Juno Award for Rap Album/EP of the Year

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The Juno Award for Rap Album or EP of the Year is an annual Canadian music award, presented by the Juno Awards to honour full-length releases by Canadian hip hop artists. Announced at the Juno Awards of 2021, it was presented for the first time at the Juno Awards of 2022. [1]

The award is presented alongside a new category for Rap Single of the Year.

Until 2022, albums and individual songs were considered together under the single Rap Recording of the Year category. [2] The changes were announced to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Junos rap category. [3]

Winners and nominees

YearWinnerAlbumNomineesRef.
2022 Haviah Mighty Stock Exchange [4]
2023 TOBi Shall I Continue? [5]
2024 TOBi Panic [6]
2025 TBA [7]

References

  1. Friend, David (June 4, 2021). "The Weeknd leads winners at historic pre-telecast Junos with three awards". Toronto Star via The Canadian Press . Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  2. "Kinder, gentler rap, eh? Canadians hip-hop onto centre stage". Ottawa Citizen , March 7, 1999.
  3. Patel, Ari (June 5, 2021). "2021 Juno Awards celebrates 30 years since creation of rap music category". CBC News . Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  4. Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.
  5. "Junos 2023: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 13, 2023.
  6. "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.
  7. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 11, 2025.