My 20 favorite rap albums of 2013

[Certain]

Presented in order, without comment:


Kanye West, Yeezus
Chance The Rapper, Acid Rap
Danny Brown, Old
A$AP Rocky, Long. Live. A$AP.
Pusha T, My Name Is My Name
Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels
Ka, The Night's Gambit
Ransom, The Proposal
Earl Sweatshirt, Doris
Prodigy and The Alchemist, Albert Einstein
Doley Bernays, Just in Case

Action Bronson and Party Supplies, Blue Chips 2
Drake, Nothing Was the Same
Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, Twelve Reasons To Die
Lloyd Banks, Failure's No Option
Ace Hood, Trials & Tribulations
Aceyalone, Leanin' On Slick
Vic Mensa, Innanetape
Illogic and Blockhead, Capture the Sun
Jay Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail

By all means, post your lists.

[zygote]

Mine for 2013 presented in order, without comment:

1. Canibus, The 2nd Coming.
2. Canibus, Lyrical Warfare.
3. Canibus, Flight Rtj2: The Layover (mixtape).
4. Canibus, The Musiquarium (mixtape).
5. HRSMN (ft Canibus), The 2nd HRSMN project.
6. Canibus, Lyrical Law (2013 mixtape version).
7. Canibus, Evidence of Infinity 2.
8. Canibus, Evidence of Infinity.

[MMLRLK]

No order, mixtapes & albums-


Pusha T- My Name Is My Name
Danny Brown- Old
Vic Mensa- Innanetape
Flatbush Zombies- BetterOffDead
Audio Push- Come As You Are
Mac Miller- Watching Movies With The Sound Off
Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire- Kismet
YC The Cynic- GNK
The Underachievers- Indigoism/Lords of Flatbush
Dizzy Wright- The Golden Age
Joey Bada$$- Summer Knights
Isaiah Rashad- Welcome to the Game
GhostWridah- Flu Game
Gunplay- Cops & Robbers
Freddie Gibbs- ESGN
Choo Jackson- Beer Flavored Pizza
Kris Kasanova- 24k
Curren$y- New Jet City
Young Roddy- Good Sense 2
Self Provoked- Chalk Fades

[dead man]

i probably couldn't even name 20 rap albums that came out this year.

you included most of the ones i happened to download

ACID RAP probably at the top of my list.
$amhill - the preface
doris
blue chips 2
old was tight. it took a while to grow on me though.
Einstein also had some cuts. Prodigy shocked me with that tbh.

yeezus and MCHG deserve mentions cause they might have been the only 2013-released albums i really listened to in depth other than those mentioned. Yeezus was better though.

[uh-oh]

props on knowing bout the $amhill shit. that was dope. not sure if that was this year or last year tho. but definately worthy of mention


i slept heavily this year. i thought yeezus was terrible. but i still gotta check that pusha and other shit. still never heard a chance the rapper track.

i'm gonna check shit from these lists tho

[Bodey]

i'm lovin this Acid Rap album as suggested by this thread. i feel foolish for just now discovering this. it's my type of shit for sure, needed something fresh lately. i was gonna peep everything but i havent been able to skip a track on this Chance dude. kinda hypnotic actually, so thanks

[Joe Metts]

RA had one of the better albums of the year.

[Ghost1]

Still adjusting to his horrible voice (acid rap guy)

But thanks to this thread i grabbed the lloyd banks, prodigy, ghostface & danny brown

Oh an earl.....i dont much like him...but i want to....

Tried to get Mensa shit but couldnt....same with ka.....i dont think i like ka tho

Had most of the rest

Solid list


Ghostface is soooo fire.

But ace hood not on this list? Fuck ur life.

[Split]

Chance the rapper is a saint

[Ghost1]

Im trying....i really am

On monday i will gve acod rap a full play thru with an honest ear. I really want to care.

[Split]

u can do it Bags

just go in pretending like no one recommended it and u were trying a random miftape on DatPiff

[Bodey]

anyone like domo genesis? i dont know how his actual albums are but he comes on pandora sometiems and i liked what ive heard

[Split]

Yea domo used to be nicer than earl

[PancakeBrah]

i can't stand earl's album. the amount of features...blech. i wanted a whole album of earl verses. instead i got a bunch of random faggots i don't want to hear, a little Tyler, and a dash of Earl.

son i am dissapoint.

[Ghost1]

That domo and alchemist tape is fiiiiiiiire

[Certain]

i can't stand earl's album. the amount of features...blech. i wanted a whole album of earl verses. instead i got a bunch of random faggots i don't want to hear, a little Tyler, and a dash of Earl.

son i am dissapoint.

There are like five guest appearances, and one of them is Vince Staples' ridiculously good verse on "Hive."

Also, BagcakeBrah, I'm not even sure I've heard Ace Hood's album. I remember it coming out, but I think I was busy with work or something. I'll listen tonight or tomorrow or something.

The Domo Genesis-The Alchemist album, No Idols, came out in Summer 2012, but it was good.

[PancakeBrah]

You're an Earl apologist, Certain.

[Certain]

The album actually let me down a little as a whole, particularly since some of the best tracks are some of the oldest.

The guest appearances are not good for the most part. There are more than I remembered. Mac Miller sounds like if someone without talent tried to imitate Earl Sweatshirt on that track. Tyler, the Creator has never been able to hang with the best rappers in his group. Frank Ocean should stick to singing, though he is decent at rapping. Having Frank Ocean's cousin (SK Laflare) open the album was weird, though his verse was OK. Domo Genesis and Vince Staples handle their business on two guest spots each.

Your criticism is fair, though. My bigger one is the beats are kind of murky and don't allow any of the tracks to feel different.

But Earl Sweatshirt has my favorite style of anyone going right now, a few bad decisions on his first studio album notwithstanding.

[PancakeBrah]

Tyler's verse was dope.

Earl loses me sometimes. He's so good. But sometimes it's just...eh.

[Certain]

Did you listen to Wolf? That might have topped Eminem's new album for Album Trying To Sound Like The Marshall Mathers LP.

[PancakeBrah]

Nah. I prefer my Tyler in small, manageable doses.

But that verse was fucking fire regardless of whatever.

Listening to it now, actually.

MMLP2 was like 10% better than I thought'd be, btw. So it's almost average. I liked some songs.

[Ghost1]

Stop being hiphop hipsters....

I know this sounded broad but i am specifically sleaking tk pancake. Stop it.

[Vulgar]

Cryptic One - Whole Truths, Half Truths, Lies
Inspectah Deck - Czarface

[PancakeBrah]

i am definitely a hipster. i work out and work at a bank. and have more swag than bags.

young man, if i'm a hip hop hipster you need to put your drunk ass to sleep and hope you dream about me again, hoping you can be a hip hop hipster. i'm fourteen health points above you right now.

[Certain]

I'm not a hipster. I just listen to a lot of music.

[PancakeBrah]

jews can't be hipsters.

[Certain]

Philip Roth is a hipster god.

I'm not a Jew. But I am fat. And fat guys can't be hipsters.

[Ghost1]

Itt pancale the faggot saod swag. Amd was happy woth his word choice

[PancakeBrah]

i said swag ironically, like a hipster is wont to do. you don't understand the word wont. look it up.

motherfucker gow left months ago. quit typing like him.

i will drive to pennsylvania or however you spell it and kill you. no allen knight. no spookydeep. you squat above parallel and you know it. you fraud.

[Ghost1]

BULLSHIT FAGGOT POEM FUCK PONYTAIL PUSSU

IF U SAW THESE SENTENCES B4 THE EDIT FEATURE UD BE AT A LOSS

AND MY SQUATS R ASS TO GRASS. IMM THE REAL DEAL.

UR AN INTERNET CHARACTER

U BRING THAY SPOKEN WORD FAGOT LIFESTYKE.TO MY LIVING QIARTERS AND ILL TREAT U LIKE HEMEROIDS HOSS.

[PancakeBrah]

lol

is your plan going. as planned??

HEY IM GOIN TO COME INTO CERTAINS ALBIUM TOPIC AN BRING THE ROFLZ BECAUS FUCK IT. IM BAGS. I AM HTEH KING OF NETCEES

EVE.RYONEY IS GOING TOO LAUGYH

HAHAHAHA

OH, WAIT

you just. won the interanet, bags.

evryone go home, bags won the netces. made everyone shut up.


get. tye fuck outta here. yourw a layoff away from. bein strikta

[Ghost1]

My own.gag?

U in here doin my own gag on me?

Is there.no respect levek on the interwebneyz ne.more?

[Certain]

Hi, guys. So what do you think of Ransom? He needs better beats.

[PancakeBrah]

i think i nailed the impersonation. the 'oh, wait' was out of place, though. and you usually go more in depth. but i just didn't care enough to go picasso on it. may have gone a TAD overboard on the typos/random periods.

[PancakeBrah]

who the fuck is ransom? he black?

[Destroyer]

thanks for the lists

downloading Bronson, sweatshirt, ghostface & Adrian and chance the rapper now

[dead man]

BRONSOLINO

baste the breasts with the juices

[Objective]

No specific order:

1. Inspectah deck + 7l & Esoteric - CZARFACE
2. Brotha Lynch Hung - Mannibalector
3. Demigodz - Killmatic
4. R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die
5. Killah Priest - The Psychic World of Walter Reed
6. Ill Bill - The Grimy Awards
7. Slaine - The Boston Project
8. Bliss n Eso - Circus in the Sky
9. Akala - The Thieves Banquet
10. CES Cru - Constant Energy Struggles
11. Shad - Flying Colors
12. Tech N9ne - Something Else
13. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
14. Slum Village - Evolution
15. Vinnie Paz - Carry on Tradition
16. Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise
17. Hopsin - Knock Madness
18. Madchild - Lawn Mower Man
19. Murs - Curse of the Merch Girl
20. Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons to Die

[Objective]

Bumping this thread in hope for more lists. I want to see if there's anything I've missed or haven't checked out yet.

[Greed]

Every iamsu cd in my playlist is in heavy rotation.

[uh-oh]

Hi, guys. So what do you think of Ransom? He needs better beats.

did you listen to the proposal?

it sounded like statik throwaways, but statiks throwaways still shit on 99 percent of beats made today

[Certain]

did you listen to the proposal?

it sounded like statik throwaways, but statiks throwaways still shit on 99 percent of beats made today

See this thread's original post.

But Statik Selektah sounds like a retread too often to me. He hasn't developed his own flair like the best do. As a result, he's good for letting the rapper be the star on a mixtape, but I wouldn't want to do an album with him (if I were on the level of Action Bronson or Ransom as a rapper).

Also, BagcakeBrah, I listened to Ace Hood's album. It sounded like a hypothetical album where Drake stopped whining and singing and made a straightforward rap album. That's not a knock or praise, really. It was good enough to crack my list (which has been edited).

[Ghost1]

Wordword

I never really fucked w ace before that album....its good tho.

An since were talm boit statik now hes dope....but basically premo lite....i mean rite?

I kno its from last year but ive also been listenin to dice game....with apollo and guilty

Apollo beats r crazy

[Certain]

Agreed. Apollo Brown is the type of guy I would go in on an album with.

[Mike Wrecka]

this thread proves what a sad state hip hop is in but ya my list


Inspectah Deck and Esoteric - Czarface
Prodigy - Albert Einstein
Noreaga - Student of the Game
Ghostface Killah - 12 Reasons to Die
Ill Bill - The Grimy Awards



and ya that's it