Grammy Award: Best Rap Album nominees

~ Release group award

Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1996	1995	Me Against the World	2Pac	Album	4.1	13
1996	1995	Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version	Ol’ Dirty Bastard	Album	4.5	11
1996	1995	I Wish	Skee‐Lo	Album	4	8
1996	1995	E. 1999 Eternal	Bone Thugs‐n‐Harmony	Album	4.35	12
1996 winner	1995	Poverty’s Paradise	Naughty by Nature	Album		9
1997	1995	Gangsta’s Paradise	Coolio	Album	3.4	13
1997	1995	Mr. Smith	LL Cool J	Album	4	12
1997	1996	All Eyez on Me	2Pac	Album	4.6	20
1997	1996	Beats, Rhymes and Life	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	3.65	11
1997 winner	1996	The Score	Fugees (Refugee Camp)	Album	3.3	24
1998	1997	Life After Death	The Notorious B.I.G.	Album	4	15
1998	1997	Wu‐Tang Forever	Wu‐Tang Clan	Album	4.35	10
1998	1997	The Carnival	Wyclef Jean featuring Refugee Allstars	Album	3	5
1998	1997	Supa Dupa Fly	Missy Misdemeanor Elliott	Album	3.65	8
1998 winner	1997	No Way Out	Puff Daddy & the Family	Album	2	11
1999	1997	Harlem World	Mase	Album		5
1999	1998	Capital Punishment	Big Pun	Album	4.5	7
1999	1998	Life in 1472	Jermaine Dupri	Album	5	2
1999	1998	The Love Movement	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	3.5	10
1999 winner	1998	Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life	Jay‐Z	Album	4	8
2000	1998	Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front	Busta Rhymes	Album	3.65	22
2000	1999	Things Fall Apart	The Roots	Album	3.8	11
2000	1999	I Am…	Nas	Album	3.5	9
2000	1999	Da Real World	Missy Misdemeanor Elliott	Album	4	6
2000 winner	1999	The Slim Shady LP	Eminem	Album	4.05	17
2001	1999	2001	Dr. Dre	Album	4.2	17
2001	1999	Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter	JAY‐Z	Album	3	8
2001	1999	…And Then There Was X	DMX	Album	3	10
2001	2000	Country Grammar	Nelly	Album	3.8	7
2001 winner	2000	The Marshall Mathers LP	Eminem	Album	4.2	27
2002	2000	Back for the First Time	Ludacris	Album	4	2
2002	2001	Scorpion	Eve	Album	3	6
2002	2001	The Blueprint	Jay‐Z	Album	3.65	8
2002	2001	Pain Is Love	Ja Rule	Album		9
2002 winner	2000	Stankonia	OutKast	Album	3.8	20
2003	2001	Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry	Petey Pablo	Album		5
2003	2001	Word of Mouf	Ludacris	Album	4	6
2003	2001	Tarantula	Mystikal	Album		5
2003	2002	Nellyville	Nelly	Album	4.75	18
2003 winner	2002	The Eminem Show	Eminem	Album	4.05	20
2004	2002	Under Construction	Missy Elliott	Album	3.6	10
2004	2002	The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse	Jay‐Z	Album	3.45	15
2004	2002	Phrenology	The Roots	Album	3.75	9
2004	2003	Get Rich or Die Tryin’	50 Cent	Album	3.7	16
2004 winner	2003	Speakerboxxx / The Love Below	OutKast	Album	3.35	12
2005	2003	The Black Album	Jay‐Z	Album	3.2	9
2005	2004	To the 5 Boroughs	Beastie Boys	Album	3.85	15
2005	2004	THE DEFinition	LL Cool J	Album	4	4
2005	2004	Suit	Nelly	Album	4.35	5
2005 winner	2004	The College Dropout	Kanye West	Album	4.25	19
2006	2004	Encore	Eminem	Album	3.4	13
2006	2005	The Massacre	50 Cent	Album	3.8	22
2006	2005	Be	Common	Album	4.3	9
2006	2005	The Cookbook	Missy Elliott	Album	4	7
2006 winner	2005	Late Registration	Kanye West	Album	4.3	20
2007	2006	King	T.I.	Album	5	5
2007	2006	In My Mind	Pharrell	Album	2.25	11
2007	2006	Game Theory	The Roots	Album	3.9	6
2007	2006	Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor	Lupe Fiasco	Album	4.35	15
2007 winner	2006	Release Therapy	Ludacris	Album	3	9
2008	2006	Kingdom Come	Jay‐Z	Album	3	8
2008	2006	Hip Hop Is Dead	Nas	Album	3.6	10
2008	2007	T.I. vs. T.I.P.	T.I.	Album	3.35	6
2008	2007	Finding Forever	Common	Album	3.75	4
2008 winner	2007	Graduation	Kanye West	Album	3.9	23
2009	2007	American Gangster	Jay‐Z	Album	3	6
2009	2007	Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool	Lupe Fiasco	Album	3	11
2009	2008	[untitled]	Nas	Album	3.75	9
2009	2008	Paper Trail	T.I.	Album	4.85	8
2009 winner	2008	Tha Carter III	Lil Wayne	Album	3.65	18
2010	2008	The Renaissance	Q‐Tip	Album	3	6
2010	2008	Universal Mind Control	Common	Album	4	6
2010	2009	R.O.O.T.S.	Flo Rida	Album	4.65	9
2010	2009	The Ecstatic	Mos Def	Album	4.2	5
2010 winner	2009	Relapse	Eminem	Album	3.35	18
2011	2009	The Blueprint 3	Jay‐Z	Album	3	7
2011	2010	B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray	B.o.B	Album	4.5	9
2011	2010	Thank Me Later	Drake	Album	3.8	9
2011	2010	How I Got Over	The Roots	Album	4.35	8
2011 winner	2010	Recovery	Eminem	Album	3.5	15
2012	2010	Pink Friday	Nicki Minaj	Album	3.4	26
2012	2011	Lasers	Lupe Fiasco	Album	4.35	9
2012	2011	Tha Carter IV	Lil Wayne	Album	3.6	13
2012	2011	Watch the Throne	Jay‐Z & Kanye West	Album	3.5	18
2012 winner	2010	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West	Album	4.3	19
2013	2011	undun	The Roots	Album	4.5	4
2013	2012	Life Is Good	Nas	Album	3.6	24
2013	2012	God Forgives, I Don’t	Rick Ross	Album	5	16
2013	2012	Based on a T.R.U. Story	2 Chainz	Album	5	10
2013	2012	Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1	Lupe Fiasco	Album	5	6
2013 winner	2011	Take Care	Drake	Album	4.35	11
2014	2012	good kid, m.A.A.d city	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.35	37
2014	2013	Yeezus	Kanye West	Album	3.85	9
2014	2013	Magna Carta… Holy Grail	Jay‐Z	Album	2.7	7
2014	2013	Nothing Was the Same	Drake	Album	4.65	20
2014 winner	2012	The Heist	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Album	4.5	9
2015	2013	Because the Internet	Childish Gambino	Album	3.8	9
2015	2014	Oxymoron	ScHoolboy Q	Album	5	12
2015	2014	The New Classic	Iggy Azalea	Album	3.5	14
2015	2014	Nobody’s Smiling	Common	Album		5

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