| Year |
Performer |
Title |
Film |
Writers |
Ref. |
2000
2nd Annual |
Meshell Ndegeocello |
"Fool of Me" |
Love & Basketball |
Meshell Ndegeocello and Federico Pena |
[1] |
| Lucy Pearl |
"Dance Tonight" |
Love & Basketball |
Dawn Robinson and Raphael Saadiq |
| Janet Jackson |
"Doesn't Really Matter" |
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps |
Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
| Destiny’s Child |
"Independent Women" |
Charlie's Angels |
Beyoncé, Sam Barnes, Jean-Claude Oliver and Cory Rooney |
| Donell Jones |
"I'll Go" |
Love & Basketball |
Steve "Silk" Hurley and Rashaan Patterson |
| R. Kelly |
"Bad Man" |
Shaft |
R. Kelly |
2001
3rd Annual |
Eric Benet |
"Love Don't Love Me" |
The Brothers |
Eric Benet |
[2] |
| Nelly |
"#1" |
Training Day |
Nelly and Waiel Yaghnam |
| R. Kelly |
"The World's Greatest" |
Ali |
R. Kelly |
| R.L. |
"Good Love" |
The Brothers |
R.L. |
| Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg and Mr. Tan |
"Just a Baby Boy" |
Baby Boy |
Battlecat, Snoop Dogg and Tyrese Gibson |
2002
4th Annual |
Erykah Badu & Common |
"Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" |
Brown Sugar |
Erykah Badu, Maduwkwu Chinwah, Common, Robert Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq and Glenn Strandrige |
[3] |
| Snoop Dogg, Mr. Kane, Bootsy Collins, Quaze and Fred Wesley |
"Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk)" |
Undercover Brother |
George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Snoop Dogg and Jerome Brailey |
| Angie Stone |
"Bring Me Your Heart" |
Brown Sugar |
Hersholt Polk, Angie Stone and Homer Talbert |
| Beyoncé |
"Work It Out" |
Austin Powers in Goldmember |
Beyoncé, Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams |
| Bow Wow, Fundisha, Fabolous and Jermaine Dupri |
"Basketball" |
Like Mike |
James Barlower, Kurt Blow, Full Force, Robert Ford, James Moore, Shirley Walker and William Waring |
2003
5th Annual |
Beyoncé and Walter Williams Sr. |
"He Still Loves Me" |
The Fighting Temptations |
Big Jim Wright, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
[4] |
| Joe Budden |
"Pump It Up" |
2 Fast 2 Furious |
Robert Bell, Just Blaze, George Brown, Joe Budden, Robert Mickens, Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas and Richard Westfield |
| Ludacris |
"Act a Fool" |
2 Fast 2 Furious |
Ludacris |
| LL Cool J and Amerie |
"Paradise" |
Deliver Us From Eva |
Amerie, Samuel Barnes, Keni Burke, Allen Felder, LL Cool J, Jean-Claude Olivier, Norma Jean Wright and 50 Cent |
| Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. |
"Runnin' (Dying to Live)" |
Tupac: Resurrection |
Eminem, Notorious B.I.G., Luis Resto, Tupac Shakur and Edgar Winter |
2006
8th Annual |
Jennifer Hudson |
"And I'm Telling You (I'm Not Going)" |
Dreamgirls |
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen |
[5] |
| Beyoncé |
"Listen" |
Dreamgirls |
Beyoncé, Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen |
| Jennifer Hudson |
"I Am Changing" |
Dreamgirls |
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen |
| OutKast |
"Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)" |
Idlewild |
André 3000 |
| Alicia Keys and Lyfe Jennings |
"People Get Ready" |
Glory Road |
Curtis Mayfield |
2009
10th Annual |
Anika Noni Rose |
"Almost There" |
The Princess and the Frog |
Randy Newman |
[6] |
| Anika Noni Rose |
"Down in New Orleans" |
The Princess and the Frog |
Randy Newman |
| Ne-Yo |
"Never Knew I Needed" |
The Princess and the Frog |
Ne-Yo |
| Stew, De'Adre Aziza and Daniel Breaker |
"Keys" |
Passing Strange |
Stew |
| Mary J. Blige |
"I Can Do Bad All By Myself" |
I Can Do Bad All By Myself |
Mary J. Blige, Chuck Harmony and Ne-Yo |
2010
11th Annual |
John Legend |
"Shine" |
Waiting for Superman |
John Legend |
[7] |
| Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith |
"Never Say Never" |
The Karate Kid |
Justin Bieber, Kuk Harrell, Adam Messinger, Nasri, Omarr Rambert and Jaden Smith |
| Leona Lewis |
"I Know Who I Am" |
For Colored Girls |
Greg Barnhill, Joanna Cotten and Melissa Manchester |
| Queen Latifah |
"Champion" |
Just Wright |
Cool & Dre, Queen Latifah and Jazmine Sullivan |
| Jay Z, Kanye West and Rihanna |
"Run This Town" |
Just Wright |
Jeff Bhasker, Jay Z, No I.D., Rihanna and Kanye West |
2011
12th Annual |
Mary J. Blige |
"The Living Proof" |
The Help |
Mary J. Blige, Harvey Mason, Jr., Thomas Newman and Damon Thomas, |
[8] |
| Ludacris and Slaughterhouse |
"Furiously Dangerous" |
Fast Five |
Kon Artis, Joe Budden, Crooked I, Eminem, Ludacris, Joell Ortiz, Luis Resto and Royce da 5'9" |
| Nicole Beharie |
"My Last Day Without You" |
My Last Day Without You |
Scott Jacoby, Stefan Schaefer and Christoph Silber |
| Cee-Lo Green and Kenny Wayne Shepherd |
"Walkin' Blues" |
Footloose |
R. L. Burnside |
| Jamie Foxx |
"Fly Love" |
Rio |
Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett |
2012
13th Annual |
John Legend |
"Who Did That to You?" |
Django Unchained |
Paul Epworth and John Legend |
[9] |
| John Legend and Ludacris |
"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" |
Think Like a Man |
Allen Arthur, Keith Justice, John Legend, Ludacris, Miguel and Clayton Reilly |
| Travis Barker, RZA, Raekwon and Tom Morello |
"Carry It" |
The Man with the Iron Fists |
Travis Barker, Tom Morello, Raekwon and RZA |
| Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean |
"No Church in the Wild" |
Safe House |
James Brown, Mike Dean, Jay Z, Phil Manzanera, Frank Ocean, Joseph Roach, The-Dream, Kanye West, Gary Wright and 88-Keys |
| Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston |
"Celebrate" |
Sparkle |
R. Kelly |
2013
14th Annual |
Judith Hill |
"Desperation" |
20 Feet from Stardom |
Judith Hill |
[10] |
| Fantasia Barrino |
"In the Middle of the Night" |
The Butler |
Fantasia Barrino, Keith McMasters, Abel Terry and Kassim VonRico Washington |
| Alicia Keys |
"Queen of the Field (Patsey's Song)" |
12 Years a Slave |
Alicia Keys |
| Gladys Knight |
"You & I Ain't No More" |
The Butler |
Lenny Kravitz |
| Pharrell Williams |
"Happy" |
Despicable Me 2 |
Pharrell Williams |
2014
15th Annual |
Common and John Legend |
"Glory" |
Selma |
Common, John Legend and Rhymefest |
[11] |
| Questlove and Eliza Colby |
"It Ain't Easy" |
Top Five |
Eliza Colby and Questlove |
| Janelle Monáe |
"What is Love" |
Rio 2 |
Janelle Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III and Roman Irvin |
| Rita Ora |
"Grateful" |
Beyond the Lights |
Diane Warren |
| Alicia Keys and Kendrick Lamar |
"It's On Again" |
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 |
Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar and Hans Zimmer |
2015
16th Annual |
Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth |
"See You Again" |
Furious 7 |
Andrew Cedar, DJ Frank E, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth |
[11] |
| Tessa Thompson |
"Grip" |
Creed |
Sam Dew, Ludwig Göransson and Tessa Thompson |
| Childish Gambino, Vince Staples and Jhené Aiko |
"Waiting for My Moment" |
Creed |
Ryan Coogler, Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson and Vince Staples |
| The Weeknd |
"Earned It" |
Fifty Shades of Grey |
The Weeknd, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville and Belly |
| Dr. Dre |
"Talking to My Diary" |
Straight Outta Compton |
Dr. Dre, Russell Brown, Camille Clerc and François de Roubaix |