Libera Award for Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record

The Libera Award for Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record (known as Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album prior to 2021) is an award presented by the American Association of Independent Music at the annual Libera Award which recognizes "best hip hop or rap album released commercially in the United States by an independent label" since 2017.^[1]

Libera Award for Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record
Awarded for	quality hip-hip and rap records
Country	United States
Presented by	American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
First award	2017
Currently held by	Kenny Beats, Louie Run the Jewels, RTJ Cu4tro (2023)
Website	liberaawards.com

Hip-hop duo Run the Jewels was the first recipient of the award for their album Run the Jewels 3. They are also the only artists who have won the award for than once, with two wins, the second being in 2021 for RTJ4.

Winners and nominees

Run the Jewels was the inaugural winner in 2017.

Year	Winner(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2017	Run the Jewels	Run the Jewels 3	The Impossible Kid – Aesop Rock And the Anonymous Nobody... – De La Soul Good Luck and Do Your Best – Gold Panda 99.9% – Kaytranada Yes Lawd! – NxWorries The Storm – Tech N9ne	[2][3]
2018	Shabazz Palaces	Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star	Harder Than Hard – Lil Baby Gems from the Equinox – Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs Imperius Rex – Sean Price The Saga Continues – Wu-Tang Clan	[4][5]
2019	Awkwafina	In Fina We Trust	August Greene – August Greene Joe Fontana – Myke Bogan Famous Cryp – Blueface JP3 – Junglepussy	[6][7]
2020	Danny Brown	uknowhatimsayin¿	The Big Day – Chance the Rapper There Existed an Addiction to Blood – Clipping ZUU – Denzel Curry Fever – Megan Thee Stallion	[8][9]
2021	Run the Jewels	RTJ4	Visions of Bodies Being Burned – Clipping Drop 6 – Little Simz Little Dominiques Nosebleed – The Koreatown Oddity Startisha – Naeem	[10]
2022	Little Simz	Sometimes I Might Be Introvert	Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep – Mykki Blanco By the Time I Get to Phoenix – Injury Reserve Elephant in the Room – Mick Jenkins Off the Yak – Young M.A "Your Heart" – Joyner Lucas & J. Cole	[11]
2023	Kenny Beats	Louie	Cheat Codes – Danger Mouse and Black Thought Melt My Eyez See Your Future – Denzel Curry Few Good Things – Saba As Above, So Below – Sampa the Great	[12] [13]
	Run the Jewels	RTJ Cu4tro

Artists that received multiple wins

3 wins

• Run the Jewels

Artists that received multiple nominations

3 nominations

• Run the Jewels

2 nominations

• Clipping
• Little Simz
• Denzel Curry