page_title: Grammy Award for Best Rap Song
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Grammy Award for Best Rap Song / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Kanye West performing at Staples Center on December 11, 2011 in Los Angeles on the Watch the Throne Tour.
context_page_description: The Grammy Award for Best Rap Song is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs in the rap music genre. 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".
  The award was first presented to Eminem along with Jeff Bass and Luis Resto for the song "Lose Yourself" from the soundtrack 8 Mile in 2004. According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide, the award honors the songwriter of new songs or songs "first achieving prominence during the period of eligibility". Songs containing prominent samples may be eligible.
  Kanye West holds the records for the most wins and nominations in this category, having won six times out of fifteen nominations. Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are the only songwriters to have won the category more than once.
caption: Kanye West the most awarded performer with six wins
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