Pretty good year for hip-hop. There wasn't a clear, far and away #1, like there was last year. I'd also say that the difference in quality between #1 and like #16 isn't that big.

Top 25 albums:

1. Armand Hammer & Alchemist – Haram
2. Evidence – The Unlearning Vol. 1
3. Blu – The Color Blu(e)
4. Your Old Droog – Time
5. Westside Gunn – Hitler Loves Hermes 8/Side B (tie - because Side B is a product of the same sessions)
6. DJ Muggs & Flee Lord – Rammelzee
7. Boldy James & The Alchemist – Bo Jackson/Super Tecmo Bo (tie - for same reasons as #5)
8. Mach-Hommy – Pray For Haiti
9. Nas – Magic
10. Czarface & MF DOOM – Super What?
11. Tanya Morgan – Don & Von
12. Your Old Droog – Space Bar
13. Styles P & Havoc – Wreckage Manner
14. Guilty Simpson & Gensu Dean – Ego
15. Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim - YOD Fahim
16. Planet Asia & Evidence – Rule of Thirds
17. Bronze Nazareth & Roc Marciano – Ekphrasis
18. Solemn Bingham – South Sinner Street
19. L’Orange & Namir Blade – Imaginary Everything
20. Lute – Gold Mouf
21. Skyzoo – All the Pretty Things
22. Dillon & J57 – ’83 Kids
23. Hus Kingpin – The Firm
24. Peter Rosenberg – Real Late
25. Career Crooks – Never At Peace

And now, top 25 EPs:

1. Mach-Hommy – Balens Cho (Hot Candles)
2. The Alchemist – This Thing of Ours Pt. 1 & 2
3. Qwazarr & Batsauce - Stoned Giant
4. Raw Poetic – Big Tiny Planet
5. Tha God Fahim & Your Old Droog - The Wolf On Wall Street
6. Marv Won – Rabbits Can’t Shoot
7. Doppelgangaz – G Pack Vol. 3
8. Curren$y – Collection Agency
9. Crimapple - Sancocho
10. Curren$y & Harry Fraud – Regatta
11. Chong Wizard – Blessing Season
12. Hus Kingpin – Bolio: Reze Pelo Rio - Pray For Rio ‎
13. Hus Kingpin – Holiday Hus: XXXMAS
14. CZR MGA – Montana & Rice
15. Brother Ali – Brother Minutester Vol. 1
16. Tha God Fahim – Shot Clock King Vol. 1 & 2
17. Vince Staples
18. 2 Hungry Bros. & Homeboy Sandman – Senile Chef
19. Ransom - Se7en
20. Sonnyjim & Kev Brown - Joint Venture
21. Marv Won – Hagler
22. Hus Kingpin - Threesome 2: The Art of Sex
23. Benny the Butcher – Pyrex Picasso
24. Flashius Clayton -The Dust Diaries
25. Milano & Constantine - Eating But Still Hungry

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