Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020

Rip no mask

still a few more albums dropping this year that could end up near the top but this is probably close to how my list would look a month from now. great year for hip hop in my opinion

On top of what's already been mentioned I'd throw in

Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo
Grafh - Oracle 3
Westside Gunn - Pray For Paris
Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Da$h - Walk The Plank

da buze bruvaz "adebesi hat recut"
armand hammer "shrines"
vic spencer "psyhological cheat sheet"
raze "regal"
elzhi "seven times down eight times up"
preservation "eastern medicine, western illness"
ka "descendants of cain"
roc marciano "mt. marci"
shrapknel "s/t"
stove god cooks "‎reasonable drought"
m.a.v. & rob gates "the dark side of nature"
buckwild ‎"abandoned beats"

those were the albums I enjoyed most this year ... vic spencer's new one sounds promising too, and I'm looking forward to the new raze joint ... another dope album that finally saw an official release after 25 years is science of sound's "kaleidoscope phonetics"...

No good album has came out in the last 5 years but keep trying dweebs

Sauce monk 3

f**k what you heard I loved Chris Rock on this album. The way he comes through after all that new world order s**t is my favorite part of the album.

The beat is ill and he goes “this might be - this might BE the last day. And LUCKY YOU. On your last day. You gone hear the new Busta Rhymes album. LUCKY b***h.”

That s**t is dooooope. Chris Rick killed this s**t too.

RTJ4 was a letdown tho. I hold their first 3 albums in high regards. I don’t exactly know what my problem is with the 4th album but I wasn’t feeling it 100 like the other 3 albums. A lot of beats were too stripped down for me. Plus at the time riots were going on everywhere and it felt like some almost wannabe revolution s**t. Leave that reporting live from the streets s**t to chuck and flav or NWA.

Plus it seems like it got jocked by the media before anyone even head the s**t. Like “yeah the first 3 were dope just give it a free pass cuz everyone likes it” bulls**t. I don’t know. There was some heat on there absolutely, but the whole s**t didn’t flow like the other 3.

Again, to me the first 3 albums are masterpieces.

WOW, not one person(unless i overlooked it) mentioned Billy Danze - The listening session. That's criminal lol. Top 5 album hands down. Same with Benny.

Benny the butcher - Buurden of proof
Billy Danze - The listening session
The lox - Living off Xperience
Royce da 5'9 - Allegory
Busta rhymes - Extinction level 2
Westside Gunn- Pray for Paris.
Black soprano Family - The respected Sopranos
Conway - From king to a god
Stove God - Reasonable Drought
Elzhi -Seven times down eight times up

Trust me, top five album of the year. Premo has a track that I've been playing on repeat since this dropped. Gotham with Method man is nice too. The whole album.

I haven't heard very many but my 3 favorites so far.

Planet Asia and 38 Spesh - Trust the Chain
Westside Gunn - Who Made The Sunshine
Gibbs/Alc -Alfredo

That Royce sounds like some pseudo conscious new woke s**t , he was never a concious rapper just riding this new woke wave , I’ve been concious for as long as I can remember and this new wave is funny , they won’t even go back to study history books but suck off memes all day, he even gives shouts out to DL hugely and David banner who post woke memes but won’t give a shout out to dead black scholars 🤔🤔🤔

U couldn't pay me to listen to Royce after the 2nd or 3rd bar exam. Dudes albums are always dogs**t. And I love royce. He just can't make a good album

i think i have 6-7 2020 albums sitting on my floor i havent peeped but i did listen to lulu and the boldy and alc. they were decent. boldy is a good rapper i just dont like his druggy delivery its annoying. on the other side of slow flow, i feel conway has def perfected it. he makes alot of the same s**t but hes dope. id still rank griselda as they debuted, gunn, conway then benny.