Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song explained

The Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song winners and nominees. This award has been given to "Fancy", "The Phuncky Feel One", "Hot in Herre", "See You Again", "I'll Be Missing You", and "Love the Way You Lie".

Winners and nominees

YearSongArtistNominees
1992"The Phuncky Feel One"[1] Cypress Hill
1993"We Getz Busy"[2] IllegalDigable Planets - "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"
Positive K - "I Got a Man"
Lords of the Underground - "Chief Rocka"
1997"I'll Be Missing You"[3] Sean Combs featuring Faith Evans and 112Sean Combs featuring Mase - "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"
MC Lyte - "Cold Rock a Party"
Foxy Brown featuring Jay Z - "I'll Be"
1998"Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)"[4] Lord Tariq & Peter GunzWyclef Jean - "Gone till November"
Mase - "What You Want"
Sean Combs & The Family - "Been Around the World"
1999"Who Dat"[5] JT Money featuring SoléBusta Rhymes featuring Janet Jackson - "What's It Gonna Be?!"
Silkk the Shocker - "Somebody Like Me"
Mo Thugs featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Ghetto Cowboy"
2001"Bow Wow (That's My Name)"[6] Bow Wow featuring Snoop DoggCity High - "What Would You"
Lil Romeo - "My Baby"
Outkast - "Ms. Jackson"
2002"Hot in Herre"[7] NellyNelly featuring Kelly Rowland - "Dilemma"
Fat Joe featuring Ashanti - "What's Luv?"
Ja Rule featuring Ashanti - "Always on Time"
2005"Lovers and Friends"[8] Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz featuring Usher and LudacrisThe Game featuring 50 Cent - "How We Do"
50 Cent featuring Olivia - "Candy Shop"
Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell Williams - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
2011"Love the Way You Lie"[9] Eminem featuring RihannaB.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - "Airplanes"
B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - "Nothin' on You"
Far East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev - "Like a G6"
Nelly - "Just a Dream"
2012"Party Rock Anthem"[10] LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRockLMFAO - "Sexy and I Know It"
Nicki Minaj - "Super Bass"
Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer - "Give Me Everything"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
2013"Thrift Shop"[11] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring WanzFlo Rida - "Whistle"
Flo Rida featuring Sia - "Wild Ones"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz - "Mercy"
2014"Can't Hold Us"[12] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray DaltonPitbull featuring Kesha - "Timber"
Eminem featuring Rihanna - "The Monster"
Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake - "Holy Grail"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Thrift Shop"
2015"Fancy"[13] Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCXIggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - "Black Widow"
Big Sean featuring E-40 - "I Don't Fuck with You"
Nicki Minaj - "Anaconda"
Bobby Shmurda - "Hot Nigga"
2016"See You Again"Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie PuthDrake - "Hotline Bling"
Fetty Wap - "Trap Queen"
Fetty Wap featuring Remy Boyz - "679"
Silentó - "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)"
2017"Panda"DesiignerDrake - “Fake Love
DRAM featuring Lil Yachty - "Broccoli"
Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert - “Bad and Boujee
Rae Sremmurd featuring Gucci Mane - "Black Beatles"
2018"Rockstar"Post Malone featuring 21 SavageCardi B - "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)"
DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne - "I'm the One"
French Montana featuring Swae Lee - "Unforgettable"
Kendrick Lamar - "Humble."
2019I Like It[14] Cardi B with Bad Bunny and J BalvinDrake - "In My Feelings"
Juice WRLD - "Lucid Dreams"
Post Malone - "Better Now"
Travis Scott - "Sicko Mode"
2020"Old Town Road"Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray CyrusLil Tecca - "Ransom"
Lizzo - "Truth Hurts"
Post Malone and Swae Lee - "Sunflower"
Post Malone - "Wow"
2021"Rockstar"DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior - "Mood"
Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion - "WAP"
Jack Harlow featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne - "Whats Poppin"
Megan Thee Stallion - "Savage"
2022"Industry Baby"Lil Nas X featuring Jack HarlowDrake featuring 21 Savage and Project Pat - "Knife Talk"
Drake featuring Future and Young Thug - "Way 2 Sexy"
Masked Wolf - "Astronaut in the Ocean"
Polo G - "Rapstar"
2023"Rich Flex"Drake and 21 SavageGunna - "Fukumean"
Coi Leray - "Players"
Lil Durk featuring J. Cole - "All My Life"
Toosii - "Favorite Song"

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rap Song Awards:

WinsArtist
2Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Lil Nas X

The following individuals received two or more Top Rap Song nominations:

NominationsArtist
6Drake
4Post Malone
321 Savage
Sean Combs
Nelly
Flo Rida
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Cardi B
2Ashanti
Snoop Dogg
50 Cent
B.o.B
LMFAO
Jay-Z
Eminem
Rihanna
Iggy Azalea
Big Sean
Nicki Minaj
Fetty Wap
Swae Lee
Megan Thee Stallion
DaBaby
Lil Wayne
Lil Nas X
Jack Harlow

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1992 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  2. Web site: 1993 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  3. Web site: 1997 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  4. Web site: 1998 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  5. Web site: 1999 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  6. Web site: 2001 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  7. Web site: 2002 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  8. Web site: 2005 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  9. Web site: 2011 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  10. Web site: 2012 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  11. Web site: 2013 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  12. Web site: 2014 Billboard Music Awards . Awardsandwinners. October 22, 2016.
  13. Web site: 2015 Billboard Music Awards . May 17, 2015 . . October 22, 2016.
  14. 2019 Billboard Music Awards Winners: The Complete List. Billboard. 2019-05-02.