| Year | Song | Artist | Nominees |
|---|
| 1992 | "The Phuncky Feel One" [1] | Cypress Hill | |
| 1993 | "We Getz Busy" [2] | 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" [3] | Sean Combs featuring Faith Evans and 112 | Sean Combs featuring Mase - "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" [3]
MC Lyte - "Cold Rock a Party"
Foxy Brown featuring Jay Z - "I'll Be" |
| 1998 | "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" [4] | Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz | Wyclef Jean - "Gone till November" [4]
Mase - "What You Want"
Sean Combs & The Family - "Been Around the World" |
| 1999 | "Who Dat" [5] | JT Money featuring Solé [5] | 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)" [6] | Bow Wow featuring Snoop Dogg [6] | City High - "What Would You" [6]
Lil Romeo - "My Baby"
Outkast - "Ms. Jackson" |
| 2002 | "Hot in Herre" [7] | Nelly | Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - "Dilemma" [7]
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 Ludacris | The Game featuring 50 Cent - "How We Do" [8]
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 Rihanna | B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - "Airplanes" [9]
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 GoonRock | LMFAO - "Sexy and I Know It" [10]
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 Wanz | Flo Rida - "Whistle" [11]
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 Dalton | Pitbull featuring Kesha - "Timber" [12]
Eminem featuring Rihanna - "The Monster"
Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake - "Holy Grail"
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Thrift Shop" |
| 2015 | "Fancy" [13] | Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX | Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora - "Black Widow" [13]
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” [14] | 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" |