Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album

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This page lists the winners and nominees for the Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album. The award was first given out during the 1989 ceremony, before being retired in 1996.

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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1980s

YearArtistSingleRef
1989
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper [1]
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock It Takes Two
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Salt-N-Pepa A Salt with a Deadly Pepa

1990s

YearArtistSingleRef
1990
Heavy D and the Boyz Big Tyme [2]
Big Daddy Kane It's a Big Daddy Thing
De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising
Young MC Stone Cold Rhymin'
1991
MC Hammer Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em [3]
Ice Cube Amerikkka's Most Wanted
LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
1992
Public Enemy Apocalypse '91 [4]
Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped
Heavy D and the Boyz Peaceful Journey
Naughty by Nature Naughty by Nature
1993
Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... [5]
Das EFX Dead Serious
Father MC Close to You
Kris Kross Totally Krossed Out
1994
Onyx Bacdafucup [6]
Arrested Development Unplugged
Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Naughty by Nature 19 Naughty III
1995
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle [7]
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin on ah Come Up
Scarface The Diary
Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era
1996
2Pac Me Against The World [8]
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E. 1999 Eternal
Coolio Gangsta's Paradise
Method Man Tical

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