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 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 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 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 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... Das EFX Dead Serious Father MC Close to You Kris Kross Totally Krossed Out 1994 Onyx Bacdafucup Arrested Development Unplugged Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) Naughty by Nature 19 Naughty III 1995 Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin on ah Come Up Scarface The Diary Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era 1996 2Pac Me Against The World Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E. 1999 Eternal Coolio Gangsta's Paradise Method Man Tical

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