--- description: Cardi B took home the award for Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammy Awards, becoming the first solo female artist to win in the category. title: Cardi B Just Became the First Solo Female Artist to Win Best Rap Album Grammy image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25f999a6743c5807/698944e7b21a9c571650011b/cardi-b-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [awards](/tag/awards/) ## awards Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Cardi B Just Became the First Solo Female Artist to Win a Grammy for Best Rap Album by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 11, 2019 4:56 AM CUT  Cardi B accepts the award for Best Rap Album with "Invasion Of Privacy" onstage, next to Offset, during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. Cardi B accepts the award for Best Rap Album with "Invasion Of Privacy" onstage, next to Offset, during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 11, 2019 4:56 AM CUT Cardi B took home the Grammy award for Best Rap Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, becoming the first solo female artist to win in the category. For the most part, male artists have won every year since Best Rap Album became an annual Grammys category in 1996, with the group Naughty by Nature named the first winners. Prior to Cardi B’s win, the only other woman to win got her award in 1997, when the hip-hop group Fugees, which included Lauryn Hill, won Best Rap Album for _The Score_. With a victory for her 2018 album _Invasion of Privacy_, [Cardi B](http://time.com/5526361/grammys-2019-cardi-b-red-carpet/ "undefined") not only becomes the first woman to win best rap album as a solo artist but also takes home her first ever Grammy win. In her acceptance speech, Cardi B thanked her collaborators and gave a special shoutout to her daughter, Kulture, who was born last July. “When I found out, my album was not complete … we have to get this album done so I could shoot these videos while I’m still not showing,” she said. “It was very long nights.” The rapper was also nominated for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Performance and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5526525/grammys-2019-cardi-b-best-rap-album/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5526525/grammys-2019-cardi-b-best-rap-album/"},"headline":"Cardi B Just Became the First Solo Female Artist to Win a Grammy for Best Rap Album","datePublished":"2019-02-11T04:56:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:44:19.693Z","description":"The category was created in 1996","url":"https://time.com/5526525/grammys-2019-cardi-b-best-rap-album/","keywords":["awards","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25f999a6743c5807/698944e7b21a9c571650011b/cardi-b-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25f999a6743c5807/698944e7b21a9c571650011b/cardi-b-grammy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Grammy Awards Winners 2019","caption":"Cardi B accepts the award for Best Rap Album with \"Invasion Of Privacy\" onstage, next to Offset, during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5526525/grammys-2019-cardi-b-best-rap-album/","name":"Cardi B Just Became the First Solo Female Artist to Win a Grammy for Best Rap Album"}}]}] ```