American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song

The American Music Award for Favorite Song – Rap/Hip Hop has been awarded since 2016. Three songs are nominated per year. Cardi B became the first artist to win the award twice. She has won three times.

American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song
"Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar is the most recent recipient
Country	United States
Presented by	American Music Awards
First award	2016
Currently held by	Kendrick Lamar – "Not Like Us"
Most wins	Cardi B (3)
Most nominations	Kendrick Lamar (4)
Website	theamas.com

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Artist	Song	Ref
2016 (44th)
	Drake	"Hotline Bling"	[1]
	Desiigner	"Panda"
	Fetty Wap	"679"
2017 (45th)
	DJ Khaled (featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne)	"I'm the One"	[2]
	Kendrick Lamar	"Humble."
	Rae Sremmurd (featuring Gucci Mane)	"Black Beatles"
2018 (46th)
	Cardi B	"Bodak Yellow"	[3]
	Drake	"God's Plan"
	Post Malone (featuring 21 Savage)	"Rockstar"
2019 (47th)
	Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus)	"Old Town Road"	[4]
	Travis Scott	"Sicko Mode"
	Post Malone	"Wow"

2020s

Year	Artist	Song	Ref
2020 (48th)
	Cardi B (featuring Megan Thee Stallion)	"WAP"	[5]
	DaBaby (featuring Roddy Ricch)	"Rockstar"
	Roddy Ricch	"The Box"
2021 (49th)
	Cardi B	"Up"	[6]
	Internet Money (featuring Gunna, Don Toliver and Nav)	"Lemonade"
	Lil Tjay (featuring 6lack)	"Calling My Phone"
	Polo G	"Rapstar"
	Pop Smoke	"What You Know Bout Love"
2022 (50th)
	Future (featuring Drake and Tems)	"Wait for U"	[7]
	Jack Harlow	"First Class"
	Kodak Black	"Super Gremlin"
	Latto	"Big Energy"
	Lil Nas X (featuring Jack Harlow)	"Industry Baby"
2025 (51st)
	Kendrick Lamar	"Not Like Us"	[8]
	Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar	"Like That"
	GloRilla	"TGIF"
	GloRilla (featuring Sexyy Red)	"Whatchu Kno About Me"
	Kendrick Lamar and SZA	"Luther"

Category facts

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Cardi B

Multiple nominations

4 nominations

• Kendrick Lamar

3 nominations

• Cardi B
• Drake

2 nominations

• Future
• GloRilla
• Jack Harlow
• Lil Nas X
• Post Malone
• Roddy Ricch