# MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video was first given out in 1989, and it was one of the four original genre categories added at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. This award was last given out in 2006, as MTV did not bring it back in 2008 like it did with other genre awards. Instead, artists and videos that were previously eligible for Best Rap Video are now eligible for Best Hip-Hop Video. Will Smith, Arrested Development, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z are tied as this award's biggest winners, each having won it twice.

## Recipients

| Year | Winner | Other nominees |
| 1989 | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince — "Parents Just Don't Understand" | Ice-T — "Colors" Kool Moe Dee — "How Ya Like Me Now" MC Hammer — "Turn This Mutha Out" Tone Lōc — "Wild Thing" |
| 1990 | MC Hammer — "U Can't Touch This" | Digital Underground — "The Humpty Dance" Biz Markie — "Just a Friend" Young MC — "Principal's Office" |
| 1991 | LL Cool J — "Mama Said Knock You Out" | 3rd Bass — "Pop Goes the Weasel" DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince — "Summertime" Ice-T — "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" Monie Love — "It's a Shame (My Sister)" |
| 1992 | Arrested Development — "Tennessee" | Black Sheep — "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)" Kris Kross — "Jump" Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch — "Good Vibrations" Sir Mix-a-Lot — "Baby Got Back" |
| 1993 | Arrested Development — "People Everyday" | Digable Planets — "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Dr. Dre — "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" Naughty by Nature — "Hip Hop Hooray" |
| 1994 | Snoop Doggy Dogg — "Doggy Dogg World" | Coolio — "Fantastic Voyage" Cypress Hill — "Insane in the Brain" Dr. Dre — "Let Me Ride" |
| 1995 | Dr. Dre — "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" | Brandy (featuring MC Lyte, Queen Latifah and Yo-Yo) — "I Wanna Be Down" Da Bush Babees — "Remember We" Craig Mack — "Flava in Ya Ear" Public Enemy — "Give It Up" Rappin' 4-Tay (featuring The Spinners) — "I'll Be Around" |
| 1996 | Coolio (featuring L.V.) — "Gangsta's Paradise" | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads" LL Cool J — "Doin' It" 2Pac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) — "California Love" |
| 1997 | The Notorious B.I.G. — "Hypnotize" | Blackstreet (featuring Dr. Dre) — "No Diggity" Dr. Dre — "Been There, Done That" Missy Elliott — "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" |
| 1998 | Will Smith — "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" | Busta Rhymes — "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Master P (featuring Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal) — "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" The Notorious B.I.G. (featuring Puff Daddy and Mase) — "Mo Money Mo Problems" Pras (featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard and Mýa) — "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" |
| 1999 | Jay-Z (featuring Ja Rule and Amil) — "Can I Get A..." | 2Pac — "Changes" DMX — "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" Nas (featuring Puff Daddy) — "Hate Me Now" |
| 2000 | Dr. Dre (featuring Eminem) — "Forgot About Dre" | DMX — "Party Up" Eminem — "The Real Slim Shady" Eve (featuring Faith Evans) — "Love Is Blind" Jay-Z (featuring UGK) — "Big Pimpin'" |
| 2001 | Nelly — "Ride wit Me" | Eminem (featuring Dido) — "Stan" Ja Rule (featuring Lil' Mo and Vita) — "Put It on Me" Jay-Z — "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" Snoop Dogg (featuring Master P, Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy and Tha Eastsidaz) — "Lay Low" |
| 2002 | Eminem — "Without Me" | DMX — "Who We Be" Ludacris (featuring Sleepy Brown) — "Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)" Nas — "One Mic" P. Diddy (featuring Black Rob and Mark Curry) — "Bad Boy for Life" |
| 2003 | 50 Cent — "In da Club" | 2Pac (featuring Nas) — "Thugz Mansion" Eminem — "Lose Yourself" Ludacris (featuring Mystikal) — "Move" Nas — "I Can" |
| 2004 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems" | 50 Cent (featuring Snoop Dogg and G-Unit) — "P.I.M.P. (remix)" D12 — "My Band" Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz (featuring Ying Yang Twins) — "Get Low" Ludacris (featuring Shawnna) — "Stand Up" |
| 2005 | Ludacris — "Number One Spot" | Eminem — "Just Lose It" The Game (featuring 50 Cent) — "Hate It or Love It" T.I. — "U Don't Know Me" Ying Yang Twins — "Wait (The Whisper Song)" |
| 2006 | Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone) — "Ridin'" | 50 Cent — "Window Shopper" Busta Rhymes (featuring Mary J. Blige, Rah Digga, Missy Elliott, Lloyd Banks, Papoose, and DMX) — "Touch It (Remix)" T.I. — "What You Know" Yung Joc (featuring Nitti) — "It's Goin' Down" |