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In honor of us making it to 2021, here’s a thread of my 21 favorite projects of 2020
21.Spilligion by Spillage Village
This album is 1 of a kind and deserved to be a part of the hip hop conversation for longer this year.
Best songs: PsalmSing, Ea’alah, and Mecca
This album is 1 of a kind and deserved to be a part of the hip hop conversation for longer this year.
Best songs: PsalmSing, Ea’alah, and Mecca
20. Lost Kingz by The God Fahim
Fahim probably gets more hate than anyone on here but even the haters can’t deny that this album has bangers from start to finish.
Best Songs: Renowned, Blade Fordge, and Stay Fly
Fahim probably gets more hate than anyone on here but even the haters can’t deny that this album has bangers from start to finish.
Best Songs: Renowned, Blade Fordge, and Stay Fly
19. Bebey by Theophilus London
The most slept on record of the year, this should be the soundtrack to everyone’s next spring break.
Best Songs: Bebey, Marchin, and Whoop Tang Flow
The most slept on record of the year, this should be the soundtrack to everyone’s next spring break.
Best Songs: Bebey, Marchin, and Whoop Tang Flow
18. Threesome EP by Hus Kingpin
The smoothest project of the year.
Best Songs: Magic, Say So, and Winter
The smoothest project of the year.
Best Songs: Magic, Say So, and Winter
17. Only For Dolphins by Action Bronson
Bronson keeps adding to one of the most impressive discographies of the last decade, and he just keeps getting funnier.
Best Songs: Cliff Hanger, Sergio, and Marcus Aurelius
Bronson keeps adding to one of the most impressive discographies of the last decade, and he just keeps getting funnier.
Best Songs: Cliff Hanger, Sergio, and Marcus Aurelius
16. House EP by Lupe Fiasco
The fact that the GOAT is number 16 proves just how great this year was for music.
Best Songs: Dinosaurs, Sledom, and LF95
The fact that the GOAT is number 16 proves just how great this year was for music.
Best Songs: Dinosaurs, Sledom, and LF95
15.Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God by Busta Rhymes
29 years after his first album and this man is still one of the best rappers breathing.
Best Songs: YUUU, Best I Can, and Look Over Your Shoulder
29 years after his first album and this man is still one of the best rappers breathing.
Best Songs: YUUU, Best I Can, and Look Over Your Shoulder
14. Arctic Plus Degrees (The Sun Don’t Chill Allah) by Planet Asia
One of the coldest rappers of all time. PA still has his impeccable ear for beats and his incredible command over the mic.
Best Songs: Asteroid, Let Off The Steam, and Twirl
One of the coldest rappers of all time. PA still has his impeccable ear for beats and his incredible command over the mic.
Best Songs: Asteroid, Let Off The Steam, and Twirl
13. The Sharecropper’s Daughter by Sa-Roc
Some of the best hip hop made this year and should be on everyone’s year end lists.
Best Songs: Rocwell’s America, Something Real, and The Black Renaissance
Some of the best hip hop made this year and should be on everyone’s year end lists.
Best Songs: Rocwell’s America, Something Real, and The Black Renaissance
12. Directors Cut (Scene Two) by Ransom
I could’ve chose any of the projects Ransom and Nicholas Craven released this year but this one has 2 of my favorite songs of the year. Phenomenal rapping meets phenomenal production.
Best Songs: A Beautiful Mind, and There Will Be Blood
I could’ve chose any of the projects Ransom and Nicholas Craven released this year but this one has 2 of my favorite songs of the year. Phenomenal rapping meets phenomenal production.
Best Songs: A Beautiful Mind, and There Will Be Blood
11. Circles by Mac Miller
A lot of music has released since this album but this one feels like it’s gonna stay in my rotation for a long long time.
Best Songs: Everybody, Blue World, Hand Me Downs, and That’s On Me
A lot of music has released since this album but this one feels like it’s gonna stay in my rotation for a long long time.
Best Songs: Everybody, Blue World, Hand Me Downs, and That’s On Me
10. Unlocked by Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
This album feels so different from any other album I’ve ever heard and it just works.
Best Songs: Lay_Up.m4a, Pyro, and DIET_
This album feels so different from any other album I’ve ever heard and it just works.
Best Songs: Lay_Up.m4a, Pyro, and DIET_
9. LULU by Conway the Machine & The Alchemist
Conway might have released better full albums this year but 14 KI’s to Calvin is one of the best runs of the year and Calvin has been SOTY for me from the 1st time I heard it.
Best Songs: Calvin, 14 KI’s, and Shoot Sideways
Conway might have released better full albums this year but 14 KI’s to Calvin is one of the best runs of the year and Calvin has been SOTY for me from the 1st time I heard it.
Best Songs: Calvin, 14 KI’s, and Shoot Sideways
8. Gunpowder by Hus KingPin
This is one of the best produced and rapped projects of the year. And the Covid skits make this the perfect representation of the 2020 street rap boom.
Best Songs: The Bucketlist, The Waterworld, Shadow Chess
This is one of the best produced and rapped projects of the year. And the Covid skits make this the perfect representation of the 2020 street rap boom.
Best Songs: The Bucketlist, The Waterworld, Shadow Chess
7. Limbo by Aminé
If J. Cole put out this album it would be the most talked about album of the year.
Best Songs: Burden, Shimmy, and My Reality
If J. Cole put out this album it would be the most talked about album of the year.
Best Songs: Burden, Shimmy, and My Reality
6. Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) by Jay Electronica
Worth the wait.
Best Songs: Bonnie & Clyde, Road to Perdition, and Run & Hide
Worth the wait.
Best Songs: Bonnie & Clyde, Road to Perdition, and Run & Hide
5. Little Dominiques Nosebleed by The Koreatown Oddity
A 1 of a kind album that deserves all the recognition it can get. After my first listen I instantly knew I was gonna be listening to this for years.
Best Songs: Weed in LA, Lap of Luxury, and Kimchi
A 1 of a kind album that deserves all the recognition it can get. After my first listen I instantly knew I was gonna be listening to this for years.
Best Songs: Weed in LA, Lap of Luxury, and Kimchi
4. Pray for Paris by Westside Gunn
This album gets better with every listen. This is what a Westside Gunn album should feel like, grimy and lavish.
Best Songs: $500 Ounces, Allah Sent me, and 327
This album gets better with every listen. This is what a Westside Gunn album should feel like, grimy and lavish.
Best Songs: $500 Ounces, Allah Sent me, and 327
3. A Written Testimony by Jay Electronica
As the year continues, this album proves that quality always lasts over quantity.
Best Songs: Ghost of Soulja Slim, The Neverending Story, and Shiny Suit Theory
As the year continues, this album proves that quality always lasts over quantity.
Best Songs: Ghost of Soulja Slim, The Neverending Story, and Shiny Suit Theory
2. Reasonable Drought by Stove God Cooks
Cooks shot out of a canon on this album. Incredible.
Best Songs: the whole damn thing
Cooks shot out of a canon on this album. Incredible.
Best Songs: the whole damn thing
1. Miles by Blu & Exile
Don’t let the length deter you, this is one of the best pieces of art that hip hop has given us in years. Top notch rapping and production from start to finish.
Best Songs: When Gods Meet, The Feeling, You Ain’t Never Been Blue, and The American Dream
Don’t let the length deter you, this is one of the best pieces of art that hip hop has given us in years. Top notch rapping and production from start to finish.
Best Songs: When Gods Meet, The Feeling, You Ain’t Never Been Blue, and The American Dream
