Top Hip Hop Songs 2009

Lil Wayne dominated rap music at the 2009 Grammy Awards winning four awards including…

Best Rap Album – Tha Carter III

Best Rap Solo Performance – “A Milli”

Best Rap Song – “Lollipop”

The Legendary Rapper Also Wins as a Featured Artist

Best Rap Performance by Duo or Group – “Swagga Like Us”

These are the New Orleans native’s first Grammy awards for his own album.

Lil Wayne lit up the Grammy stage with two powerful showstoppers. He delivered a heart-wrenching tribute to New Orleans with jazz musicians Allen Touissant, Terrence Blanchard and the Dirty Dozen brass band. His cool performance of “Swagga Like Us,” brought rap’s greatest artists on the stage together — Lil Wayne with T.I., Jay-Z, Kanye West and a very pregnant M.I.A.

Lil Wayne was the first musical artist since 2005 to sell a million albums in the first week of release. Tha Carter III sold over 1 million units in its debut week. The Carter III is the best-selling album release of 2008, having sold well over 2.7 million copies domestically since its release in June. The album held the No. 1 position on the Billboard’s Top 200 for three weeks and “Lollipop” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for five weeks. In August, Lil Wayne set the record for charting 13 tracks as a lead or featured artist on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at simultaneously, including the Number One “Lollipop” and “A Milli.”