my 5 favorite hip hop projects from each year, a thread

2020

1. RTJ4 - Run the Jewels
2. A Written Testimony - Jay Electronica
3. The Allegory - Royce da 5’9
4. Purple Moonlight Pages - RAP Ferreira
5. Innocent Country 2 - Quelle Chris & Chris Keys

2019

1. GREY Area - Little Simz
2. uknowhatimsayin¿ - Danny Brown
3. All My Heroes Are Corballs - JPEGMAFIA
4. Malibu Ken - Aesop Rock & Tobacco
5. Bandana - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

2018

1. Drogas Wave - the goat
2. Book of Ryan - Royce da 5’9
3. Post Traumatic - Mike Shinoda
4. Pieces of a Man - Mick Jenkins
5. Care For Me - Saba

2017

1. 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time - Big K.R.I.T.
2. Renaissance - The Underachievers
3. The Iceberg - Oddisee
4. All-Amerikkkan Badass - Joey Bada$$
5. The Never Story - J.I.D.

2016

1. The Impossible Kid - Aesop Rock
2. Imperial - Denzel Curry
3. Do What Thou Wilt - Ab-Soul
4. We Got It From Here.. - ATCQ
5. Honor Killed the Samurai - Ka

2015

1. Tetsuo & Youth - the goat
2. Evermore: The Art of Duality - The Underachievers
3. The Good Fight - Oddisee
4. Sour Soul - Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD
5. Big Grams - Big Boi & Phantogram

2014

1. The Water[s]- Mick Jenkins
2. PRhyme - Royce & DJ Premier
3. Piñata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
4. Run the Jewels 2
5. PTSD - Pharoahe Monche

2013

1. Indigoism - The Underachievers
2. King Remembered in Time - Big K.R.I.T.
3. Old - Danny Brown
4. Marshall Mathers LP2 - Eminem
5. CZARFACE

2012

1. Control System - Ab-Soul
2. Amerikkkan Koruption - Capital Steez
3. Popular Culture - XV
4. 4eva N a Day - Big K.R.I.T.
5. 1999 - Joey Bada$$

2011

1. Return of 4eva - Big K.R.I.T.
2. Undun - The Roots
3. Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
4. XXX - Danny Brown
5. Oneirology - CunninLynguists

2010

1. Distant Relatives - Nas & Damien Marley
2. How I Got Over - The Roots
3. K.R.I.T. Wuz Here - Big K.R.I.T.
4. Marcberg - Roc Marciano
5. Recovery - Eminem

2009

1. The Ecstatic - Mos Def
2. Enemy of the State - the goat
3. Relapse - Eminem
4. Born Like This - MF DOOM
5. Felt 3 - Felt (Slug & Murs)

2008

1. Rising Down - The Roots
2. When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold - Atmosphere
3. Eleventh Hour - Del tha Funkee Homosapien
4. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
5. Paper Trail - T.I.

2007

1. The Cool - the goat
2. None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
3. Below the Heavens - Blu & Exile
4. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead - El-P
5. Dirty Acres - CunninLynguists

2006

1. Food & Liquor - the goat
2. Revenge of the Nerds - the goat
3. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
4. A Piece of Strange - CunninLynguists
5. Fish Scale - Ghostface Killah

2005

1. Truth is Among Us - the goat
2. The Minstrel Show - Little Brother
3. The Mouse & the Mask - DANGERDOOM
4. The Foundation - Geto Boys
5. Be - Common

2004

1. MM..FOOD - MF DOOM
2. Madvillainy - Madvillain
3. Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars
4. White People - Handsome Boy Modeling School
5. Neighborhood Watch - Dilated Peoples

2003

1. Vaudeville Villain - Viktor Vaughn
2. Full Circle - Hieroglyphics
3. Champion Sound - JayLib
4. Take Me To Your Leader - King Gheedorah
5. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

2002

1. God Loves Ugly - Atmosphere
2. The Lost Tapes - Nas
3. The Fix - Scarface
4. Fantastic Damage - El-P
5. The Eminem Show

2001

1. Labor Days - Aesop Rock
2. Stillmatic - Nas
3. Will Rap For Food - CunninLynguists
4. Black Bastards - KMD
5. Expansion Team - Dilated Peoples

2000

1. Deltron 3030
2. The Marshall Mathers LP
3. Masters of the Universe - Binary Star
4. Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah
5. Stanktonia - OutKast

1999

1. Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
2. Operation: Doomsday - MF DOOM
3. The Slim Shady LP
4. Beneath the Surface - GZA
5. Things Fall Part - The Roots

1998

1. Black Star
2. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. 3rd Eye Vision - Hieroglyphics
4. Aquemini - OutKast
5. Moment of Truth - Gang Starr

1997

1. Funcrusher Plus - Company Flow
2. The Album - The Firm
3. Life After Death - Biggie
4. The 18th Letter - Rakim
5. Future Development - Del tha Funkee Homosapien

1996

1. It Was Written - Nas
2. All Eyez On Me - 2Pac
3. ATLiens - OutKast
4. The Score - The Fugees
5. Illadelph Halflife - The Roots

1995

1. Me Against the World - 2Pac
2. Liquid Swords - GZA
3. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon
4. Labcabincalifornia - The Pharcyde
5. Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous - Big L

1994

1. Illmatic - Nas
2. Ready to Die - Biggie
3. Blowout Comb - Digable Planets
4. The Main Ingredient - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
5. The Diary - Scarface

1993

1. Midnight Mirauders - ATCQ
2. 93 ‘Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
3. 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan
4. Reachin (A New Refutation of Time & Space) - Digable Planets
5. Return of the Boom Bap - KRS-One

1992

1. Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde - The Pharcyde
2. Mecca & the Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
3. Don’t Sweat the Technique - Eric B & Rakim
4. Dead Serious - Das FX
5. Whut? Thee Album - Redman

1991

1. I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del tha Funkee Homosapien
2. Low End Theory - ATCQ
3. We Can’t Be Stopped - Geto Boys
4. The Rulers Back - Slick Rick
5. Organized Konfusion

1990

1. Let the Rhythm Hit Em - Eric B & Rakim
2. Peoples Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm - ATCQ
3. AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted - Ice Cube
4. Take a Look Around - Masta Ace

the 1980’s

1. Paid in Full - Eric B & Rakim
2. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
3. The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
4. Strictly Business - EPMD
5. It Takes a Nation to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

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