

Let’s get into it, check out what we think are the best Hip Hop albums of 2021 so far.

This list will be updated regularly until the end of the year, where it will result in our best-of-the-year list. This is a top 60, albums that don’t make the best 60 of the year but which are worth listening to anyway are mentioned in the honorable mentions – January – June, and July – December. The only way to compile an authoritative list like this one is to keep track of new releases week-by-week, day-by-day even. But having said that, lots of dope EP’s drop each and every year, so we will not ignore them – scroll down for a section with some of the best EP’s released in 2021, as well as a listing of 2021’s best instrumental and best Hip Hop adjacent projects. Some artists bill barely 30-minute-long projects as albums – HHGA categorizes projects that clock in at under 30 minutes as EP’s however, and we do not rank them on our album list: an album = an LP. As always on our best of the year lists, not included are instrumental albums, compilations, and EP’s. Hip Hop has never been as diverse as it is now – and 2021 turned out to be just as stacked with quality Hip Hop releases as 2020 was. The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2021: 2020 was a terrible year in general, but a great year for Hip Hop.
