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First Black Rapper to Get a Grammy 1999

Honor presented to recording artists for quality rap albums

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 Nas, King's Disease (2021)
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 2020, 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 as well as Kendrick Lamar have 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.

Recipients [edit]

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

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.

A man wearing a striped suit and earrings.

A man performing on stage

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

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

Artists with multiple wins [edit]

6 wins
  • Eminem
4 wins
  • Kanye West
2 wins
  • Outkast
  • Kendrick Lamar

Artists with multiple nominations [edit]

See also [edit]

  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Song
  • Hip hop music

References [edit]

General

  • "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 4, 2011. Note: User must select the "Rap" category as the genre under the search feature.
  • "Grammy Awards: Best Rap Album". Rock on the Net. Retrieved July 30, 2010.

Specific

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  28. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-10-17 . CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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First Black Rapper to Get a Grammy 1999

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Album