What are your Top 10 albums of 2016 thus far?

[Lefty_]

Haven't heard 10 albums from this year, in this year..... :/

 

[The Recipe]

Haven't heard 10 albums from this year, in this year..... :/

Only heard 1 album this year.

 

[_Goldie_]

Yea 2016 was a weak year in hiphop , album wise.

Are we counting mixtapes?

 

[Lou Cypher]

In No Order specifically.

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You for Your Service

Anderson.Paak - Malibu (album of the year contender)

NxWorries (Anderson.Paak and Knxledge) - Yes Lawd! (Album of the year contender)

Common - Black America Again

Atmosphere - Fishing Blues

Elzhi - Lead Poisoning (Album of the year Contender)

Royce Da 5'9" - Layers

Oddisee - Alawasta EP

Masta Ace - The Falling Season

Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid

 

[TheGOAT]

All albums or just rap?

 

[CeLLaR-DooR]

Schoolboy dropped the album I've listened to most this year.

 

[Beta]

Shoulda just put top 3

 

[just.might.b.ok]

No particular order:

Rage & The Machine, Layers, We got it from here... thank you for your service, untitled unmastered, Blank Face, 3001: A Laced Odyssey, The Impossible Kid, Still Brazy, The Sun's Tirade, A Fistful of Peril.

Honorable mentions: The Falling Season, Kairi Chanel, J Dilla's The Diary, The Life of Pablo.

Still gotta listen to the Blu/Nottz shit and the A$AP Mob.

Great year overall, a lot of dope projects.

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

Yea 2016 was a weak year in hiphop , album wise.

Are we counting mixtapes?

Initially I was thinking albums only. I know 2016 has been a shit year for hip hop, that's partially the inspiration for this thread. My list probably won't even crack 10. Add mixtapes if you want.

All albums or just rap?

Just rap. Anything else would be should be an honorable mention.

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

In no particular order:

1. ATCQ - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

2. T.I. - Us or Else

3. Common - Black America Again

4. Jeezy - Trap or Die 3

5. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

6. De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody

7. Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

8. Travi$ Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight... (whatever the fuck that even means)

9. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

10. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (smfh)

 

[Lou Cypher]

Damn i still gotta check out Isaiah, Schoolboy, Budden, Blu/Nottz, and a few others. Glad i checked this thread out got a lot of downloading for this weekend.

 

[Mr.LV]

Haven't heard 10 albums from this year, in this year..... :/

Same here I haven't been listening to Rap music lately,been listening to more 80's music mostly R&B

 

[Lou Cypher]

In no particular order:

1. ATCQ - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

2. T.I. - Us or Else

3. Common - Black America Again

4. Jeezy - Trap or Die 3

5. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP

6. De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody

7. Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

8. Travi$ Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight... (whatever the fuck that even means)

9. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

10. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (smfh)

Fuck i totally forgot De La Soul. They dropped a good ass album this year.

 

[_Goldie_]

Yea 2016 was a weak year in hiphop , album wise.

Are we counting mixtapes?

Initially I was thinking albums only. I know 2016 has been a shit year for hip hop, that's partially the inspiration for this thread. My list probably won't even crack 10. Add mixtapes if you want.

All albums or just rap?

Just rap. Anything else would be should be an honorable mention.

If we're counting mixtapes

1. Kairi Chanel

Then the rest. Rage and The Machine , Purple Reign and Layers is in there too.

I'll make a full list later.

 

[just.might.b.ok]

@_Goldie_ you dont fuck with Collegrove?

 

[_Goldie_]

@_Goldie_ you dont fuck with Collegrove?

lol it was aight, not top 10 tho.

 

[achewon87]

No order, might change by the time we do the official thread...

ATCQ - We Got It From Here...

Dave East - Kairi Channel

Elzhi - Lead Poison

Apollo Brown & Skyzoo - The Easy Truth

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

The Game - 1992

YG - Still Brazy

Common - Black America Again

Lando Chill - For Mark, Your Son

Kaytranada - 99.9%

And a bonus album, no rapping and not much singing, mostly instrumentals...

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portrait

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

No order, might change by the time we do the official thread...

ATCQ - We Got It From Here...

Dave East - Kairi Channel

Elzhi - Lead Poison

Apollo Brown & Skyzoo - The Easy Truth

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

The Game - 1992

YG - Still Brazy

Common - Black America Again

Lando Chill - For Mark, Your Son

Kaytranada - 99.9%

And a bonus album, no rapping and not much singing, mostly instrumentals...

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portrait

Yo, why am I just hearing about this!?

 

[Ibex]

Drake - Views from the 6

Isaiah Rashad- The Sun's Tirade

Curren$y - Stoned On Ocean

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

Future- EVOL

Lil Uzi Vert - The Perfect Luv Tape

Schoolboy Q - Blank Face

Travis Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight

Gucci Mane - Woptober

Phonte & Eric Roberson - Tigallerro

 

[TheGOAT]

1. Tribe

2. Birth of a Nation Soundtrack

3. Chance

4. Pablo

5. Mac Miller

6. Rittz

7. Isaiah Rashad

8. Common

All other rap albums i listened to were forgettable and or already forgotten

Honorable mentions to...

-Alicia Keys

-Anderson Paak (solo)

-Anderson Paak Knowledge collab

-BJ Chicago Kid

-Michael Kiwanuka

Looking forward to see what this Childish Gambino album gonna be like.

If its anything like 1st 2 singles could be a contender for AOTY