Best albums of 2021

a few of these i want to revisit before the end of the year but i'm sure this will end up being 90% accurate unless a bunch of unannounced albums drop in the next couple weeks. overall maybe not the best year for hip hop in recent memory but still definitely one that stands out with a few specific things that set it apart for me. huge year for wrecking crew and bruiser brigade. defcee released 4 dope albums/eps and is finally getting some much deserved recognition especially since linking up with backwoodz and putting out the album with messiah musik... also navy blue produced 4 or 5 albums and is becoming one of my favorite producers right now. i'm hoping there will be at least one more great album released by the end of this year though that could make the top 10, was hoping it'd be earl but it looks like that isn't dropping until january. 

I really don't listen to enough new hip hop to meaningfully contribute. I will say I liked the Rome Streetz/Futurewave album, I must have listened to Sage & Gunsmoke 50 times already, the Ransom verse is killer and the beat is retarded. There were two Bronze Nazareth albums I liked a fair amount, one with Leaf Dog and another with Recognize Ali. Hus Kingpin- Portishus was dope. The Rome Streetz/Ransom album was cool, I just listened to the new Ty Farris, liked it a lot on the first listen but listened today and it wasn't as good. Oh that Evidence album was dope. I dunno I think that is it, hopefully people list some dope s**t I can check out.

I listened to space bar, side a of Hermes 8 and a few others. That side a of hwh 8 was tremendous.

Yes

Hearing Jay's bars on that Jay Electronica album, it's clear as day how much Mach's style has been influencing his new s**t.

It's tight btw Boldy James & The Alchemist and Apollo Brown & Stalley in my opinion...

Not an excuse dude; I think i'm older lol:)

Ok fair enough, but I'm older lol and music keeps me sane with all this bulls**t around us...

honestly i think i got dad brain to. first off, these years blur together like a mf'r. secondly, i don't get releases as quick and as often as i used to and when i do these guys don't end up dropping the physical product til the next year (see kings disease II) so which year do i count it in?

point i'm gettin at is its hard for me to make this list because i can't keep track of what dropped this year, i guess i'll try and do my best to inventory what cds, tapes and lp's i got this year that weren't originally released digitally last year and then look at my bandcamp collection for any other releases that i got on there that i have yet to recieve or purchase a physical copy of yet this year....

Boldy is talented enough but alch needs to work with better artists.

What about the Apathy album Tippi? Did you forget about it or did you not enjoy it? For me it’s an obvious choice on that list. Peace!

Peeped "Garbagology" the tracks Difficult and Wolf Piss are my favorite joints off the album. It was decent overall. But that dragging out words wen u say them thing aes did on this album is dated as f**k. Joe budden used to do that sometimes like 15 yrs ago.

So Haram was not for me. The beats on ther own woulda been a trip and a half, really drugged out. That said the lyrics were too drugged out, too much random thought mumbly rap. Not for me at all. I remember liking some early armand hammer stuff to. This was almost unlistenable for me. Even high this might have been a chore.

This was the first AH album I listened to front to back and thought the same thing. Production was perfect but I couldn't get with whatever the f**k they were rapping about. The only track I ended up going back to was the one with Earl.