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

YearWinnerOther nomineesRef.
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince — "Parents Just Don't Understand"
MC Hammer — "U Can't Touch This"
  • Digital Underground — "The Humpty Dance"
  • Biz Markie — "Just a Friend"
  • Young MC — "Principal's Office"
    • 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 "
  • Monie Love — "It's a Shame "
    • Arrested Development — "Tennessee"
  • Black Sheep — "The Choice Is Yours "
  • Kris Kross — "Jump"
  • Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch — "Good Vibrations"
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot — "Baby Got Back"
    • Arrested Development — "People Everyday"
  • Digable Planets — "Rebirth of Slick "
  • Dr. Dre — "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang"
  • Naughty by Nature — "Hip Hop Hooray"
    • Snoop Doggy Dogg — "Doggy Dogg World"
  • Coolio — "Fantastic Voyage"
  • Cypress Hill — "Insane in the Brain"
  • Dr. Dre — "Let Me Ride"
    • Dr. Dre — "Keep Their Heads Ringin'"
  • Brandy — "I Wanna Be Down"
  • Da Bush Babees — "Remember We"
  • Craig Mack — "Flava in Ya Ear"
  • Public Enemy — "Give It Up"
  • Rappin' 4-Tay — "I'll Be Around"
    • Coolio — "Gangsta's Paradise"
  • Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
  • LL Cool J — "Doin' It"
  • 2Pac — "California Love"
    • The Notorious B.I.G. — "Hypnotize"
  • Blackstreet — "No Diggity"
  • Dr. Dre — "Been There, Done That"
  • Missy Elliott — "The Rain "
    • Will Smith — "Gettin' Jiggy wit It"
  • Busta Rhymes — "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"
  • Master P — "Make 'Em Say Uhh!"
  • The Notorious B.I.G. — "Mo Money Mo Problems"
  • Pras — "Ghetto Supastar "
    • Jay-Z — "Can I Get A..."
  • 2Pac — "Changes"
  • DMX — "Ruff Ryders' Anthem"
  • Nas — "Hate Me Now"
    • Dr. Dre — "Forgot About Dre"
  • DMX — "Party Up"
  • Eminem — "The Real Slim Shady"
  • Eve — "Love Is Blind"
  • Jay-Z — "Big Pimpin'"
    • Nelly — "Ride wit Me"
  • Eminem — "Stan"
  • Ja Rule — "Put It on Me"
  • Jay-Z — "I Just Wanna Love U "
  • Snoop Dogg — "Lay Low"
    • Eminem — "Without Me"
  • DMX — "Who We Be"
  • Ludacris — "Saturday "
  • Nas — "One Mic"
  • P. Diddy — "Bad Boy for Life"
    • 50 Cent — "In da Club"
  • 2Pac — "Thugz Mansion"
  • Eminem — "Lose Yourself"
  • Ludacris — "Move"
  • Nas — "I Can"
    • Jay-Z — "99 Problems"
  • 50 Cent — "P.I.M.P. "
  • D12 — "My Band"
  • Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz — "Get Low"
  • Ludacris — "Stand Up"
    • Ludacris — "Number One Spot"
  • Eminem — "Just Lose It"
  • The Game — "Hate It or Love It"
  • T.I. — "U Don't Know Me"
  • Ying Yang Twins — "Wait "
    • Chamillionaire — "Ridin'"
  • 50 Cent — "Window Shopper"
  • Busta Rhymes — "Touch It "
  • T.I. — "What You Know"
  • Yung Joc — "It's Goin' Down"