The 2025 Grammy Awards nominations were revealed on November 8th. The Best Rap Album category has, historically, been a source of contention among hip-hop fans for their inconsistency. For every great moment, like Nas finally capturing the award for the unexpectedly fantastic comeback album King’s Disease in 2021 (the award did not even exist when Illmatic released in 1994), there is an equally perplexing moment, like Macklemore ’s The Heist beating out Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.
A.A.d city in 2014.
J. Cole’s Might Delete Later , Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady: Coup de Grace , Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal , Future & Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You , and Common & Pete Rock’s The Auditorium, Vol. 1 make up the Best Rap Album category this year.
Here are five more albums released in 2024 that I believe could also have been nominated for the divisive, but prestigious, award. The submission eligibility period this year covers albums released between September 16, 2023, and August 30, 2024. Therefore, anything released after that (i.
e. LL Cool J & Q-Tip’s The FORCE and Blu & Exile’s Love (the) Ominous World ) did not make the list. Read More: Andre 3000, GloRilla, Run-DMC, & More React To Their Grammy Nominations ScHoolboy Q has received two Best Rap Album nominations in his career.
The first came in 2015 for Oxymoron , the album that doubled as Q’s breakthrough into commercial viability (thanks in part to the success of “Studio,” the track.