Pitchfork's Top 20 Rap Albums of 2016

December 5, 2016

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The ‘best of 2016’ lists keep coming. After having rolled out their best music videos list, Pitchfork now published The Top 20 Rap Albums of 2016. We’ll probably be seeing a bunch of these on their main top albums list too, but in the meantime check out their list, in alphabetical order, below. You can read their commentary here.

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Pitchfork’s Top 20 Rap Albums of 2016
21 Savage / Metro Boomin – Savage Mode
Kodak Black – Lil B.I.G. Pac
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
Kevin Gates- Islah
Ka- Honor Killed the Samurai
Kamaiyah – A Good Night in the Ghetto
Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
Noname – Telefone
Joey Purp – iiiDrops
Pusha T – Darkest Before Dawn
Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife 2
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
Isaiah Rashad – The Sun’s Tirade
Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
Skepta – Konnichiwa
Vince Staples – Prima Donna
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
YG – Still Brazy
Young Thug – No My Name is JEFFERY