Grammy Award for Best Rap Album (Grammy Awards)

Grammy Awards

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. 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". In 1995, the Academy announced the addition of the award category Best Rap Album. 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". Award recipients often include the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. As of 2013, Eminem holds the record for the most wins in this category, with five. 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.

Check all the winners of Grammy Award for Best Rap Album presented under Grammy Awards since 1995 .

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Honored for : The Heist

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Drake	Nothing Was the Same
Jay-Z	Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Kendrick Lamar	good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kanye West	Yeezus
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	The Heist

Drake, Noel "Gadget" Campbell, Noah "40" Shebib

Honored for : Take Care

(Artist, Engineer/Mixer, Engineer/Mixer, Producer)

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Drake	Take Care
Noel "Gadget" Campbell	Take Care
Noah "40" Shebib	Take Care
Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Part 1
Nas	Life Is Good
The Roots	undun
Rick Ross	God Forgives, I Don't
2 Chainz	Based On a T.R.U. Story

Kanye West

Honored for : My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
	Watch the Throne
Lil Wayne	Tha Carter IV
Lupe Fiasco	Lasers
Nicki Minaj	Pink Friday

Eminem, Mike Strange

Honored for : Recovery

(Engineers/mixers, Artists)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Eminem	Recovery 2011 Best Rap Album
Mike Strange	Recovery 2011 Best Rap Album
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

Eminem, Dr. Dre, Mauricio Iragorri, Mike Strange

Honored for : Relapse

(Engineers/Mixers, Dr. Dre - Producer)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Common	Universal Mind Control
Eminem	Relapse
Mike Strange	Relapse
Mauricio Iragorri	Relapse
Dr. Dre	Relapse
Flo Rida	R.O.O.T.S.
Mos Def	The Ecstatic
Q-Tip	The Renaissance

Deezle, Fabian Marasciullo, Lil Wayne

Honored for : Tha Carter III

(Artist, Engineers)

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jay-Z	American Gangster
Lupe Fiasco	The Cool
Nas	Untitled Nas album
Lil Wayne	Tha Carter III
T.I.	Paper Trail

Kanye West, Mike Dean, Anthony Kilhoffer, Andrew Dawson

Honored for : Graduation

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jay-Z	Kingdom Come
T.I.	T.I. vs. T.I.P.
Nas	Hip Hop Is Dead
Common	Finding Forever
Mike Dean	Graduation
Kanye West	Graduation
Anthony Kilhoffer	Graduation
Andrew Dawson	Graduation

Phil Tan, Joshua Monroy, Ludacris

Honored for : Release Therapy

(Artist, Engineers/mixers)

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
The Roots	Game Theory
Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor
T.I.	King
Pharrell Williams	In My Mind
Ludacris	Release Therapy
Phil Tan	Release Therapy
Joshua Monroy	Release Therapy

Kanye West, Anthony Kilhoffer, Andrew Dawson, Jon Brion, Mike Dean, Tom Biller

Honored for : Late Registration

(Engineer/mixer, Engineers, Artist, Producer)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Mike Dean	Late Registration
Kanye West	Late Registration
Andrew Dawson	Late Registration
Tom Biller	Late Registration
Anthony Kilhoffer	Late Registration
Jon Brion	Late Registration
50 Cent	The Massacre
Missy Elliott	The Cookbook
Common	Be
Eminem	Encore

Kanye West, Manny Marroquin

Honored for : The College Dropout

(Artist, Engineer/Mixer)

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Jay-Z	The Black Album
LL Cool J	The DEFinition
Nelly	Suit
Beastie Boys	To the 5 Boroughs
Kanye West	The College Dropout

Outkast, John Frye

Honored for : Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

(Artist, engineer/mixer)

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Missy Elliott	Under Construction
50 Cent	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
The Roots	Phrenology
Jay-Z	The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
John Frye	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Eminem, Steve King

Honored for : The Eminem Show

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Eminem	The Eminem Show
Steve King	The Eminem Show
Ludacris	Word of Mouf
Mystikal	Tarantula
Nelly	Nellyville
Petey Pablo	Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry

John Frye, Outkast, Mr. DJ

Honored for : Stankonia

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Eve	Scorpion
Ja Rule	Pain Is Love
Ludacris	Back For the First Time
Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3
John Frye	Stankonia
Mr. DJ	Stankonia
Outkast	Stankonia

Richard Huredia, Dr. Dre, Eminem

Honored for : The Marshall Mathers LP

(Dr. Dre & Richard Huredia - engineers/mixers.)

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Nelly	Country Grammar
Jay-Z	Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
DMX	...And Then There Was X
Dr. Dre	2001
Dr. Dre	The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP
Richard Huredia	The Marshall Mathers LP

Mr. B, Eminem, Bass Brothers

Honored for : The Slim Shady LP

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Nas	I Am...
Busta Rhymes	Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front
Missy Elliott	Da Real World
The Roots	Things Fall Apart
Bass Brothers	The Slim Shady LP
Mr. B	The Slim Shady LP
Eminem	The Slim Shady LP

Jay-Z, Joe Quinde

Honored for : Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
A Tribe Called Quest	The Love Movement
Jermaine Dupri	Life In 1472
Big Pun	Capital Punishment
Mase	Harlem World
Jay-Z	Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
Joe Quinde	Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Puff Daddy & The Family

Honored for : No Way Out

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Missy Elliott	Supa Dupa Fly
Wu-Tang Clan	Wu-Tang Forever
Wyclef Jean	The Carnival
The Notorious B.I.G.	Life After Death
Puff Daddy & The Family	No Way Out

Fugees

Honored for : The Score

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Coolio	Gangsta's Paradise
Tupac Shakur	All Eyez on Me
A Tribe Called Quest	Beats, Rhymes and Life
LL Cool J	Mr. Smith
Fugees	The Score

Naughty by Nature

Honored for : Poverty's Paradise

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Naughty by Nature	Poverty's Paradise
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	E. 1999 Eternal
Ol' Dirty Bastard	Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Skee-Lo	I Wish
Tupac Shakur	Me Against the World

Grammy Award for Best Rap Album