 Kanye West Late Registration [16]
2007 Ludacris Release Therapy [15]
2008 Kanye West Graduation [17]
2009 Lil Wayne Tha Carter III [18]
2010 Eminem Relapse [19]
2011 Eminem Recovery [20]
2012 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2013 Drake Take Care
2014 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
2015 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
2016 [21]

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

See also

References

General
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