Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
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Oct 28, 2026
Lauren V. DavisHOST
And in 2017, the next year, Chance the Rapper won three Grammys.
Lauren V. DavisHOST
Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, Best New Artist, three Grammys for a project he released with no traditional record label, and the Recording Academy called him the first streaming exclusive artist to win a Grammy.
Lauren V. DavisHOST
He changed the rules.
Lauren V. DavisHOST
And why I love talking about this record is, and why I love talking about Chance the Rapper is because he didn't really invent independent music or mixtapes or streaming or hip hop.
Loren LoRosaHOST
...
Loren LoRosaHOST
Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video, so-
Jess HilariousHOST
Oh, wow
Loren LoRosaHOST
... we'll see when the nominations come out.
Loren LoRosaHOST
... it's two: Song of the Year and Best Rap Song Performance.
Jess HilariousHOST
Mm.
Loren LoRosaHOST
I'm sorry, Best Rap Performance and Song of the Year.
DJ EnvyHOST
Okay.
Justin HunteHOST
Uh, Album of the Year is the overall, uh, Album of the Year across genres, for people who don't know, and then Best Rap Album, of course.
Justin HunteHOST
And then she submitted the song God Got A Afro for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Music vi- Video.
Justin HunteHOST
I talk about this song all the time.
Justin HunteHOST
I feel like this song should be over there with, like, Nas', uh, I Know I Can, you know what I mean? I feel like kids all across the country [laughs] should be singing this song.
Justin HunteHOST
You know what I mean? Like, the fact that these last two that we looked at, at least maybe not Pharrell, but Rapsody, it doesn't look like she submitted for that.
Justin HunteHOST
Missed opportunity.
Justin HunteHOST
Why not give it a shot? Also, Good Flirts featuring Kendrick Lamar and Momo Boyd, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Performance.
Justin HunteHOST
Birds and the Bees, Best Music Video, Best Melodic Rap Performance.
speaker_1HOST
To a song like that? I don't think so.
speaker_1HOST
Body, Best Rap Performance.
speaker_1HOST
And then, interesting, the controversial... nomination for Don Toliver and his Grammy submissions.
speaker_1HOST
Best New Artist.
PhilHOST
Mm-hmm
JoshHOST
... which would win its first Grammy Award, w- would win the first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.
JoshHOST
[laughs]
PhilHOST
Ouch, yeah.
Clint BarrettHOST
So there's that.
Clint BarrettHOST
Uh, interesting factoid, Bust A Move won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1990.
Clint BarrettHOST
It helped, uh, push rap kinda further into the pop mainstream radio rotation, I guess you would say, at the time when the genre was still not as popular as it would become.
Clint BarrettHOST
Another interesting factoid, Young MC actually wrote Wild Thing for Tone Lōc, so how about that? I didn't know that.
Fetty WapGUEST
We be counting up, watch how far them bands go.
Ashan SinghCORRESPONDENT
The hit receiving two Grammy nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance in 2015, catapulting him to fame.
Ashan SinghCORRESPONDENT
You do know that that song raised a generation of parents who now have these kids.
Fetty WapGUEST
At first it was a rap song, and at this time-
RobHOST
It held the top spot for 11 weeks, 11 consecutive weeks.
RobHOST
It won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or a Group.
RobHOST
Um, and if you recall, Sting joined Puff Daddy-
DavidHOST
He did
AstraPANELIST
And get this, he wrote the lyrics in just 90 minutes while he was still a student at USC.
AstraPANELIST
Now, the song peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it went on to win the Grammy for Best Rap Performance, and the bassline that you hear is actually Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who, by the way, was also in the music video.
AstraPANELIST
As for Young MC today, well, he's still performing.
AstraPANELIST
He actually played several shows around the country this year, and naturally, Bust a Move remains his signature hit.