Spirit World Field Guide is Aesop Rock’s eighth full-length solo album and his third one released on Rhymesayers, following the great Skelethon (2012) and The Impossible Kid (2016), one of the best albums released that year. Like him or not, there’s no denying he has a couple of classic projects on his name – especially his third album and Definite Jux debut Labor Days (2001) is a monumental album, followed by the equally excellent Bazooka Tooth (2003) and None Shall Pass (2007).Īfter the folding of Def Jux, Aesop Rock signed with Rhymesayers Entertainment. Owing to the lyrical and sonic intricacies in his music, Aesop Rock has always been a hate-him or love-him kind of artist. Throw in Killer Mike and El-P’s respective solo work and they’re all-timers. Four phenomenal albums in a row, it’s undeniable. RTJ4 is a confirmation – at this point, we can start calling Run The Jewels one of the best duos in Hip Hop history. El-P’s top-notch production is like a perfect evolution of the famed Bomb Squad sound and the politically-charged lyrical content is intelligent, hard-hitting and thought-provoking in the best Public Enemy tradition. There can be no higher praise than comparing an album to Public Enemy’s monumental 1988 classic It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, but in this case, the comparison is totally justified. Killer Mike and El-P sound as powerful and as hungry as ever before, and with this album, they prove that Hip Hop can still be entertaining as well as meaningful. RTJ4 is on par with its predecessors though. Given their track record with the first three RTJ albums it was hard to imagine Killer Mike and El-P disappointing – but even equalling the level of quality of especially RTJ2 and RTJ3 was ever going to be a tall order. RTJ4 is a near-perfect presentation of fresh, exciting, banging beats and politically potent lyrics. This is an album the world needs right now. Run The Jewels (2013), Run The Jewels 2 (2014), and Run The Jewels 3 (2016) all are among the best Hip Hop albums of the 2010s, three important albums for Hip Hop as a genre. Because of its predecessors, Run The Jewels 4 was one of the most-anticipated albums of the year – and it delivered on all fronts.Īs El-P promised: RTJ4 is a punch in the face – and in a good way. The success of the tour eventually led to the decision to form Run The Jewels. Music and Cancer 4 Cure were released within weeks of each other, the two decided to tour together. Music – one of our favorite albums of 2012 – which was soon followed by Killer Mike’s appearance on the track “Tougher Colder Killer” from El-P’s Cancer 4 Cure. In 2012 El-P produced Killer Mike’s album, R.A.P. Let’s get into it, check out what we think are the best Hip Hop albums of 2020.Īlso check: Greatest Hip Hop Albums 1980 – 2020 & Top 150 Hip Hop Albums Of The 2010sĪnd: Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2020 – The Honorable Mentions & The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2021 But having said that, there are lots of dope EP’s out there, so we will not completely ignore them – scroll all the way down for a section with some of the best EP’s released in 2020, as well as a listing of 2020’s best instrumental and best Hip Hop adjacent projects. Creating an LP is an art in itself, releasing a couple of songs as an EP or dropping a 20-minute ‘album’ with a bunch of 1 and 2-minute songs is not enough to make it on our best albums list. Some artists bill barely 30-minute-long projects as albums – HHGA sees projects that clock in at under 30 minutes as EP’s however, and we do not rank them on our album (= LP) list. Not included here are instrumental albums, compilations, and EP’s. Limiting this list to 60 titles does a disservice to lots of great albums that had to be relegated to the honorable mentions section (which admittedly is ridiculously long, but all the albums there are worth checking out). Hip Hop has never been more diverse than as it is today, and this list will reflect that diversity. Sure, there’s still plenty of terrible rap music out there, but it’s becoming easier and easier to ignore the output of mumblers and trappers because of the breadth and depth in quality Hip Hop that’s on offer these days – in the mainstream as well as in the underground. 2020 was a bad, bad year in a lot of ways, but it was a GREAT year for Hip Hop. For this The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2020 list we have listened to hundreds of projects – well over 500 to be more precise.
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