The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album has been handed out since 1996. Eminem is the biggest winner in this category with 4 awards to his credit, followed closely by Kanye West who has won the award three times. Eminem’s 2009 album Relapse won the award at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Winners: Best Rap Album
| 
			 Year 
			 | 
			
			 Winner/s 
			 | 
			
			 Album 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2010  
			 | 
			
			 Eminem  
			 | 
			
			 Relapse 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2009  
			 | 
			
			 Lil Wayne  
			 | 
			
			 Tha Carter III 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2008  
			 | 
			
			 Kanye West  
			 | 
			
			 Graduation 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2007  
			 | 
			
			 Ludacris  
			 | 
			
			 Release Therapy 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2006  
			 | 
			
			 Kanye West  
			 | 
			
			 Late Registration 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2005  
			 | 
			
			 Kanye West  
			 | 
			
			 The College Dropout 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2004  
			 | 
			
			 Outkast  
			 | 
			
			 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2003  
			 | 
			
			 Eminem  
			 | 
			
			 The Eminem Show 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2002  
			 | 
			
			 Outkast  
			 | 
			
			 Stankonia 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2001  
			 | 
			
			 Eminem  
			 | 
			
			 The Marshall Mathers LP 
			 | 
		
| 
			 2000  
			 | 
			
			 Eminem  
			 | 
			
			 The Slim Shady LP 
			 | 
		
| 
			 1999 
			 | 
			
			 Jay-Z 
			 | 
			
			 Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life 
			 | 
		
| 
			 1998  
			 | 
			
			 Puff Daddy & the Family  
			 | 
			
			 No Way Out 
			 | 
		
| 
			 1997  
			 | 
			
			 The Fugees  
			 | 
			
			 The Score 
			 | 
		
| 
			 1996  
			 | 
			
			 Naughty By Nature  
			 | 
			
			 Poverty's Paradise 
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