Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
Recipients
Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

Section Title: Recipients
Table Section Text: Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Year	Recipients	Work	Nominees	Ref.

1996	Naughty by Nature	Poverty's Paradise	2Pac – Me Against the World Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – E. 1999 Eternal Ol' Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Skee-Lo – I Wish

1997	Fugees · Fugees, producers	The Score	2Pac – All Eyez On Me A Tribe Called Quest – Beats, Rhymes and Life Coolio – Gangsta's Paradise LL Cool J – Mr.

1998	Puff Daddy and the Family · Puff Daddy And The Family & Stevie J. producers	No Way Out	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

1999	Jay-Z · Joe Quinde, engineer/mixer	Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life	A Tribe Called Quest – The Love Movement Big Punisher – Capital Punishment Jermaine Dupri – Life in 1472 Mase – Harlem World

2000	Eminem · Eminem, Jeff Bass & Marky Bass, producers · Mr. B, engineer/mixer	The Slim Shady LP	Busta Rhymes – E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front Missy Elliott – Da Real World Nas – I Am...

2001	Eminem · Dr. Dre & Richard Huredia, engineers/mixers	The Marshall Mathers LP	DMX – ...And Then There Was X Dr. Dre – 2001 Jay-Z – Vol.

2002	Outkast · David Sheats, producer · John Frye, engineer	Stankonia	Eve – Scorpion Ja Rule – Pain Is Love Jay-Z – The Blueprint Ludacris – Back for the First Time

2003	Eminem · Steve King, engineer/mixer	The Eminem Show	Ludacris – Word of Mouf Mystikal – Tarantula Nelly – Nellyville Petey Pablo – Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry

2004	Outkast · John Frye, engineer/mixer	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin' Missy Elliott – Under Construction Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse The Roots – Phrenology

2005	Kanye West · Manny Marroquin, engineer/mixer	The College Dropout	Beastie Boys – To the 5 Boroughs Jay-Z – The Black Album LL Cool J – The DEFinition Nelly – Suit

2006	Kanye West · Jon Brion, producer · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Tom Biller, engineers · Mike Dean, engineer/mixer	Late Registration	50 Cent – The Massacre Common – Be Missy Elliott – The Cookbook Eminem – Encore

2007	Ludacris · Joshua Monroy & Phil Tan, engineers/mixers	Release Therapy	Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Pharrell – In My Mind The Roots – Game Theory T.I. – King

2008	Kanye West · Kanye West, producer · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean, engineers	Graduation	Common – Finding Forever Jay-Z – Kingdom Come Nas – Hip-Hop Is Dead T.I. – T.I. vs. T.I.P.

2009	Lil Wayne · Darius "Deezle" Harrison & Fabian Marasciullo, engineers	Tha Carter III	Jay-Z – American Gangster Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool Nas – Untitled T.I. – Paper Trail

2010	Eminem · Andre Young, producer · Andre Young, Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri & Michael Strange, engineers/mixers	Relapse	Common – Universal Mind Control Flo Rida – R.O.O.T.S. Mos Def – The Ecstatic Q-Tip – The Renaissance

2011	Eminem · Eminem & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers	Recovery	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

2012	Kanye West · Kanye West, producer · Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Dean & Noah Goldstein, engineers/mixers	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Lupe Fiasco – Lasers Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch the Throne Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV

2013	Drake · Noah "40" Shebib, producer · Noel "Gadget" Campbell & Noah "40" Shebib, engineers/mixers	Take Care	2 Chainz – Based on a T.R.U. Story Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt.

2014	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis · Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, engineers/mixers	The Heist	Drake – Nothing Was the Same Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Kanye West – Yeezus

2015	Eminem · Tony Campana, Joe Strange & Mike Strange, engineers/mixers	The Marshall Mathers LP 2	Iggy Azalea – The New Classic Common – Nobody's Smiling Childish Gambino – Because the Internet Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron

2016	Kendrick Lamar · Derek "MixedByAli" Ali & James "The White Black Man" Hunt, engineers/mixers	To Pimp a Butterfly	J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive Dr.

2017	Chance the Rapper	Coloring Book	De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody... DJ Khaled – Major Key Drake – Views ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

2018	Kendrick Lamar	Damn	Jay-Z – 4:44 Migos – Culture Rapsody – Laila's Wisdom Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy

2019	Cardi B	Invasion of Privacy	Mac Miller – Swimming Nipsey Hussle – Victory Lap Travis Scott – Astroworld Pusha T - Daytona

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In 2017, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

final_sentence: In 2017, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.