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48. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
May 30, 2008
Critic Score
81
4 reviews
On The Mixtape About Nothing, Wale emerges fully-formed as a rapper and as a thinker, a lightning-witted, irreverent guy blessed with both an infectious swagger and a sound moral compass.
40. Joey Bada$$ - 1999
June 12, 2012
Critic Score
75
5 reviews
Joey Bada$$, however, is doing his best to further the period's legacy of boom-bap production as an authenticator and advanced-level lyricism as a meal ticket.
20. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
February 12, 2015
Critic Score
76
29 reviews
On If You’re Reading This, all of this chest beating is delivered over the most darkly hypnotic beats Drake’s graced since So Far Gone.
19. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
June 26, 2013
Critic Score
84
29 reviews
It's just a distilled take on everything that made last year's albums such an event, with all the chrome ripped off and upholstery pulled out so it'll run faster, louder, nastier.
12. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
May 13, 2016
Critic Score
86
27 reviews
Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book is one of the strongest rap albums released this year, an uplifting mix of spiritual and grounded that even an atheist can catch the Spirit to.
9. A$AP Rocky - Live. Love. A$AP
October 31, 2011
Critic Score
79
14 reviews
If anything LIVELOVEA$AP is a triumph of immaculate taste.
4. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
April 30, 2013
Critic Score
82
17 reviews
Chance’s Acid Rap is a triumph of meditative moments, open-ended quests, and brass flares. The hooks are more jabs than uppercuts. None will probably bang in a club, but most will make sense live, as chanted back by a thousand fans.
3. Danny Brown - XXX
August 15, 2011
Critic Score
84
8 reviews
The audacious Detroit rapper with a strangled voice and a penchant for depravity transforms his jagged edges into a compelling and immersive universe. Brown's voice is uniquely suited to conveying wild-eyed, loose-cannon insanity, and the rising note of panic in it makes every mention of snorting crushed Adderall hurt.
2. Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2
December 31, 2005
Critic Score
88
1 review
Volume 2 delivers on the promise of "Zen". In alternating mismanaged heaters ("So Seductive", the murderous "Kobra"), hugely successful singles ("1 Thing", "Hate It or Love It"), and timeless thrillers ("Elevators", "Daytona 500"), the pacing never slows.
1. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
April 13, 2007
Critic Score
85
3 reviews
Love him or hate him, the divisive NOLA rapper's latest mixtape-- a sprawling 29-track, 100-plus minute behemoth-- ups the ante of last year's DJ Drama-produced Dedication 2 in every way possible.
Original Source: http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9908-the-50-best-rap-mixtapes-of-the-millennium/
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