HipHopDX's Top 25 Albums of 2012

From Kendrick Lamar to Roc Marciano, Big Boi to Rapsody, Lupe Fiasco to ScHoolboy Q, HipHopDX presents our annual list of must-haves from the closing year.

Published: December 26, 2012 09:35 Source

# 1
Album • May 11 / 2012 Conscious Hip Hop West Coast Hip Hop
# 2
Album • Jul 10 / 2012 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop
# 3
Album • May 01 / 2012 Boom Bap Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop
# 4
Album • Mar 26 / 2012 Rap Rock Southern Hip Hop
# 5
Album • Jan 01 / 2012 Pop Rap Southern Hip Hop
# 6
Album • Jan 01 / 2012 Southern Hip Hop Dirty South Conscious Hip Hop
# 7
Album • May 22 / 2012
# 8
Album • Nov 27 / 2012 East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop
# 9
Album • Jan 24 / 2012 West Coast Hip Hop Boom Bap Hardcore Hip Hop
# 10
Album • Sep 18 / 2012 East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop
# 11
Album • Jan 01 / 2012 West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
# 12
Album • May 15 / 2012 Southern Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop Political Hip Hop
# 13
Album • Sep 25 / 2012
# 14
Album • Oct 09 / 2012 Pop Rap Conscious Hip Hop
# 15
Album • Oct 30 / 2012 Hip Hop
# 16
Album • Nov 13 / 2012 Boom Bap Hip Hop Chipmunk Soul
# 17
Album • Jul 17 / 2012 East Coast Hip Hop
# 18
Album • Aug 28 / 2012 Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop
# 19
Album • Dec 25 / 2020 East Coast Hip Hop Gangsta Rap Drumless
# 20
Album • Jan 14 / 2012 West Coast Hip Hop
# 21
Album • Oct 30 / 2012 East Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop
# 22
Album • Oct 02 / 2012 East Coast Hip Hop
# 23
Album • Jan 01 / 2012 Pop Rap
# 24
Album • Dec 18 / 2012 Southern Hip Hop Trap
# 25
Album • Jul 17 / 2012 West Coast Hip Hop Instrumental Hip Hop Drumless