Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song


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"Cypress Hill
1993"We Getz Busy"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"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)"Lord Tariq & Peter GunzWyclef Jean - "Gone till November"
Mase - "What You Want"
Sean Combs & The Family - "Been Around the World"
1999"Who Dat"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)"Bow Wow featuring Snoop DoggCity High - "What Would You"
Lil Romeo - "My Baby"
Outkast - "Ms. Jackson"
2002"Hot in Herre"NellyNelly featuring Kelly Rowland - "Dilemma"
Fat Joe featuring Ashanti - "What's Luv?"
Ja Rule featuring Ashanti - "Always on Time"
2005"Lovers and Friends"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"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"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"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"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"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"Desiigner
Drake - “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 Savage
Cardi 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."
2019“I Like It”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"
2024"Not Like Us"Kendrick LamarDoja Cat - "Agora Hills"
Doja Cat - "Paint the Town Red"
Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar - "Like That"
Jack Harlow - "Lovin on Me"

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rap Song Awards:
WinsArtist
2Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2Lil Nas X

The following individuals received two or more Top Rap Song nominations:
NominationsArtist
6Drake
4Post Malone
321 Savage
3Sean Combs
3Nelly
3Flo Rida
3Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
3Cardi B
2Ashanti
2Snoop Dogg
250 Cent
2B.o.B
2LMFAO
2Jay-Z
2Eminem
2Rihanna
2Iggy Azalea
2Big Sean
2Nicki Minaj
2Fetty Wap
2Swae Lee
2Megan Thee Stallion
2DaBaby
2Lil Wayne
2Lil Nas X
2Jack Harlow
2Kendrick Lamar