Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Album

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.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1980s

Year	Artist	Album	Ref
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

Year	Artist	Album	Ref
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