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The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020

Decade
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2020s
2020
2021

1.

Run the Jewels - RTJ4
June 3, 2020
Critic Score
90
33 reviews
Amazon
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Spotify

2.

Jadakiss - Ignatius
March 6, 2020
Critic Score
85
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
May 29, 2020
Critic Score
85
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

4.

J Hus - Big Conspiracy
January 24, 2020
Critic Score
84
10 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed
June 19, 2020
Critic Score
82
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

6.

Mac Miller - Circles
January 17, 2020
Critic Score
82
16 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

7.

Pa Salieu - Send Them to Coventry
November 13, 2020
Critic Score
82
7 reviews
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iTunes
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Spotify

8.

Headie One - EDNA
October 9, 2020
Critic Score
82
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

9.

Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2
August 7, 2020
Critic Score
81
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

10.

Riz Ahmed - The Long Goodbye
March 6, 2020
Critic Score
81
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

11.

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED
February 7, 2020
Critic Score
81
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

12.

Megan Thee Stallion - Good News
November 20, 2020
Critic Score
81
18 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Skepta, Chip & Young Adz - Insomnia
March 27, 2020
Critic Score
80
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Conway the Machine - From King To A GOD
September 11, 2020
Critic Score
80
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
October 23, 2020
Critic Score
80
18 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma and Divorce
October 16, 2020
Critic Score
80
8 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

Jessie Reyez - Before Love Came To Kill Us
March 27, 2020
Critic Score
79
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Polo G - The GOAT
May 15, 2020
Critic Score
79
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

Benny The Butcher - Burden of Proof
October 16, 2020
Critic Score
78
7 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

20.

21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Savage Mode II
October 2, 2020
Critic Score
78
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

21.

Flohio - No Panic No Pain
November 27, 2020
Critic Score
78
9 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

22.

Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
March 13, 2020
Critic Score
78
11 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Junglepussy - Jp4
October 23, 2020
Critic Score
77
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
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Spotify

24.

Mick Jenkins - The Circus
January 10, 2020
Critic Score
77
5 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
April 17, 2020
Critic Score
77
6 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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