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- The sixty fifth Grammy Awards happen on Feb. 5, 2023.
- The Grammys have handed out the Greatest Rap Album award since 1996.
- Tyler, The Creator received the album in 2022 with CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST.
Hip-hop reigns supreme. The style — which continues to dominate the tradition and the charts, per Billboard – will get its accolades on the upcoming Grammy Awards. Although the Recording Academy has had an advanced historical past concerning hip-hop (a lot of the latest stars boycotting the present hail from the hip-hop world, and their grievances usually are not with out benefit), the present will highlight a handful of performers when it palms out the Greatest Rap Album award on Feb. 5, 2023.
The Grammys introduced in 1995 that they had been creating the Greatest Rap Album class six years after The Recording Academy created the Greatest Rap Efficiency Grammy. Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff received the inaugural Greatest Rap Efficiency Grammy in 1989 for “Mother and father Simply Don’t Perceive,” however led a boycott of the ceremony after the Grammys stated they wouldn’t air the Greatest Rap Efficiency class over broadcast time constraints.
“We don’t have the issue with the Grammy as an award or the Grammys as an establishment. We simply had an issue with the 1989 design of the awards present,” Will stated in a 1989 interview with Leisure Tonight. “We selected to boycott. We really feel that it’s a slap within the face.”
In 1996, on the thirty eighth Grammy Awards, Naughty By Nature received the primary Greatest Rap Album award for Poverty’s Paradise. The album beat out Skee-Lo’s I Want, Ol’ Soiled Bastard’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model, Bone Thugs-n-Concord’s E.1999 Everlasting, and 2Pac’s Me In opposition to the World. The next 12 months, Lauryn Hill turned the primary feminine artist to win within the class when she, as a part of Fugees, received Greatest Rap Album for The Rating. That 12 months, A Tribe Known as Quest (Beats, Rhymes and Life), 2Pac (All Eyez On Me), LL Cool J (Mr. Smith), and Coolio (Gangsta’s Paradise) had been all nominated.
Forward of the 2022 ceremony, Eminem reigns with probably the most wins (6) within the class. Kanye West (4) is shut behind. Solely Outkast and Kendrick Lamar have received Greatest Rap Album greater than as soon as. The Roots have probably the most nominations with no win (5), whereas Jay-Z has the file for many nominations, with eleven. Cardi has the excellence of being the primary solo feminine rapper to win Greatest Rap Album. She claimed the crown in 2019 with Invasion of Privateness.
This 12 months’s Nominees
The nominations for the Greatest Rap Album characteristic numerous acquainted faces. DJ Khaled‘s thirteenth studio album, God Did, scored a nomination, regardless of its mixed-to-negative reception amongst critics (it did debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, nevertheless.) The album options the same old crew, with Drake, SZA, Future, Rick Ross, Kanye “Ye” West, Lil Child, Eminem, and Travis Scott showing on songs. Equally, Jack Harlow‘s Come Dwelling The Youngsters Miss You was poorly obtained by critics, however the album was additionally nominated.
Future’s I NEVER LIKED YOU scored a Greatest Rap Album nod, as is Pusha T‘s It’s Virtually Dry. The favourite to win the class is Kendrick Lamar‘s Mr. Morale & the Massive Steppers. The album, which Complicated named its Greatest Album of 2022, already received Album of the 12 months on the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards and Favourite Hip Hop Album on the 2022 American Music Awards. Mr. Morale & the Massive Steppers can be up for Album of the 12 months on the 2023 Grammys, an accolade Ok.Dot has but to say.
Who will win? Followers should tune in on Feb. 5 to search out out. Within the meantime, he’s a rundown of the final twenty years price of Winners
All Latest Greatest Rap Album Grammy Winners
2023: TBD
- DJ Khaled, God Did
- Future, I By no means Favored You
- Jack Harlow, Come Dwelling The Youngsters Miss You
- Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers
- Pusha T, It’s Virtually Dry
2022: Tyler, The Creator, ‘CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’
- J. Cole’s The Off-Season
- Nas, The King’s Illness II
- Kanye West, Donda
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2021: Nas, ‘The King’s Illness’
Nas’s thirteenth studio album took the crown throughout the 63rd Grammy Awards. The album beat out:
- D Smoke’s Black Habits,
- Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony,
- Royce Da 5’9″ s The Allegory.
- Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist’s Alfredo
2020: Tyler, The Creator, ‘Igor’
Different nominees:
- Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers III
- Meek Mill’s Championships
- 21 Savage’s I Am > I Was
- Cordae’s The Misplaced Boy
2019: Cardi B, Invasion of Privateness
Different nominees:
- Mac Miller’s Swimming
- Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap
- Pusha T’s Daytona
- Travis Scott’s Astroworld.
2018: Kendrick Lamar, ‘Rattling’
Kendrick picked up his second Album of The 12 months award when Rattling beat out Jay-Z’s 4:44 to say the prize.
Different nominees:
- Migos’ Tradition,
- Rapsody, Laila’s Knowledge
- Tyler, The Creator’s Flower Boy.
- Jay-Z, 4:44
2017: Probability The Rapper, ‘Coloring E-book’
Probability The Rapper’s Coloring E-book made historical past when it received the Greatest Rap Album award in 2017. It was already the primary mixtape to chart on the Billboard 200 solely on streams, and it was the primary streaming-only album ever to win a Grammy.
Different nominees:
- De La Soul, and the Nameless No person…
- DJ Khaled, Main Key
- Drake, Views,
- ScHoolboy Q, Clean Face LP,
- Kanye West, The Lifetime of Pablo.
2016: Kendrick Lamar, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
Different nominees:
- J.Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive
- Dr. Dre, Compton
- Drake, If You’re Studying This It’s Too Late
- Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint
2015: Eminem, ‘The Marshall Mathers LP 2’
Different nominees:
- Iggy Azalea, The New Traditional
- Widespread, No person’s Smiling
- Infantile Gambino, As a result of the Web
- Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood
- ScHoolboy Q, Oxymoron
2014: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, ‘The Heist’
Maybe probably the most controversial win within the class’s brief life, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s The Heist took house the Greatest Rap Album award, beating Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar. Macklemore even apologized to Kendrick by way of a textual content (“You bought robbed. I wished you to win. It’s bizarre, and it sucks that I robbed you”), which Drake known as out for being “wack as f-ck.”
“That is how the world works: He made a model of music that appealed to extra folks than me, Hov, Kanye, and Kendrick,” Drake stated, per Rolling Stone. “Whether or not folks wanna say it’s racial, or whether or not it’s simply the truth that he tapped into one thing we will’t faucet into. That’s simply how the playing cards fall. Personal your shit.”
Different nominees:
- Drake, Nothing Was The Identical
- Jay-Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail
- Kendrick Lamar, Good Kidd, M.A.A.D. Metropolis
- Kanye West, Yeezus
2013: Drake, ‘Take Care’
Different nominees:
- 2 Chainz, Primarily based on a T.R.U. Story
- Lupe Fiasco, Meals & Liquor II: The Nice American Rap Album Pt. 1
- Nas, Life Is Good
- Rick Ross, God Forgives, I Don’t
- The Roots, Undun
2012: Kanye West, ‘My Lovely Darkish Twisted Fantasy’
Different nominees:
- Lupe Fiasco, Lasers
- Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
- Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday
- Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV
2011: Eminem, ‘Restoration’
Different nominees:
- 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 Obtained Over
2010: Eminem, ‘Relapse’
Different nominees:
- Widespread, Common Thoughts Management
- Flo Rida, R.O.O.T.S.
- Mos Def, The Ecstatic
- Q-Tip, The Renaissance
2009: Lil Wayne, ‘Tha Carter III’
Different nominees:
- Jay-Z, American Gangster
- Lupe Fiasco, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool
- Nas, Nas/Untitled
- T.I., Paper Path
2008: Kanye West, ‘Commencement’
Different nominees:
- Widespread, Discovering Endlessly
- Jay-Z, Kingdom Come
- Nas, Hip-Hop Is Useless
- T.I., T.I. vs. T.I.P.
2007: Ludacris, ‘Launch Remedy’
Different nominees:
- Lupe Fiasco, Meals & Liquor
- Pharrell, In my Thoughts
- The Roots, Sport Principle
- T.I., King
2006: Kanye West, ‘Late Registration’
Different nominees:
- 50 Cent, The Bloodbath
- Widespread, Be
- Missy Elliott, The Cookbook
- Eminem, Encore
2005: Kanye West, ‘The Faculty Dropout’
Different nominees:
- Beastie Boys, To the 5 Boroughs
- Jay-Z, The Black Album
- LL Cool J, The DEFinition
- Nelly, Go well with
2004: Outkast, ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Beneath’
Different nominees:
- 50 Cent, Get Wealthy or Die Making an attempt’
- Missy Elliott, Below Development
- Jay-Z, The Blueprint 2: The Present & the Curse
- The Roots, Phrenology
2003: Eminem, ‘The Eminem Present’
Different nominees:
- Ludacris, Phrase of Mouf
- Mystikal, Tarantula
- Nelly, Nellyville
- Petey Pablo, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry
2002: Outkast, ‘Stankonia’
Different nominees:
- Eve, Scorpion
- Ja Rule, Ache Is Love
- Jay-Z, The Blueprint
- Ludacris, Again for the First Time
2001: Eminem, ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’
Different nominees:
- DMX, …And Then There Was X
- Dr. Dre, 2001
- Jay-Z, Vol. 3…Life and Occasions of S. Carter
- Nelly, Nation Grammar
2000: Eminem, ‘The Slim Shady LP’
Different nominees:
- Busta Rhymes, E.L.E.: The Closing World Entrance
- Missy Elliot, Da Actual World
- Nas, I Am…
- The Roots, Issues Fall Aside
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