# 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

| Year | Song | Artist | Nominees |
| 1992 | "The Phuncky Feel One" | Cypress Hill | |
| 1993 | "We Getz Busy" | Illegal | Digable 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 112 | Sean 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 Gunz | Wyclef Jean - "Gone till November" Mase - "What You Want" Sean Combs & The Family - "Been Around the World" |
| 1999 | "Who Dat" | JT Money featuring Solé | Busta 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 Dogg | City High - "What Would You" Lil Romeo - "My Baby" Outkast - "Ms. Jackson" |
| 2002 | "Hot in Herre" | Nelly | Nelly 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 Ludacris | The 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 Rihanna | B.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 GoonRock | LMFAO - "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 Wanz | Flo 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 Dalton | Pitbull 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 XCX | Iggy 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 Puth | Drake - "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 Balvin | Drake - "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 Cyrus | Lil Tecca - "Ransom" Lizzo - "Truth Hurts" Post Malone and Swae Lee - "Sunflower" Post Malone - "Wow" |
| 2021 | "Rockstar" | DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch | 24kGoldn 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 Harlow | Drake 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 Savage | Gunna - "Fukumean" Coi Leray - "Players" Lil Durk featuring J. Cole - "All My Life" Toosii - "Favorite Song" |
| 2024 | "Not Like Us" | Kendrick Lamar | Doja Cat - "Agora Hills" Doja Cat - "Paint the Town Red" Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar - "Like That" Jack Harlow - "Lovin on Me" |

## Superlatives

| Wins | Artist |
| 2 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
| 2 | Lil Nas X |
| Nominations | Artist |
| 6 | Drake |
| 4 | Post Malone |
| 3 | 21 Savage |
| 3 | Sean Combs |
| 3 | Nelly |
| 3 | Flo Rida |
| 3 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
| 3 | Cardi B |
| 2 | Ashanti |
| 2 | Snoop Dogg |
| 2 | 50 Cent |
| 2 | B.o.B |
| 2 | LMFAO |
| 2 | Jay-Z |
| 2 | Eminem |
| 2 | Rihanna |
| 2 | Iggy Azalea |
| 2 | Big Sean |
| 2 | Nicki Minaj |
| 2 | Fetty Wap |
| 2 | Swae Lee |
| 2 | Megan Thee Stallion |
| 2 | DaBaby |
| 2 | Lil Wayne |
| 2 | Lil Nas X |
| 2 | Jack Harlow |
| 2 | Kendrick Lamar |