Off the top but I'll change my mind tomorrow, here's a good list of my current top 10 candidates, mostly unranked but the absolute tops near the top.

Denzel Curry - Melt
Lupe - Drill Music
JID - forever story
Elzhi - Zhigeist
rome streetz - kiss the ring
black thought - cheat codes
CZARFACE - Czarmageddon!
open mike eagle - tape deck with the autoreverse
Benny - Tana Talk 4
Deca - Smoking gun

And just to keep it fun, here's another 8 that are also in the running on any given day:
the YOD EPs (YOD Wave/Yod Stewart/Yodney Dangerfield/Yodfather)
big pooh - to dream in color
quelle chris - deathfame
moor mother - jazz codes
billy woods - aethiopes
billy woods - church
elucid - I told bessie
Defcee/Boathouse - For All Debts Public and Private

and 2 that are definitely not top 10 for me but highly regarded by others of similar taste and will probably make a lot of *other* top 10 lists, bringing the total # in this post to 20:
joey - 2000
gibbs - $oul $old $eparately

Should we go for 30?

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~