Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance

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Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance
Awarded for Quality songs featuring both rapped and sung vocals
Country United States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded 2002
Last awarded 2019
Official website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance (awarded as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration until 2017) is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for quality songs on which rappers and singers collaborate. 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".[2]

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to artists for "a newly recorded Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together", and the "collaborative artist(s) should be recognized as a featured artist(s)".[3]

Americans Eve and Gwen Stefani won the first award in 2002 with "Let Me Blow Ya Mind". The pair were unsuccessfully nominated a second time in 2006 for "Rich Girl". American rapper Jay-Z has received seven Grammys in the category— four times as lead artist and three times as featured artist; he has also been nominated for three other songs. Rihanna is the female artist with the most wins in the category, with five wins out of nine total nominations. John Legend has received the most nominations in the category without a win, with six.

From 2017, the award will be known as Best Rap/Sung Performance. Solo recordings are no longer excluded, "to represent the current state and future trajectory of rap by expanding the category beyond collaborations between rappers and vocalists to include recordings by a solo artist who blurs the lines between rapping and singing".[4]

Recipients

A dark haired woman wearing a red dress
Inaugural winner and two-time nominee Eve
A blonde woman wearing a black and white-striped top singing into a microphone
Inaugural winner and two-time nominee Gwen Stefani
A man dressed in black rapping in front of a band
Seven-time winner and eleven-time nominee Jay-Z
A man wearing a blue T-shirt, a black jacket and sunglasses
Four-time winner and fourteen-time nominee Kanye West
A woman wearing a flowery black dress on a red carpet
Five-time winner and nine-time nominee Rihanna
Year[I] Performing artists Work Nominees Ref.
2002 Eve featuring Gwen Stefani "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" [5]
2003 Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland "Dilemma" [6]
2004 Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z "Crazy in Love" [7]
2005 Usher featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon "Yeah!" [8]
2006 Linkin Park and Jay-Z "Numb/Encore" [9]
2007 Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. "My Love" [10]
2008 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z "Umbrella" [11]
2009 Estelle featuring Kanye West "American Boy" [12]
2010 Jay-Z featuring Rihanna and Kanye West "Run This Town" [13]
2011 Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind" [14]
2012 Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie "All of the Lights" [15]
2013 Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean and The-Dream "No Church in the Wild" [16]
2014 Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake "Holy Grail" [17]
2015 Eminem featuring Rihanna "The Monster" [18]
2016 Kendrick Lamar featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat "These Walls" [19]
2017 Drake "Hotline Bling" [20]
2018 Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna "LOYALTY." [21]
2019 Childish Gambino "This Is America" [22]
2020 TBA TBA [23]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artists with multiple wins

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Artists with multiple nominations

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See also

References

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  4. Grammy Press Release, 16 June 2016
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