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East Coast Hip Hop
Critics' Highest Rated East Coast Hip Hop Albums of All Time
Wu-Tang Clan
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
97
critic score
(6)
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
96
critic score
(5)
JAY-Z
Reasonable Doubt
96
critic score
(5)
Public Enemy
Fear of a Black Planet
94
critic score
(5)
Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique
94
critic score
(5)
Nas
Illmatic
94
critic score
(6)
De La Soul
3 Feet High and Rising
94
critic score
(6)
Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
93
critic score
(12)
Mobb Deep
The Infamous
92
critic score
(6)
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
91
critic score
(5)
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Users' Highest Rated East Coast Hip Hop Albums of 2023
billy Woods & Kenny Segal
Maps
82
user score
(1,710)
McKinley Dixon
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
81
user score
(396)
El Michels Affair & Black Thought
Glorious Game
77
user score
(717)
Ghais Guevara
Goyard Comin': Exordium
77
user score
(104)
Navy Blue
Ways of Knowing
75
user score
(585)
quinn
delinquent
74
user score
(52)
Nappy Nina
Mourning Due
74
user score
(26)
Lloyd Banks
The Course of the Inevitable 3: Pieces of My Pain
72
user score
(42)
Skyzoo & The Other Guys
The Mind Of A Saint
72
user score
(225)
quinn
sf44
71
user score
(112)
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Recent East Coast Hip Hop Albums
McKinley Dixon
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
80
critic score
(6)
Ghais Guevara
Goyard Comin': Exordium
Fivio Foreign
Without Warning
CJ Fly
Healing From Our Wounds
quinn
interstate 185
Estee Nack
Nacksaw Jim Duggan
Heem B$F
From The Cradle To The Game
67
critic score
(1)
billy Woods & Kenny Segal
Maps
86
critic score
(12)
Conway the Machine
WON'T HE DO IT
72
critic score
(3)
Armani White
ROAD TO CASABLANCO.
72
critic score
(1)
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Critics' Top East Coast Hip Hop Artists
Beastie Boys
A Tribe Called Quest
Raekwon
The Roots
Talib Kweli
Ghostface Killah
Aesop Rock
JAY-Z
Nas
De La Soul
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13
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10
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22
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24
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18
1991
27
1992
18
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28
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37
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23
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27
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33
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38
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45
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33
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30
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26
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35
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33
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26
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24
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20
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16
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25
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17
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18
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27
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15
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28
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44
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45
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69
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91
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92
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123
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133
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155
2023
56
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