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Hardcore Hip Hop
Critics' Highest Rated Hardcore Hip Hop Albums of All Time
Wu-Tang Clan
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
97
critic score
(7)
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
97
critic score
(6)
Nas
Illmatic
94
critic score
(6)
Run the Jewels
RTJ4
89
critic score
(35)
Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory
87
critic score
(27)
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
87
critic score
(33)
Tyler, The Creator
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
86
critic score
(24)
Raekwon
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
86
critic score
(21)
GZA
Liquid Swords
86
critic score
(6)
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 3
86
critic score
(37)
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Users' Highest Rated Hardcore Hip Hop Albums of 2023
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown
SCARING THE HOES
86
user score
(9,357)
YUNG LIXO
BONDA GOOD 4SS JOB
81
user score
(43)
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown
SCARING THE HOES: DLC PACK
79
user score
(2,627)
Ghais Guevara
Goyard Comin': Exordium
76
user score
(214)
DJ K
Panico no submundo
74
user score
(125)
DJ Rude One & RXKNephew
The ONEderful Nephew
73
user score
(29)
Kenny Mason
6
73
user score
(311)
funeral
gorepack
73
user score
(60)
Key Glock
Glockoma 2
72
user score
(482)
Lloyd Banks
The Course of the Inevitable 3: Pieces of My Pain
72
user score
(55)
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Recent Hardcore Hip Hop Albums
City Morgue
My Bloody America
38 Spesh & Conway The Machine
Speshal Machinery
YUNG LIXO
BONDA GOOD 4SS JOB
Ashnikko
WEEDKILLER
74
critic score
(8)
DJ Muggs
Soul Assassins 3
73
critic score
(1)
Blackout
Lost in the Underground Pt. 1
Terror Reid
HOT VODKA 2
KIDHYPNO
HYPNO
funeral
gorepack
scarlxrd
Made In Hell
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Critics' Top Hardcore Hip Hop Artists
Run the Jewels
Vince Staples
Danny Brown
Nas
Death Grips
Wu-Tang Clan
Ghostface Killah
Tyler, The Creator
Busta Rhymes
DMX
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165
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166
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183
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152
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76
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