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
78
24 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
24 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
85
23 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
78
12 reviews
If anything LIVELOVEA$AP is a triumph of immaculate taste.
4. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
April 30, 2013
Critic Score
81
15 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.
Original Source: http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9908-the-50-best-rap-mixtapes-of-the-millennium/
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