The Alchemist

Also nominated this year: Fiona Apple, Fontaines DC, Bonny Light Horseman, The Strokes, Brittany Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Sturgill Simpson, Haim, Tame Impala, Laura Marling and more.

Listen to new songs by Portrayal of Guilt, Palm Reader, Osees, Flohio, Skatune Network (PUP cover), The Lounge Society, and more.

Listen to new songs by Kendrick Lamar/Busta Rhymes, Freddie Gibbs, Nyck Caution/Joey Baada$$, MAVI, JID, Common/Black Thought, De La Soul, OutKast, Megan Thee Stallion, and more...

Listen to new songs by Jesu, World Be Free, The Alchemist/Action Bronson, Edith Frost, JID, Dave Hause/Bartees Strange, These New Puritans, Angelo De Augustine/Sufjan, Live Skull, and more...

The album also features Freddie Gibbs, DeJ Loaf, Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Havoc, Lloyd Banks, The Alchemist, and more...

Three of this year's best rap albums have come from artists who make dusty, psychedelic, vintage-sounding rap, and who have turned this sound from a niche into a movement.

New tracks from Boldy James & The Alchemist, Moor Mother & billy woods, Black Thought, Liv.e, Standing on the Corner, Kid Cudi/Eminem, YG, Benny the Butcher, and more...

Listen to new songs by Bully, Moor Mother & billy woods, Boldy James/Cool Kids, Neurosis' Steve Von Till, Kath Bloom, Travis, Wax Chattels, Mattiel (Beastie Boys cover), Young Knives, !!!, Silversun Pickups, and more.

Today's picks for live videos to watch while you're home and every show is cancelled include Kendrick Lamar, Moses Sumney, LCD Soundsystem, Griselda, and The Monks.

Here are the best rap albums of May, including Freddie Gibbs/Alchemist, Ka, Preservation, Medhane, and more...