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Posted: 2021-03-14T23:50:53Z | Updated: 2021-03-14T23:53:19Z

Hip-hop maestro Nas finally won his first Grammy on Sunday after 13 nominations across more than two decades.

The 47-year-old rapper from the Queens borough of New York City, won Best Rap Album for his 13th album, Kings Disease.

The album beat out Black Habits by D Smoke, A Written Testimony by Jay Electronica, Alfredo by Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist, and The Allegory by Royce da 59.

Kings Disease, released Aug. 21, was headlined by the lead single Ultra Black, an unapologetic celebration of Black culture in America. In an interview with British music magazine NME in November, Nas said that he had attempted to create a record similar to James Browns 1968 classic Say It Loud Im Black and Im Proud and said it was necessary for Black artists to make similar anthems because of the foot on our necks.

Were in a world right now where were facing some really terrible racist practices, and there are people who dont realize its happening, Nas said. So these records were made to remind us that we are Gods creation, just like every white man, every Asian brother and everyone else.

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