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Dec 1st, 2025

Best Rap Performance

Best Rap Performance

Nominees for The GRAMMY Awards

2026

Previous Winner

Not Like Us (Kendrick Lamar)

Field

R&B + Rap + Spoken Word Poetry

Criteria

For new rap performances; singles/tracks only.

For new rap performances; singles/tracks only.

The nominees for The GRAMMYs Best Rap Performance 2026 are Outside (Cardi B), Chains & Whips (Clipse, Pusha T, Malice), Anxiety (Doechii), tv off (Kendrick Lamar), Darling, I (Tyler, The Creator).

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