My 20 favorite rap albums of 2013
 

Presented in order, without comment:

1. Kanye West, Yeezus
2. Chance The Rapper, Acid Rap
3. Danny Brown, Old
4. A$AP Rocky, Long. Live. A$AP.
5. Pusha T, My Name Is My Name
6. Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels
7. Ka, The Night's Gambit
8. Ransom, The Proposal
9. Earl Sweatshirt, Doris
10. Prodigy and The Alchemist, Albert Einstein
11. Doley Bernays, Just in Case
    
12. Action Bronson and Party Supplies, Blue Chips 2
13. Drake, Nothing Was the Same
14. Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, Twelve Reasons To Die
15. Lloyd Banks, Failure's No Option
16. Ace Hood, Trials & Tribulations
17. Aceyalone, Leanin' On Slick
18. Vic Mensa, Innanetape
19. Illogic and Blockhead, Capture the Sun
20. Jay Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail

By all means, post your lists.

Mine for 2013 presented in order, without comment:

1. Canibus, The 2nd Coming.
2. Canibus, Lyrical Warfare.
3. Canibus, Flight Rtj2: The Layover (mixtape).
4. Canibus, The Musiquarium (mixtape).
5. HRSMN (ft Canibus), The 2nd HRSMN project.
6. Canibus, Lyrical Law (2013 mixtape version).
7. Canibus, Evidence of Infinity 2.
8. Canibus, Evidence of Infinity.

No order, mixtapes & albums-

1. Pusha T- My Name Is My Name
2. Danny Brown- Old
3. Vic Mensa- Innanetape
4. Flatbush Zombies- BetterOffDead
5. Audio Push- Come As You Are
6. Mac Miller- Watching Movies With The Sound Off
7. Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire- Kismet
8. YC The Cynic- GNK
9. The Underachievers- Indigoism/Lords of Flatbush
10. Dizzy Wright- The Golden Age
11. Joey Bada$$- Summer Knights
12. Isaiah Rashad- Welcome to the Game
13. GhostWridah- Flu Game
14. Gunplay- Cops & Robbers
15. Freddie Gibbs- ESGN
16. Choo Jackson- Beer Flavored Pizza
17. Kris Kasanova- 24k
18. Curren$y- New Jet City
19. Young Roddy- Good Sense 2
20. Self Provoked- Chalk Fades

i probably couldn't even name 20 rap albums that came out this year.

you included most of the ones i happened to download

ACID RAP probably at the top of my list.
$amhill - the preface
doris
blue chips 2
old was tight. it took a while to grow on me though.
Einstein also had some cuts. Prodigy shocked me with that tbh.

yeezus and MCHG deserve mentions cause they might have been the only 2013-released albums i really listened to in depth other than those mentioned. Yeezus was better though.

props on knowing bout the $amhill shit. that was dope. not sure if that was this year or last year tho. but definately worthy of mention


i slept heavily this year. i thought yeezus was terrible. but i still gotta check that pusha and other shit. still never heard a chance the rapper track.

i'm gonna check shit from these lists tho

i'm lovin this Acid Rap album as suggested by this thread. i feel foolish for just now discovering this. it's my type of shit for sure, needed something fresh lately. i was gonna peep everything but i havent been able to skip a track on this Chance dude. kinda hypnotic actually, so thanks

RA had one of the better albums of the year.

Still adjusting to his horrible voice (acid rap guy)

But thanks to this thread i grabbed the lloyd banks, prodigy, ghostface & danny brown

Oh an earl.....i dont much like him...but i want to....

Tried to get Mensa shit but couldnt....same with ka.....i dont think i like ka tho

Had most of the rest

Solid list


Ghostface is soooo fire.

But ace hood not on this list? Fuck ur life.

Chance the rapper is a saint

Im trying....i really am

On monday i will gve acod rap a full play thru with an honest ear. I really want to care.

u can do it Bags

just go in pretending like no one recommended it and u were trying a random miftape on DatPiff

anyone like domo genesis? i dont know how his actual albums are but he comes on pandora sometiems and i liked what ive heard

Yea domo used to be nicer than earl

i can't stand earl's album. the amount of features...blech. i wanted a whole album of earl verses. instead i got a bunch of random faggots i don't want to hear, a little Tyler, and a dash of Earl.

son i am dissapoint.

That domo and alchemist tape is fiiiiiiiire

There are like five guest appearances, and one of them is Vince Staples' ridiculously good verse on "Hive."

Also, @BagcakeBrah, I'm not even sure I've heard Ace Hood's album. I remember it coming out, but I think I was busy with work or something. I'll listen tonight or tomorrow or something.

The Domo Genesis-The Alchemist album, No Idols, came out in Summer 2012, but it was good.

You're an Earl apologist, Certain.

The album actually let me down a little as a whole, particularly since some of the best tracks are some of the oldest.

The guest appearances are not good for the most part. There are more than I remembered. Mac Miller sounds like if someone without talent tried to imitate Earl Sweatshirt on that track. Tyler, the Creator has never been able to hang with the best rappers in his group. Frank Ocean should stick to singing, though he is decent at rapping. Having Frank Ocean's cousin (SK Laflare) open the album was weird, though his verse was OK. Domo Genesis and Vince Staples handle their business on two guest spots each.

Your criticism is fair, though. My bigger one is the beats are kind of murky and don't allow any of the tracks to feel different.

But Earl Sweatshirt has my favorite style of anyone going right now, a few bad decisions on his first studio album notwithstanding.

Tyler's verse was dope.

Earl loses me sometimes. He's so good. But sometimes it's just...eh.

Did you listen to Wolf? That might have topped Eminem's new album for Album Trying To Sound Like The Marshall Mathers LP.