On this day in 2010, Eminem wins a Grammy for “Relapse”.
On this day 11 years ago, Eminem won the Grammy for his sixth studio album “Relapse” in the ‘Best Rap Album‘ category, while ‘Crack a Bottle‘ also won for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. The album was debuted number one the Billboard 200, with moving over 600k copies in the first week. The project was released in 2009, following a four-year hiatus from recording due to his break from music after the rap icon suffered a near-fatal prescription pill overdose in 2007.
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2010: Eminem wins Best Rap Album at the Grammys for Relapse
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In the Best Rap Album category at the 2010 Grammy Awards, the album competed against Common’s Universal Mind Control, Flo Rida’s R.O.O.T.S., Mos Def’s The Ecstatic, and Q-The Tip’s Renaissance. Em also took up the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the Relapse track “Crack a Bottle,” which included Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, two of his longstanding collaborators and business associates.
A few weeks ago, Eminem appeared on SiriusXM where he went through his latest Deluxe “MTBMB” album and revealed that he had to start learning how to rap again after his drug overdose in 2007. “A lot of times with the Relapse record when I first started learning how to Rap again because of the drug situation that I went through and having to relearn again a lot of things, that was one of those things. It was like, if it rhymes, say it. I think being able to look back, I mean it’s not really an excuse. But I’m just saying like, there was a phase that I was going through with that Relapse Record, I don’t know it’s just one of those things I just said it cause it rhymed,” says Eminem while discussing the apology to Rihanna.
At the same event, Eminem performed “Forever” and “Drop the World” with Drake and Lil Wayne.
