The 2026 Grammy Award nominations are in and the Greatest Rap Album class is stacked this yr.
On Friday (Nov. 7), The Recording Academy unveiled all of the nominees for the subsequent yr’s annual awards present. Within the working for Greatest Rap album are Clipse’s Let God Kind Em Out, GloRilla’s Wonderful, J.I.D’s God Does Like Ugly, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and Tyler, The Creator, Chromakopia.
Final yr, Doechii took house the coveted award for her mixtape Alligator Bites By no means Heal. She beat out Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Belief You, J. Cole’s May Delete Later, Frequent and Pete Rock’s The Auditorium, Vol. 1 and Eminem’s The Dying Of Slim Shady (Coupe De Grâce) to earn the coveted honor.
Doechii was offered the award by Cardi B, who received the Greatest Rap Album honor in 2019 for Invasion of Privateness. The TDE artist gave an emotionally charged acceptance speech.
“Something is feasible,” Doechii mentioned. “Do not enable anyone to mission any stereotypes on you that inform you you could’t be right here. That you simply’re too darkish, otherwise you’re not sensible sufficient, or that you simply’re too dramatic, or that you simply’re too loud. You’re precisely who you want to be to be proper the place you might be. I’m an affidavit.”
Kendrick Lamar leads all artists this yr with a complete of 9 nominations, together with Album of the Yr, Tune of the Yr, Greatest Rap Album and Greatest Rap Tune. Greatest Rap Efficiency, Greatest Melodic Rap Efficiency and Greatest Pop/Duo Group Efficiency.
The 68th Annual Grammy Awards can be streamed stay from Crypto.com Area on Feb. 1, 2026.
See the Nominees for Greatest Rap Album on the 2026 Grammy Awards
