who has the most grammy awards in hip hop
Hip hop and social injustice


"Stan" with openly gay singer Elton John at the 2001 Grammy Awards in an attempt to publicly reconcile with the LGBT community. However, in more recent years hip hop has developed a more inclusive attitude towards the LGBTQ+ community. Several hip hop artists have spoken out against homophobia and in support of LGBTQ+ rights, with the most popular instance of this being Seattle-based hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's Grammy-nominated single "Same Love" from 2012. The single has gone triple platinum in the U.S. and
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List of awards and nominations received by Lecrae


Year for "Hallelujah" (2011). He also released the mixtape "Church Clothes" and the studio album "Gravity", the latter of which of has been called the most important album in Christian hip hop history by Rapzilla and "Atlanta Daily World". In 2013, Lecrae became the first hip hop artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album for his sixth album "Gravity". In the same year the album won Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the GMA Dove Awards,
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Lecrae


his breakthrough into mainstream hip hop, the mixtape was downloaded over 100,000 times in less than 48 hours. His sixth studio album, "Gravity", came out on September 4, 2012, and has been called the most important album in Christian hip hop history by Rapzilla and "Atlanta Daily World". The album debuted as the best-selling album overall in the iTunes Store, No. 3 on the "Billboard" 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards, marking the
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Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance


category was eliminated because "[there] wasn't enough competition essentially, due to the lack of the number of releases in that category". Black Entertainment Television (BET) executive Stephen Hill cited a similar reason for the elimination of the female categories by the BET Hip Hop Awards and VH1's Hip Hop Honors, reflecting a lack of female representation in the hip hop music scene for several years. As of 2011, the category name has not changed since 2005. For the 45th Grammy Awards (2003), Best
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Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance


that the category was eliminated because "[there] wasn't enough competition essentially, due to the lack of the number of releases in that category." Black Entertainment Television (BET) executive Stephen Hill cited a similar reason for the elimination of the female categories by the BET Hip Hop Awards and VH1's Hip Hop Honors, reflecting a lack of female representation in the hip hop music scene for several years. As of 2011, the category name has not changed since 2005. For the 45th Grammy Awards (2003)
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Hip hop music in the Pacific Northwest


, Grayskul, Grieves, Jake One, and Vitamin D, which also contributes to its growth. Blue Scholars and their label Massline Media are also beginning to receive national attention. Macklemore is a hip hop artist from the Pacific Northwest who has recently received much national and international attention. At the 56th Annual Grammy Award, Macklemore received seven Grammy award nominations, and won four of those, including the awards for Best New Artist, Best Rap Album (The Heist), Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance (Thrift Shop
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he won his first Grammy, for Best R&B Vocal Performance Male (for "U Remind Me"). The following year, at the 45th Grammy Awards, he won the award again, for "U Don't Have to Call". As an act Usher won several awards, including three "Billboard" R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in 2002, for Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Artist, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Male Artist and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist, and a BET Award
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Hip hop music


number-one hit singles and has been certified diamond by selling 11 times platinum by the RIAA for shipping more than 11 million units, becoming one of the best selling hip-hop albums of all time as well as winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards being only the second rap album to do so. Industry observers view the sales race between Kanye West's "Graduation" and 50 Cent's "Curtis" as a turning point for hip hop. West emerged the victor,
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The Art of Translation


The Art of Translation is the fourth studio album by Christian hip hop duo GRITS. It was released in 2002 on Gotee Records and earned the honor of the Dove Award for "Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year" and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2003. Awarding the album four stars at AllMusic, Dan Leroy writes, "They're hot here, on the most potent antidote to hip-hop's parade of pathologies in some time." Deborah Evans Price, reviewing the album for "Billboard"
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Cardi B


shows, such as the 2017 Grammy Awards. Cardi B is a fan of fast food; one of her favorites is McDonalds. In an interview in 2018, Cardi talked about being Afro-Latina and Afro-Caribbean: Cardi B received her first two nominations at the 2017 BET Awards. She won five awards at the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards and four more awards at 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards. She has received seven Grammy Award nominations winning one. She has won three American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music
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List of awards and nominations received by Kid Cudi


, the awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET. Cudi has been nominated once. The BET Hip Hop Awards for hip-hop performers, producers, and music video directors were established in 2006 and are hosted by the BET Hip-Hop network. Cudi has received seven nominations. With its nominees based solely on Beatport sales data, The Beatport Music Awards aim to recognize electronic music talent. Cudi has won one award from one nomination. The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and
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Sindicato Argentino del Hip Hop


Sindicato Argentino del Hip Hop is a hip hop group formed in Argentina. It currently consists of three members: Smoler, DJ Fabry and Huexo, and two producers, but it has had different numbers of members over time. The group's style mainly consists of hip hop and funk. The group received a Latin Grammy award in 2001 for best hip hop/rap album. Sindicato Argentino del Hip Hop, which means Argentine Hip Hop Union, started as a group of old-school hip-hop culture fans in the
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Hip hop


hop is Frank Ocean, who came out in 2012 and has released critically acclaimed albums and won two Grammy Awards. Other successful queer hip hop/rap artists include female bisexual rapper Azealia Banks, pansexual androgynous rapper and singer Angel Haze, lesbian rapper Siya, gay rapper/singer Kevin Abstract, and genderqueer rapper Mykki Blanco. Having its roots in reggae, disco, funk and soul music, hip hop has since expanded worldwide. Its expansion includes events like Afrika Bambaataa's 1982 releasing of "", which tried to establish
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The Big Picture (Da' T.R.U.T.H. album)


The Big Picture is the fourth studio album from Christian hip-hop artist Da' T.R.U.T.H. It was released on July 21, 2009 through Cross Movement Records. The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards. The song "Lost" was also nominated for Rap/Hip-Hop Recorded Song of the Year. "The Big Picture" was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards.
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List of awards and nominations received by T.I.


this time for the song "U Don't Know Me" T.I. received 18 wins from 37 nominations in 2006, including Male Hip Hop Artist of the Year at the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, Hip Hop MVP of the Year at the BET Hip Hop Awards, Rap Artist of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards, Best Rap Artist at the Ozone Awards. For the entire year of 2007, T.I. received 16 wins from 41 nominations, including his first two Grammy wins at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards,
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T.I.


Eminem, and was released on December 19, peaking at number eighteen in the US. T.I. was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance for "I'm Back" and Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (Fancy with Drake and Swizz Beatz) at the 53rd Grammy Awards. He was also nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best Hip Hop Song of the Year for "Got Your Back" and he earned three BET Hip Hop Awards nominations for Hustler of the Year,
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List of awards and nominations received by Lecrae


and a Stellar Award for Rap, Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year. In 2015, he received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for "Messengers" (2014), Artist of the Year, Rap/Hip-Hop Song of the Year, and Rap/Hip-Hop Album of the Year of the year at the Dove Awards, a Stellar Award for Rap, Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year, and a "Billboard" Music Award for Top Christian Album for "Anomaly
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List of awards and nominations received by Beyoncé


Grammis Awards are the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Beyoncé has been nominated once. The "HipHopDX Awards" are annual year-end awards hosted by online Hip-Hop magazine HipHopDX. The iHeartRadio Music Awards are a music awards show founded by iHeartRadio in 2014 to recognize the most popular artists and music over the past year as determined by the network's listeners. Beyoncé has received nine nominations. The Industry Dance Awards & Cancer Benefit Show is an annual event that brings the global dance community together in celebration of creativity
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Salt-N-Pepa


group has been nominated for a Grammy Award several times, the first being in 1988 for their 1987 hit song "Push It". The trio won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for their song "None Of Your Business", making them one of the first female rap acts to win a Grammy Award, along with Queen Latifah who also won during that same year. Their success in rap and hip-hop culture has earned them the honorific title "The First Ladies of Rap
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Nicki Minaj


New Artist and Best Rap Album for her debut album "Pink Friday". Minaj received her second nomination for Best Rap Album at the 58th Grammy Awards for "The Pinkprint". Minaj won the American Music Awards for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album in three different years for her first three albums. She has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video three times, for "Super Bass", "Anaconda", and "Chun-Li"
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Alternative hip hop


two million copies in the United States alone and has been certified double platinum by RIAA. The duo were the recipient of multiple accolades, winning at the 49th Grammy Awards a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and Best Alternative Music Album. Industry observers view the 2007 sales competition between Kanye West's "Graduation" and 50 Cent's "Curtis" as a turning point for hip hop. West emerged the victor, selling nearly a million copies in the first week alone. Ben Detrick of "XXL" cited the
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Grammy Award


Kremlinology and commented on The Recording Academy's exclusion of more "mature" hip hop albums as Album of the Year nominees, noting that it occasionally opts to nominate "pop-friendly" hip hop albums instead. In a 2011 profile for "The New York Times" following the 53rd Grammy Awards, frontman Justin Vernon of indie band Bon Iver was asked his opinion of the Grammys and how he would react to a nomination for his group, to which he responded: He reaffirmed this sentiment and commented about the Grammys,
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Feminist activism in hip hop


feminism's ideal of sexual empowerment and the autonomy and ownership of the female black body. Behind Queen Latifah came hip-hop and R&B artist Lauryn Hill, who became the best example of hip-hop feminism with record-breaking worldwide sales of her album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" and by winning five Grammy awards in 1998, including Album of the Year (Hobson and Bartlow, 5). Female emcees sometimes mimicked the hip hop rhetoric of males in the scene and generated a massive amount of attention. Missy
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List of awards and nominations received by 50 Cent


won thirteen awards from eighteen nominations. The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards reflect the performance of recordings on the R&B/hip-hop and rap charts. 50 Cent has won all sixteen awards from the sixteen nominations. The BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony presented by the British Phonographic Industry, related to popular music. 50 Cent has been nominated for a total of three Brit Awards and has won one of them. The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 50 Cent
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Cuban hip hop


organizers Rodolfo Rensoli, a member of Grupo Uno, decided that the only way that hip hop would not be attacked in Cuba the same way Rock was to avoid the same political pitfalls. This even went on to help legitimize some of Cuba most prominent performing raps groups like Primera Base. The festival has grown to include some American stars such as Dead Prez and Blackstar. Erykah Badu, a U.S. singer and Grammy award winner and one of the best singers of the "un-soul style," is among the biggest
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The Cross Movement


hop culture, the CM has slowly found more acceptance, though not total acceptance, in the Christian community than in the secular hip hop community as the majority of their concerts are held at churches or church-sponsored events as opposed to secular venues. In 2006, the CM received a Grammy nomination for "Best Rock Gospel Album," as opposed to any of the traditional hip hop or rap categories. Additionally, the CM has generally only been recognized at Christian and Gospel awards shows such as the Dove Awards or Stellar
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album


/Hip-Hop Album until it received its current name, Best Urban Music Album, at the 5th Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2004. The accolade for Best Urban Music Album was first presented to the Argentine band Sindicato Argentino del Hip Hop at the second Latin Grammy Awards in 2001 for their album "Un Paso a la Eternidad". In 2009, the Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 became the first urban act to be presented with Best Urban Music Album and Album of the Year for their album "Los de Atrás Vienen
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T.I. vs. T.I.P.


and T.I.P. the unreformed hustler are two completely different entities, and that the strain of balancing the two personas is enough to tear Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. apart. "T.I. vs. T.I.P." was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, losing to Kanye West's "Graduation" at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards The album won the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album at The American Music Awards of 2007. T.I. also won the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at The
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Hip Hop Is Dead


The Game and Chrisette Michele, among others. The album debuted at number one on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 355,880 copies in its first week. His fourth U.S. number-one album, it had sold 764,000 copies by November 2008, eventually over time it went platinum by the RIAA. Upon its release, "Hip Hop Is Dead" received generally positive reviews from most music critics. "Hip Hop Is Dead" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, ultimately losing to Kanye West
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List of awards and nominations received by Nicki Minaj


her single "Super Bass". The following year, Minaj won another award for Best Female Video for her single "Starships". In 2015 she won the award for Best Hip-Hop Video for "Anaconda". She won the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist in 2010 and 2016. Throughout 2011 to 2016, Minaj was nominated for a total of 10 Grammy Awards. She received her first Grammy nomination in 2011 in the category Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the single "My Chick
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Gravity (Lecrae album)


"Billboard" Top Heatseekers Songs, No. 13 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital charts, and No. 64 on the Hot Digital Songs charts. Critically, "Gravity" was very well received, and is considered Lecrae's strongest, most mainstream work to date. It won Best Gospel Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards and Best Rap/Hip Hop Album at the 2013 Dove Awards. "Gravity" is a follow-up to the mixtape "Church Clothes", which was released earlier in 2012,
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Like (producer)


Gabriel Stevenson, professionally known as Like, is an American hip hop producer, recording artist, and DJ from Los Angeles, California. The three time Grammy nominee began working with the Pacific Division, a hip hop trio, better known as Pac Div in 2006. In 2012, he produced Kendrick Lamar's "Sing About Me" on "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City". He received two Grammy Award nominations at the 56th Grammy Awards: Album of the Year and Best Rap Album. In 2016, he produced Anderson
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R. Kelly


the most successful R&B male artist of the 1990s and one of the world's best-selling music artists. He is the 55th best-selling music artist in the United States, with over 32 million domestic album sales. Kelly is listed by "Billboard" as the most successful R&B/Hip Hop artist of the years 1985-2010 and the most successful R&B artist in history. He has won awards including Grammy Awards, BET Awards, Soul Train Music Awards, "Billboard" Music Award's, NAACP Image Awards
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Gravity (Lecrae album)


there are 3 or 4 songs too many on the album that detract from the album as a whole", which is the reason he did not "get overly excited", but he did affirm that "fans and newcomers alike will enjoy the album". "Gravity" won Best Gospel Album for the 2013 Grammy Awards. This was the first time that a hip-hop artist has won this award. At the 2013 Dove Awards, the album won Rap/Hip Hop Album, and the song "Tell the
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Drake (musician)


and the most Hot 100 debuts in a week (22). He also has the most number one singles on the Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Rhythmic Charts. Drake has also won four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, twenty-seven "Billboard" Music Awards and three Juno Awards. Aubrey Drake Graham was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Dennis Graham, is an African American and a practising Catholic from Memphis, Tennessee, and
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Rock the Boat (Aaliyah song)


the Boat" was nominated for Video of the year and Viewer's choice at the 2002 BET Awards. At the 2002 Billboard-AURN R&B/Hip-Hop Awards the song was nominated for Top R&B/Hip-Hop Single and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Single – Airplay. At the 44th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. At the 19th annual MTV Video Music Awards the video was nominated for Best R&B Video. At the 2002 NAACP Image Awards the video was nominated for
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Hip-hop feminism


. Women such as emcees Missy Elliot and Queen Latifah followed suit. In 1995, Queen Latifah broke the glass ceiling of black women in hip-hop by winning a Grammy for her song "U.N.I.T.Y.," which revolutionized hip-hop feminism's ideal of sexual empowerment and the autonomy and ownership of the female black body. Behind Queen Latifah came hip-hop artist Lauryn Hill who became the best example of hip-hop feminism with record-breaking worldwide sales of her album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" and has
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Impact of the Internet on Hip Hop


the United States. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album that year. Since then, hip-hop artists have followed in the same path as Lil Wayne, using freely released mix tapes to develop their skills and build popularity. Modern-day hip hop has been greatly impacted by the availability of blogs on the Web. Various blogs, such as XXL, feature services for amateur artists to post their music to audiences on their website. These services usually have a rating system or comment section for the amateur
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Prolyfic


Prolyfic (born David Lemar Ewing Jr. in Chicago, IL) is a Grammy Nominated American Hip-Hop record producer, and Songwriter best known for his work with the Grammy Award Winning hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco. David Lemar Ewing Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois the son of Anita Logan and David Lemar Ewing Sr. As a teenager, Ewing became interested in hip hop, performing amateur raps at age fourteen under the name Prolyfic. Although a student at Simeon Career Academy on the southside, he frequently participated in freestyle
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Remy Ma


chart (as a member of Terror Squad on "Lean Back"), and one of only three multiple winners of the BET Award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, which she won in 2005 and 2017. Ma's most successful songs include "Ante Up (Remix)", "Lean Back", "Conceited", and "All the Way Up". Ma is the recipient of two Vibe awards, two Source awards, and has been nominated for three Grammy awards. Since 2015, she has
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Scratch (musician)


Kyle Jones (born in Camden, New Jersey), better known as Scratch, is an American hip hop musician who specializes in Beatboxing and vocal scratch sounds. He is best known as a former member of Grammy Award-winning band The Roots. He is well known in the hip hop and beatbox community for his outstanding ability to simulate the music of a Hip hop Turntablist using only his voice and loop machines. Originally a member of Philadelphia based rap group, Schoolz Of Thought, he joined The Roots in 1998.
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Hip hop soul


By" won the 1996 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. The female vocal group TLC, made up of two singers and a rapper, like Jodeci, had their start in new jack swing (dubbed "new jill swing" in their case) with their debut album, "Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip" (1992). Their second album, "CrazySexyCool", to which Puffy Combs was a significant contributor, moved the group into the aesthetic of hip hop soul
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Anomaly (Lecrae album)


commercially, debuting at No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200 with over 88,000 copies sold. It also debuted at No. 1 on the Top Gospel Albums chart, marking the first time that any artist has ever topped both the 200 and Gospel charts. "Anomaly" won Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the 2015 GMA Dove Awards, and Rap, Hip Hop Gospel CD of the Year at the 2015 Stellar Awards. Two songs earned a nomination for the 2015 Grammy Awards; "All I Need
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Good Kid, M.A.A.D City


at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. "Good Kid M.A.A.D City" earned Lamar five Grammy Award nominations at the 56th Grammy Awards, for Album of The Year, Best Rap Album, Best New Artist, Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Now or Never" with Mary J. Blige, and Best Rap Performance for "Swimming Pools (Drank)". On October 23, 2012, after receiving much critical acclaim from the hip hop community, rapper Shyne took to Twitter to disparage the album, calling it "trash
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Be Without You


You" as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop Song of all time. It is also one of Mary J. Blige's most successful singles to date, peaking at number three on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and won the Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance categories at the 2007 Grammy Awards. "Be Without You" is an R&B and hip hop soul song written in the key of D minor with a tempo of
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Togolese hip hop


identity. But to reward Togolese hip hop artists, authorities established since 2003 a night each year to give them awards, called Togo Hip Hop Awards. Togo Hip Hop Awards festival is an occasion to gather all the Togolese hip hop artists from the North to the South and even those who are abroad. These Awards are considered to reinforce the cooperation and relations among the hip hop artists. Togolese hip hop has the ability to bring political, social, and economic issues in the society by opening people’s eyes on what is
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List of awards and nominations received by Lecrae


U.S. "Billboard" Gospel Albums Chart. In 2011 his fourth album, "Rehab" (2010), received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Gospel Album. That year Lecrae began achieving mainstream success and recognition after he collaborated with DJ Statik Selektah on the song "Live & Let Live" and performed at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher. The following year he garnered two GMA Dove awards: Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year for "" (2011) and Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the
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Summertime (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song)


"Summertime" is a song by American hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. It was released in May 1991 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, "Homebase". The song was produced by Chicago-based producers Hula & K. Fingers and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1992 Grammy Awards. It spent a week at number #1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, as well as reaching #4 on
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Chris Brown


Combo Award and Best Hip Hop Video for "Look at Me Now". At the 2011 Soul Train Music Awards, "F.A.M.E." won Album of the Year. The album has also earned Brown three Grammy Award nominations at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album, as well as Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for "Look at Me Now". On February 12, 2012, Brown won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. During the ceremony, Brown performed several songs marking his first appearance at the
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Yeezus


Machine Music" concept translated into futuristic hip-hop, all industrial overload and hypertense egomania and hostile vibes." "Exclaim!" also named it the hip hop album of the year. "NME" named it the second best album of the year calling it "his most sonically challenging album to date". "Stereogum", "Time", and "Complex" also named "Yeezus" the best album of 2013. It was also nominated in two categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards including for Best Rap
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All of the Lights


critics, who complimented its detailed production and dramatically-themed style. The single was a moderate international success, reaching number 18 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the United States, while it also attained respectable chartings in several other countries. It won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 54th Grammy Awards. As of December 2011, the song has sold over 1,561,000 digital units in the US. By August 2013
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Nicki Minaj


the Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Airplay chart. Minaj has been called one of the most influential female rap artists of all time. Throughout her career, she has received numerous accolades, including six American Music Awards, 11 BET Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, four "Billboard" Music Awards, a "Billboard" Women in Music Rising Star Award, and 10 Grammy Award nominations. Minaj has sold 20 million singles as a lead artist, 60 million singles as a featured artist, and over five million albums worldwide
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Dangerously in Love 2


critics, who wrote that the song effectively shows the vocal capabilities of Beyoncé. It won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards. Though not released as a single, "Dangerously in Love 2" charted at number 57 the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and at number 17 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Beyoncé performed the ballad at the 46th Grammy Awards, the Verizon Ladies First Tour, the Dangerously in Love Tour, The Beyoncé Experience and the
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Rhythm Nation


100 and topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Dance Club Songs charts. It also peaked within the top 40 of most singles charts worldwide. "Rhythm Nation" received several accolades, including BMI Pop Awards for "Most Played Song", the Billboard Award for "Top Dance/Club Play Single" and a Grammy nomination for Jackson as "Producer of the Year." It has been included in two of Jackson's greatest hits collections, "" (1995) and "Number Ones" (2009
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Anthony Parker (musician)


Anthony Parker (born 1980), known by his stage name Wordsmith, is an American hip-hop artist and music label owner. He has released five albums over his career, and is a member of the nominating committee for the Grammy Awards as a songwriter. In 2009, he founded the NU Revolution record label. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Independent Music Award for Best Album - Rap or Hip-Hop for his fifth studio album, " Perspective Jukebox". Wordsmith uses different genres in his
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Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival


Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival is the debut album released by Haitian hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. The album was released on June 24, 1997, Wyclef Jean also served as the album's executive producer. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching number sixteen on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, and peaked at number four on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and garnered Jean two Grammy Award nominations at the 40th Grammy Awards, including one for Best Rap Album. The other for his
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Run-DMC


and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2016, Run-DMC received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The three members of Run-DMC grew up in Hollis, Queens. As a teenager, Joseph Simmons was recruited into hip hop by his older brother, Russell, who was then an up-and-coming hip hop promoter. Simmons appeared onstage as a DJ for solo rapper Kurtis Blow, who was managed by Russell. Known as "DJ Run, Son of Kurtis Blow", Simmons soon began performing with Kurtis
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Vengo (album)


Vengo is Chilean hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux's fourth solo studio album, released in March, 2014. Its debut single "Vengo" was released on "Spin" in January of the same year. "Vengo" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album at the 2015 Ceremony. A reviewer at NPR called it "virtually flawless", and MTV said it was "some of the most dazzling hip-hop this year". Several reviewers noted the inclusion of Andean music
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LL Cool J


], make sure that it is official." On October 6, 2012, LL Cool J released a new single from "Authentic Hip-Hop" called "Ratchet". Following that, on November 3, 2012, LL Cool J collaborated with Joe and producers Trackmasters with his 2nd single, "Take It". LL Cool J has hosted the Grammy Awards Show for five consecutive years, from the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12, 2012, through the 58th Grammy Awards on February 15, 2016. On
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Freddy Will


Wilfred Kanu Jr. (born August 11, 1977), professionally known by his stage name Freddy Will, is an American Canadian author, philanthropist and hip-hop recording artist. His pictures are on four "limited edition" postage stamps of Sierra Leone, and he is the author of three successive books published with accompanying hip-hop albums. He has collaborated with Juno Award winners and Canadian jazz musicians, Eddie Bullen and Liberty Silver, and five-time United States Grammy Award-winning Gospel singer, Carvin Winans.
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Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)


"Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" is the title of a 2002 single by singer Erykah Badu and rapper Common. It spent four weeks at number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and reached number 9 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. The song also won a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best Solo R&B/Soul Single and the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. The song was featured in the 2002 film "Brown Sugar
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Lecrae discography


. 3 on the "Billboard" 200 and No. 1 on the Top Rap, Christian, Gospel, and Independent Albums charts. "Gravity" was also dubbed the most important album in Christian hip hop history. "Gravity" won the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards. "Anomaly" was released September 9, 2014, debuting at No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200. On September 22, 2017, he released "All Things Work Together" and on June 22,
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List of awards and nominations received by T.I.


, including Most Performed Song for "My Love" at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards. In 2009, T.I. received 11 wins from 31 nominations, including Top R&B/Hip Hop Male Artist of the Decade at The Billboard Music Awards, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Swagga Like Us" at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, and Best Male Video for "Live Your Life" at the MTV Video Music Awards. Overall, T.I. has earned 64 awards from 170 nominations. The American Music Awards are awarded
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Dru Castro


peaked at number one on the "Billboard" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including "Best R&B Album". To date Castro has worked on 12 Grammy nominated projects (4 have won the award) See Below. In 2010 Castro won a Grammy with India.Arie as a Producer/Engineer for Best Urban Alternative Performance on the song "Pearls". Castro was born in Manhattan, New York and was raised in the West Palm Beach,FL.
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Jesus Freak (album)


Rock Gospel Album. "Jesus Freak" is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of Christian music. After three albums of hip-hop oriented sound, including DC Talk's Grammy award-winning third album, "Free at Last", which was based primarily on hip-hop- and pop-oriented songwriting, the trio decided to innovate and reinvent their style. After three years, DC Talk returned with songs featuring a more alternative rock sound. Thus, the album's
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Relapse (Eminem album)


words, expanding the boundaries of the art of rap itself [...] the composition is experimental and abstract, a master toying with form". At the 52nd Grammy Awards, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. One of the most anticipated albums of 2009, "Relapse" was the top-selling hip hop album of the year. Upon its release, the album debuted at number 1 on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 608,000 copies in its first week. In Canada, the
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Alternative hip hop


" receive universal acclaim from music critics and manage to appeal listeners of all ages spanning numerous musical genres but also spawned two number-one hit singles. The album eventually went on to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year—making it only the second hip hop album to win the award—and has been certified diamond by selling 11 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping more than 11 million units, becoming one of the best selling albums of all time. Gnarls Barkley experienced
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List of awards and nominations received by SZA


nominations. Billboard Women in Music is an annual event held by Billboard and were established to recognize "women in the music industry who have made significant contributions to the business and who, through their work and continued success, inspire generations of women to take on increasing responsibilities within the field". The BMI Awards are held annually by Broadcast Music, Inc. to award songwriters in various genres, including Hip-Hop/R&B, country and pop. The Grammy Awards are presented annually by The Recording Academy. SZA has received nine
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List of awards and nominations received by Erykah Badu


2003, Badu received twelve nominations and won two, including Video of the Year for "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" at the BET Awards and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" at the Grammy Awards. In 2008, Badu received eleven nominations and won two, including Best Director for "Honey" at the BET Awards and Best Direction in a Video for "Honey" at the MTV Video Music Awards. Overall
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Sam Dunn


the Grammy-nominated and Super Duper Alice Cooper, winner of Best Feature-Length Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Dunn co-directed and hosted the biggest-ever TV series on the history of heavy metal, Metal Evolution, which reached #1 on VH1 Classic (USA) and M3 (Canada), and most-recently co-directed the Netflix original series Hip-Hop Evolution which has been awarded a Peabody, an International Emmy, and a Canadian Screen Award. Dunn's first film, co-
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Bebe Rexha


"Like a Champion" and Nikki Williams's "Glowing". Her most prominent songwriting effort of 2013 was Eminem's and Rihanna's "The Monster", which was released as the fourth single from Eminem's album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2". The song went on to top the charts for the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. That same year, Rexha
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Hip hop


year at the Grammy Awards since the category was added in 1995. In addition, African American female hip hop artists have been recognized even less in the industry. Salt-N-Pepa felt when they were establishing themselves as a successful group, they had to prove doubters wrong, stating that "being women in hip hop at a time when it wasn't that many women, we felt like we had more to prove." Latinas, especially Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican women, are degraded and fetishized in hip
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List of awards and nominations received by M.I.A.


M.I.A is an English recording artist, songwriter, painter and director of Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of electronic, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music. She has been nominated for various awards including Academy Award, MOBO Award, MTV Video Music Award, MTV Europe Music Award, Grammy Award and the prestigious Mercury Prize. She is the only artist in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Asian descent
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Charm (album)


49th Annual Grammy Awards short list and, eventually, a record deal with Definitive Jux Records. Widely regarded as one of the strongest entries in his discography (rivaled by 2008's ""), "Charm" helped Danny! achieve a moderate buzz in the underground hip-hop community and become South Carolina's most heralded hip-hop artist to date. The song "Cafe Surreal" from this album would go on to become a signature tune in commercial bumpers for the MTV early morning video countdown program aMTV, being played
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U.N.I.T.Y.


the jazz sample replacing it with a hip-hop beat. It can be found as a clean version on "20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Queen Latifah" and "Hip Hop: Gold". The song won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. It remains Latifah's biggest hit single in the USA to date, and her only one to reach the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. The video was directed by Mark Gerard who also directed her video "Just Another
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Coolio


television and movies, mostly small roles or cameos. Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" received several awards, including Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards; and Best Rap Video and Best Video from a Film at the MTV Video Music Awards. Coolio himself has received several awards, including Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Artist at the American Music Awards in 1996. At the Grammy Awards in 1997, Coolio received three nominations: Best Rap Album for "Gangsta's Paradise", Best Rap Solo Performance for "
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List of awards and nominations received by Kelly Rowland


ten singles "Commander" and "Down for Whatever", as well as the US R&B/Hip-Hop number-one "Motivation". In 2003, Rowland received eight nominations and won five for the single "Dilemma", including Hot Rap Track of the Year at the "Billboard" R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, Favorite International Single at the Capital FM Awards, Record of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 45th Grammy Awards, and Best R&B Video at the MTV Video Music Awards
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance


beats", backing vocals, and "funny" rhymes. The award was presented to Young MC. In 2010, Joshua Ostroff of Spinner included Young MC's win on his list of "The Grammy Awards' Biggest Mistakes", asserting that "Bust a Move" was merely a "fun little hip-pop song" while "Fight the Power" was a "revelatory single that still stands tall as one of music's greatest (and funkiest) political statements and perhaps hip-hop's finest moment".
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Still Standing (Monica album)


was released in May 2010 and reached number two on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. In 2006, Monica's fifth studio album "The Makings of Me" was released. For the production of the album, the singer had re-teamed with most of her regular contributors and although the final track listing comprised an outweighing slower set of mid-tempo recording and ballads, J Records settled on "
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Digable Planets


Digable Planets () is a Grammy award-winning hip hop trio formed in 1987, in Brooklyn, New York. The trio is composed of rappers Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (from Seattle), Mariana "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira (from Silver Spring, Maryland), and Craig "Doodlebug" Irving (from Philadelphia). The group is notable for their contributions to the subgenres of classic hip hop and alternative hip hop. Butler and Irving met in Philadelphia in the late 1980s; Vieira and Irving met in Washington
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Lupe Fiasco


sharing a passion for skateboarding, a topic generally not discussed in hip-hop. Fiasco explained, "[Skateboarding culture is] just as deep as hip-hop. I'm not the greatest skateboarder, but I'm a damn good rapper, so I made a damn good skateboarding song." The single, and its accompanying music video, helped Fiasco get attention in the hip-hop community, and was later nominated for two 2007 Grammy Awards. During this time, he recorded guest performances on Tha' Rayne
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Redrama


Lasse Mellberg (born 2 October 1977), better known by his stage name Redrama, is a Finnish rapper. He made a breakthrough in 2003. Redrama, who performs in English, Swedish and Finnish was part of a hip-hop group Alien Allies which also included the Norwegian Paperboys and Madcon. Redrama won the English-language Finnish championship of rapping in 2001 and he also won the Finnish Grammy (Emma) award for The Best Hip Hop Album in 2005. His first EP, "Redrama EP", was
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The Lockers


Tony "GO GO" Lewis Foster became an alternate member. After The Lockers disbanded, group members continued to find success individually. Both Don Campbell and Toni Basil have received the "Living Legend of Hip Hop" award from Hip Hop International. Basil, who already had a successful career as a choreographer and actress prior to the Lockers, would go on to achieve pop music success with the Grammy nominated single "Mickey." Adolfo Quinones starred as Ozone in the street dance films, "Breakin'" and ""
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Brian Soko


Brian Soko (born 1991) is a Grammy award winning Zimbabwean songwriter and record producer who is based in the United States of America (USA). He won three awards at the 2014 edition of the Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) R&B/Hip-Hop Awards for composing Beyonce's song "Drunk in love" in 2014 and a Grammy for his production efforts in the same project. Brian Soko was born in 1991 in Zimbabwe in the small town of Chiredzi before moving to South Africa where they stayed for a short
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T.I.


", which reached the top ten on the U.S. Hot 100 and #1 on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Tracks. "What You Know" won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 49th Grammy Awards. Also that year, T.I. collaborated with Justin Timberlake for "My Love," which proved to be a worldwide hit, and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Timberlake at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards and
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Alicia Keys


Collaboration. "Girl on Fire" (2012) was her fifth "Billboard" 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In 2013, "VH1 Storytellers" was released as her second live album. Her sixth studio album, "Here" (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart topping album. Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards,
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Transgender representation in hip hop music


cat-called on the city street and receiving sexual attention from males allowed them to continue on their journey as a transgender artist. D. Smith is a Grammy award-winning producer, singer, and songwriter. Smith is the first transgender woman on Love and Hip Hop, a VH1 realty show. Smith believes the show is a platform that can educate viewers about the transgender community in a positive way. Smith has worked with artists such as Lil' Wayne, Ciara, Keri Hilson, Lloyd, and Andre 3000. Smith
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Missy Elliott


selling 645,000 copies in the United States. Elliott's work during "The Cookbook" era was heavily recognized. Elliott received 5 Grammy nominations in 2005, including one for Best Rap Album for "The Cookbook". The album's first single, "Lose Control," won a Grammy for Best Short Form Video and was nominated for Best Rap Song. "Lose Control" also garnered Elliott six 2005 MTV VMA award nominations (winning Best Dance Video and Best Hip-Hop Video). Elliott won Best Female Hip Hop
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album


The Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and promotes a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. According to the category description guide for the 13th Latin Grammy Awards, the award is for vocal or instrumental merengue house, R&B, reggaeton, rap and/or hip hop music albums containing at least 51 percent playing time of newly recorded material. The award was first presented as the Best Rap
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The Sound (Mary Mary album)


R&B/Hip Hop Albums Chart, as well as number 1 on both the Billboard Top Gospel Albums and Billboard Top Christian Albums Charts. The album sold 37,800 copies it first week. The album has remained on the "Billboard" 200 for 55 weeks. The album's first single "Get Up" won "Best Gospel Performance" at the 2009 51st Grammy Awards. At the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010 the duo won another Grammy for Best Gospel Song for God In Me. The Sound won Mary Mary 4 more Stellar
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Naughty by Nature


fourth albums, called "19 Naughty III" and "Poverty's Paradise" respectively. Both albums reached the #1 spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop Charts. "Hip Hop Hooray" was a success from the album "19 Naughty III". Its video was directed by Spike Lee and featured other hip-hop artists popular in the early 1990s, including Queen Latifah, Eazy-E, Run-D.M.C., and Da Youngstas. "Poverty's Paradise" won the Grammy Award in 1996 for Best Rap
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Tamia


Since her departure from Elektra, Tamia has released most of her projects independently on her own label Plus One Music Group, through ventures with Def Jam, eOne Music and others. In 2015, her sixth album "Love Life" debuted and peaked at number two on "Billboard"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming her highest-charting album on the chart. A NAACP Image Award recipient for her work with singer Eric Benét, Tamia is a six-time Grammy Award nominee and has been nominated for numerous other
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Raheem Rah-Nyse Gibson


Raheem Devon Gibson, often referred to as “Rah Nyse” or “Nyse” is an American record producer, songwriter and lyricist. Gibson was born on February 13, 1972 in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx N.Y. Some of his most notable productions are “Dot Vs. TMR” for three time Grammy Nominee and NARAS award winner D-Dot/The Madd Rapper, “Let Me Find Out” for Grammy Award winning American Hip Hop trio Naughty By Nature, which appeared on the group's sixth studio album
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Swagga Like Us


the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 51st Grammy Awards. T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and M.I.A. (who was 9 months pregnant at the time and supposedly due on the day of the performance) performed the song at Grammy Awards that year. This song was number 22 on "Rolling Stone"s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. "Swagga Like Us" was heavily remixed by various artists. Hip hop duo Clipse included their remix on their mixtape "Road to
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Black women in the music industry


By allowing women in hip-hop soul to offer narratives that highlighted their multidimensional nature, they offered other black women experiences to relate to. Hip-hop soul initially limited the black female voice to that of relationships with men and what that impact has on them. The shift from male-dominated hip-hop to women-centered as well as women-told hip-hop soul highlights the shift in previous perceptions of women within hip-hop culture. Rapper and actress Queen Latifah made history when she won a Grammy
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List of awards and nominations received by Cardi B


American rapper Cardi B is the recipient of a Grammy Award, three American Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, four BET Awards, nine BET Hip Hop Awards, four iHeartRadio Music Awards, a MTV European Music Award, three MTV Video Music Awards, two Soul Train Music Award, a NRJ Music Award. She has also earned two Guinness World Records. Cardi B received her first Grammy Award nominations at the 60th annual ceremony, with "Bodak Yellow" being nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance. Her
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Drumma Boy


music subgenre. His production techniques bring together a diverse array of genres that originate in hip hop, rock, pop, classical, soul, and R&B. Drumma Boy won "Best Indie Producer of the Year" consecutively at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Southern Entertainment Awards. He received a nomination for "Producer of the Year" at the 2008 Ozone Awards and at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards. His beats assisted with two nominations during the 2009 Grammy Awards including his work on T.I.'s Paper Trail (Best Rap Album
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Ne-Yo


studio album, was the second number one platinum-selling album debuted on the "Billboard" 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, and received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Grammy Awards. His third studio album, "Year of the Gentleman" (2008), saw continued success and further Grammy Award nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album as well as Album of the Year. Its singles "Closer" and "Miss Independent" were also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best
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T.I. vs. T.I.P.


place as one of hip-hop's illuminati) and lows (the senseless murder of his best friend), Tip re-examines his schizophrenic psyche on his fifth album, T.I. vs. T.I.P. Call it trap therapy. Hopefully, someday we'll find out what really makes T.I. tick." At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, T.I. was nominated with a total of three nominations, including Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and Grammy Award for Best Rap Song for the single "Big
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Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Fusion/Performance


The Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban/Fusion Performance is an honor presented annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and promotes a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. According to the category description guide for the 2013 Latin Grammy Awards, the award is for vocal or instrumental singles or tracks of newly recorded material containing at least 51 percent playing time of Urban music subgenres such as Hip Hop, Rap
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