HipHopDX's 20 Best Rap Albums of 2016

HipHopDX compiles the 20 best Hip Hop & Rap Albums of 2016 including Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West and The Game.

Published: January 01, 2017 00:43 Source

# 1

Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper

Album • May 27 / 2016 Pop Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 2

We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest

Album • Nov 11 / 2016 Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Jazz Rap

# 3

The Life Of Pablo by Kanye West

Album • Jun 10 / 2016 Pop Rap Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 4

99.9% by KAYTRANADA

Album • May 06 / 2016 Alternative R&B Funky House

# 5

Layers by Royce Da 5'9"

Album • Apr 15 / 2016 Hardcore Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 6

Blank Face LP by ScHoolboy Q

Album • Jul 08 / 2016 Gangsta Rap West Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 7

Do What Thou Wilt. by Ab-Soul

Album • Dec 09 / 2016 West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 8

Still Brazy (Deluxe) by YG

Album • Jun 14 / 2016

# 9

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight by Travis Scott

Album • Sep 02 / 2016 Trap Southern Hip Hop Pop Rap

# 10

1992 by The Game

Album • Oct 14 / 2016 Gangsta Rap West Coast Hip Hop

# 12

The Sun's Tirade by Isaiah Rashad

Album • Sep 02 / 2016 Southern Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop Jazz Rap

# 13

and the Anonymous Nobody... by De La Soul

Album • Aug 26 / 2016 East Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 14

Honor Killed the Samurai by KA

Album • Aug 13 / 2016 East Coast Hip Hop Drumless Abstract Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 16

The Healing Component by Mick Jenkins

Album • Sep 23 / 2016 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 17

untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar

Album • Mar 04 / 2016 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop

# 18

Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1: Friends by A$AP Mob

Album • Oct 31 / 2016 Trap East Coast Hip Hop

# 19

Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown

Album • Sep 27 / 2016 Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 20

4 Your Eyez Only by J. Cole

Album • Dec 09 / 2016 Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop