Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, in German " Grammy Award for Best Rap Album," is a music prize, which is awarded at the annual Grammy Awards. Excellent are musicians or bands for outstanding albums, is rapped on which, ie, mainly albums from the genre of hip hop music.

Background and History

The since 1958 awarded Grammy Awards (actually Gramophone Awards) are presented annually in several categories of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ( NARAS ) in the United States of America to artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance without regard to the album to honor sales or chart position.

A dedicated Grammy Award for Best Rap Album range was introduced in 1995 and first awarded at the 37th Grammy awards in 1996. Prize winner was the band Naughty by Nature. According to the category description, the price of albums is awarded to make up at least 51 % playing time of newly ingested, rapped shares. The winners include often next to the artists and producers, engineers and mixers of excellent albums.

The price was so far only to artists from the United States. By 2011, no female solo artists have been awarded; the now -resolved band Fugees however had a singer with Lauryn Hill. With five wins Eminem received the award so far the most common. Kanye West received the award four times and the duo Outkast has been awarded twice. With nine nominations, Jay -Z has been nominated most frequently (once together with Kanye West), he could win the prize but only once. Missy Elliott and The Roots were nominated four times, but not received the award previously.

Winners and nominated artists

  • 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
  • A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes & Life
  • Coolio - Gangsta 's Paradise
  • LL Cool J - Mr. Smith
  • Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
  • Wyclef Jean - Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival
  • The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
  • Wu -Tang Clan - Wu -Tang Forever
  • A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
  • Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
  • Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1472
  • Mase - Harlem World
  • Busta Rhymes - E.L.E. ( Extinction Level Event ): The Final World Front
  • Missy Elliott - Da Real World
  • Nas - I Am ...
  • The Roots - Things Fall Apart
  • DMX - ... And Then There Was X
  • Dr. Dre - 2001
  • Jay -Z - Vol 3 .. Life and Times of S. Carter
  • Nelly - Country Grammar
  • Ludacris - Word of Mouf
  • Mystikal - Tarantula
  • Nelly - Nelly Ville
  • Petey Pablo - Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry
  • 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin '
  • Missy Elliott - Under Construction
  • Jay -Z - The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse
  • The Roots - Phrenology
  • Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
  • Jay -Z - The Black Album
  • Nelly - Suit
  • 50 Cent - The Massacre
  • Common - Be
  • Missy Elliott - The Cookbook
  • Eminem - Encore
  • Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco 's Food & Liquor
  • Pharrell - In My Mind
  • The Roots - Game Theory
  • T.I. - King
  • Common - Finding Forever
  • Jay -Z - Kingdom Come
  • Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead
  • T.I. - T.I. vs.. T.I.P.
  • Jay -Z - American Gangster
  • Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco 's The Cool
  • Nas - Untitled
  • T.I. - Paper Trail
  • Common - Universal Mind Control
  • Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S.
  • Mos Def - The Ecstatic
  • Q-Tip - The Renaissance
  • Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1
  • Nas - Life Is Good
  • The Roots - Undun
  • Rick Ross - God Forgives, I Do not
  • 2 Chainz - Based On A T.R.U. story
  • Drake - Nothing Was the Same
  • Jay -Z - Magna Carta Holy Grail
  • Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
  • Kanye West - Yeezus

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