Creating an LP is an art in itself, releasing a couple of songs as an EP or dropping a 20-minute ‘album’ with a bunch of 1 and 2-minute songs is not enough to make it on our best albums list. Some artists bill barely 30-minute-long projects as albums – HHGA sees projects that clock in at under 30 minutes as EP’s however, and we do not rank them on our album (= LP) list.
Not included here are instrumental albums, compilations, and EP’s. Limiting this list to 60 titles does a disservice to lots of great albums that had to be relegated to the honorable mentions section (which admittedly is ridiculously long, but all the albums there are worth checking out). Hip Hop has never been more diverse than as it is today, and this list will reflect that diversity. Sure, there’s still plenty of terrible rap music out there, but it’s becoming easier and easier to ignore the output of mumblers and trappers because of the breadth and depth in quality Hip Hop that’s on offer these days – in the mainstream as well as in the underground. 2020 was a bad, bad year in a lot of ways, but it was a GREAT year for Hip Hop. For this The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2020 list we have listened to hundreds of projects – well over 500 to be more precise.
