Top 122 Projects of 2019 (all genres)

[scroll down for the Hip-Hop only list]

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – BANDANA (ESGN/Madlib Invasion/RCA)👑
2. Anderson .Paak – Ventura (12 Tone/Aftermath)
3. SiR – Chasing Summer (TDE/RCA)
4. Little Simz – GREY Area (Age 101)
5. Ari Lennox – Shea Butter Baby (Dreamville/Interscope)
6. Little Brother – May The Lord Watch (Imagine Nation/For Members Only/EMPIRE)
7. Roc Marciano – Marcielago (Marci Enterprises)
8. Crimeapple & DJ Skizz – Wet Dirt (Different Worlds Music Group)
9. Curren$y & LNDN DRGS – Umbrella Symphony (GDF Records/Jet Life/EMPIRE)
10. Tuamie & Fly Anakin – Emergency Raps Vol. 4 (Mutant Academy)
11. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places (Backwoodz Studioz)
12. NBA YoungBoy – AI YoungBoy 2 (NEVER BROKE AGAIN, LLC/Atlantic)
13. Dave – Psychodrama (Neighbourhood)
14. MAVI – Let the Sun Talk (MAVI)
15. Loyle Carner – Not Waving, but Drowning (AMF/Virgin EMI)
16. Rapsody – EVE (Jamla/Roc Nation)
17. Jim Jones – El Capo (Vamplife/EMPIRE)
18. DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy – Tuez-les Tous (Soul Assassins Music)
19. Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers)
20. Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Iz Here (Multi Alumni/BMG)
21. Wiz Khalifa – Fly Times Vol.1: The Good Fly Young (Taylor Gang/Rostrum)
22. Curren$y & Statik Selektah – Gran Turismo (Jet Life/Show Off/EMPIRE)
23. Kari Faux – Cry 4 Help (Change Minds)
24. Your Old Droog – It Wasn’t Even Close (Gogul Mogul)
25. Rigz – Roach Gutta Slums (Da Cloth)
26. Daniel Caesar – CASE STUDY 101 (Golden Child)
27. Nas – The Lost Tapes 2 (Mass Appeal/Def Jam)
28. Quelle Chris – Guns (Mello Music Group/Sony)
29. Doja Cat – Hot Pink (Kemosabe/RCA)
30. KAYTRANADA – Bubba (Kaytranada Ent/RCA)
31. Benny the Butcher – The Plugs I Met (Griselda/Black Soprano Family)
32. Snoh Aalegra – ugh, those feels again (ARTium/AWAL)
33. Mozzy – Internal Affairs (Mozzy Records/EMPIRE)
34. Suga Free – The Resurrection (Buss Clinic LLC)
35. Choosey & Exile – Black Beans (Fat Beats Records)
36. 38 Spesh – 38 Strategies of Raw (T.C.F. Music Group)
37. Maxo – Lil Big Man (Def Jam)
38. T-Pain – 1UP  (Nappy Boy/Cinematic)
39. DJ Muggs & Tha God Fahim – Dump Assassins (Soul Assassins Music)
40. Blu & Oh No – A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night (Nature Sounds)
41. Westside Gunn – Fly God is an Awesome God (Griselda/Shady)
42. Denzel Curry – ZUU (PH/Loma Vista)
43. Stack Skrilla & Tha God Fahim – Dump Gawd: The Divine Brotherhood (Skrilla Vision)
44. Action Bronson & The Alchemist – Lamb Over Rice (ALC)
45. GoldLink – Diaspora (RCA)
46. Kehlani – While We Wait (Atlantic/TSNMI)
47. PJ Morton – PAUL (Morton Records/EMPIRE)
48. Tyler, the Creator – IGOR (Columbia/A Boy Is A Gun)
49. Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa – 2009 (Jet Life Records/Atlantic)
50. Flee Lord – Gets Greater Later (Loyalty or Death)
51. Berner & Curren$y – Pheno Grigio (Bern One Ent/Jet Life Recordings)
52. Rod Wave – Ghetto Gospel (Alamo Records)
53. Mach-Hommy – Wap Konn Jòj (Mach-Hommy)
54. Berner & Mozzy – Silmey Individualz (Bern One Ent/Mozzy Records/EMPIRE)
55. Czarface & Ghostface Killah – Czarface Meets Ghostface (Silver Age)
56. James Blake – Assume Form (Polydor)
57. Future – Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (Freebandz/Epic)
58. Dizzy Wright – Nobody Cares, Work Harder (StillMovin)
59. People Under the Stairs – Sincerely, The P (PL70)
60. MED & Guilty Simpson – Child of the Jungle (Bang Ya Head)
61. Sean Price & Small Professor – 86 Witness (Ruckdown/Coalmine/Duck Down)
62. Tha God Fahim – Soul Dust (Tha God Fahim)
63. Eric Bellinger – Cuffing Season 3 (YFS/EMPIRE)
64. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats – Anger Management (Sugar Trap)
65. ScHoolboy Q – CrasH Talk (TDE/Interscope)
66. Berner – El Chivo (Bern One Ent)
67. Solange – When I Get Home (Columbia)
68. Max B – House Money EP (Max B)
69. Tha God Fahim – Star Truth (Effiscienz)
70. Curren$y – Hot August Nights (Jet Life Recordings)
71. Pivot Gang – You Can’t Sit With Us (Pivot Gang)
72. Big K.R.I.T. – TDT  (Multi Alumni)
73. Boogie – Everything’s For Sale (Shady/Interscope)
74. Griselda – WWCD (Griselda/Shady/Interscope/Universal)
75. Blu & Exile – True & Livin’ (Fat Beats)
76. Mereba – The Jungle is the Only Way Out (Interscope)
77. Injury Reserve – Injury Reserve (Loma Vista)
78. Megan Thee Stallion – FEVER (300/1501 Certified Ent)
79. 38 Spesh – The Trust Tape 3 (T.C.F. Music Group)
80. DJ Muggs & Crimeapple – Medallo (Soul Assassins Music)
81. Mozzy & Gunplay – Chop Stixx & Banana Clips (Real Talk Entertainment)
82. Conway the Machine – Everybody is F.O.O.D 3 (Griselda)
83. Kanye West – Jesus is King (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam)
84. Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY! (Jagjaguwar)
85. Queen Key – Eat My Pussy Again (Machine Entertainment Group)
86. Dreamville – Revenge of the Dreamers III (Dreamville/Interscope)
87. Lizzo – Cuz I Love You (Nice Life/Atlantic)
88. Baby Keem – Die for My Bitch (Baby Keem LLC)
89. Flying Lotus – Flamagra (Warp)
90. Yhung T.O. – On My Momma 2 (SOBxRBE/Rule #1/Interscope)
91. 2 Chainz – Rap or Go to the League (Def Jam)
92. Steve Lacy – Apollo XXI (3qtr)
93. Phonte – Pacific Time (Foreign Exchange Music)
94. Big Kahuna OG & Fly Anakin – Big Fly 420 (Mutant Academy)
95. Dreezy – Big Dreez (Interscope)
96. YG – 4REAL 4REAL (4Hunnid/Def Jam)
97. Erick Sermon – Vernia (Def Squad)
98. Styles P – S.P. the GOAT: Ghost of All-Time (The Phantom Entertainment/EMPIRE)
99. The Opioid Era – The Opioid Era (De Rap Winkel)
100. Young Thug – So Much Fun (300/Atlantic)
101. Curren$y – Back at Burnie’s (Jet Life Recordings)
102. Roddy Ricch – Please Excuse Me For Being Anti-Social (Atlantic)
103. Clear Soul Forces – Still (Fat Beats)
104. Tink – Voicemails (Winter’s Diary/WD/EMPIRE)
105. Khalid – Free Spirit (RCA)
106. Larry June – The Port of San Francisco (The Freeminded)
107. Ciara – Beauty Marks (Beauty Marks)
108. Stunna 4 Vegas – BIG 4X (Interscope)
109. wifisfuneral & Robb Bank$ – CONN3CT3D (Conn3ct3d/Alamo Records/EMPIRE)
110. Fabolous – Summertime Shootout: Coldest Summer Ever (Street Family/Def Jam/Roc Nation)
111. Melii – Phases (Rule #1/Interscope)
112. Chris Crack – Crackheads Live Longer Than Vegans (New Deal Collectives)
113. Murs & 9th Wonder – The Iliad Is Dead and the Odyssey Is Over (Murs 316/Jamla/EMPIRE)
114. Earl Sweatshirt – FEET OF CLAY (Tan Cressida/Warner)
115. DaBaby – KIRK (Interscope)
116. Future – Save Me (Freebandz/Epic)
117. Azjah – Princess Diaries (Rocc Solid Ent/EMPIRE)
118. Offset – Father of 4 (Quality Control/Motown)
119. DaBaby – Baby on Baby (Interschope)
120. Saweetie – ICY (Warner)
121. RetcH – Richer Than the Opps (FASTMONEY)
122. Gunna – Drip or Drown 2 (YSL)

Hip-Hop only list:

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – BANDANA (ESGN/Madlib Invasion/RCA)👑
2. Little Simz – GREY Area (Age 101)
3. Little Brother – May The Lord Watch (Imagine Nation/For Members Only/EMPIRE)
4. Roc Marciano – Marcielago (Marci Enterprises)
5. Crimeapple & DJ Skizz – Wet Dirt (Different Worlds Music Group)
6. Curren$y & LNDN DRGS – Umbrella Symphony (GDF Records/Jet Life/EMPIRE)
7. Tuamie & Fly Anakin – Emergency Raps Vol. 4 (Mutant Academy)
8. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places (Backwoodz Studioz)
9. NBA YoungBoy – AI YoungBoy 2 (NEVER BROKE AGAIN, LLC/Atlantic)
10. Dave – Psychodrama (Neighbourhood)
11. MAVI – Let the Sun Talk (MAVI)
12. Loyle Carner – Not Waving, but Drowning (AMF/Virgin EMI)
13. Rapsody – EVE (Jamla/Roc Nation)
14. Jim Jones – El Capo (Vamplife/EMPIRE)
15. DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy – Tuez-les Tous (Soul Assassins Music)
16. Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers)
17. Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Iz Here (Multi Alumni/BMG)
18. Wiz Khalifa – Fly Times Vol.1: The Good Fly Young (Taylor Gang/Rostrum)
19. Curren$y & Statik Selektah – Gran Turismo (Jet Life/Show Off/EMPIRE)
20. Your Old Droog – It Wasn’t Even Close (Gogul Mogul)
21. Rigz – Roach Gutta Slums (Da Cloth)
22. Nas – The Lost Tapes 2 (Mass Appeal/Def Jam)
23. Quelle Chris – Guns (Mello Music Group/Sony)
24. Doja Cat – Hot Pink (Kemosabe/RCA)
25. Benny the Butcher – The Plugs I Met (Griselda/Black Soprano Family)
26. Mozzy – Internal Affairs (Mozzy Records/EMPIRE)
27. Suga Free – The Resurrection (Buss Clinic LLC)
28. Choosey & Exile – Black Beans (Fat Beats Records)
29. 38 Spesh – 38 Strategies of Raw (T.C.F. Music Group)
30. Maxo – Lil Big Man (Def Jam)
31. DJ Muggs & Tha God Fahim – Dump Assassins (Soul Assassins Music)
32. Blu & Oh No – A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night (Nature Sounds)
33. Westside Gunn – Fly God is an Awesome God (Griselda/Shady)
34. Denzel Curry – ZUU (PH/Loma Vista)
35. Stack Skrilla & Tha God Fahim – Dump Gawd: The Divine Brotherhood (Skrilla Vision)
36. Action Bronson & The Alchemist – Lamb Over Rice (ALC)
37. GoldLink – Diaspora (RCA)
38. Tyler, the Creator – IGOR (Columbia/A Boy Is A Gun)
39. Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa – 2009 (Jet Life Records/Atlantic)
40. Flee Lord – Gets Greater Later (Loyalty or Death)
41. Berner & Curren$y – Pheno Grigio (Bern One Ent/Jet Life Recordings)
42. Mach-Hommy – Wap Konn Jòj (Mach-Hommy)
43. Berner & Mozzy – Silmey Individualz (Bern One Ent/Mozzy Records/EMPIRE)
44. Czarface & Ghostface Killah – Czarface Meets Ghostface (Silver Age)
45. Future – Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (Freebandz/Epic)
46. Dizzy Wright – Nobody Cares, Work Harder (StillMovin)
47. People Under the Stairs – Sincerely, The P (PL70)
48. MED & Guilty Simpson – Child of the Jungle (Bang Ya Head)
49. Sean Price & Small Professor – 86 Witness (Ruckdown/Coalmine/Duck Down)
50. Tha God Fahim – Soul Dust (Tha God Fahim)
51. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats – Anger Management (Sugar Trap)
52. ScHoolboy Q – CrasH Talk (TDE/Interscope)
53. Berner – El Chivo (Bern One Ent)
54. Max B – House Money EP (Max B)
55. Tha God Fahim – Star Truth (Effiscienz)
56. Curren$y – Hot August Nights (Jet Life Recordings)
57. Pivot Gang – You Can’t Sit With Us (Pivot Gang)
58. Big K.R.I.T. – TDT  (Multi Alumni)
59. Boogie – Everything’s For Sale (Shady/Interscope)
60. Griselda – WWCD (Griselda/Shady/Interscope/Universal)
61. Blu & Exile – True & Livin’ (Fat Beats)
62. Injury Reserve – Injury Reserve (Loma Vista)
63. Megan Thee Stallion – FEVER (300/1501 Certified Ent)
64. 38 Spesh – The Trust Tape 3 (T.C.F. Music Group)
65. DJ Muggs & Crimeapple – Medallo (Soul Assassins Music)
66. Mozzy & Gunplay – Chop Stixx & Banana Clips (Real Talk Entertainment)
67. Conway the Machine – Everybody is F.O.O.D 3 (Griselda)
68. Kanye West – Jesus is King (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam)
69. Queen Key – Eat My Pussy Again (Machine Entertainment Group)
70. Dreamville – Revenge of the Dreamers III (Dreamville/Interscope)
71. Baby Keem – Die for My Bitch (Baby Keem LLC)
72. Yhung T.O. – On My Momma 2 (SOBxRBE/Rule #1/Interscope)
73. 2 Chainz – Rap or Go to the League (Def Jam)
74. Big Kahuna OG & Fly Anakin – Big Fly 420 (Mutant Academy)
75. Dreezy – Big Dreez (Interscope)
76. YG – 4REAL 4REAL (4Hunnid/Def Jam)
77. Erick Sermon – Vernia (Def Squad)
78. Styles P – S.P. the GOAT: Ghost of All-Time (The Phantom Entertainment/EMPIRE)
79. The Opioid Era – The Opioid Era (De Rap Winkel)
80. Young Thug – So Much Fun (300/Atlantic)
81. Curren$y – Back at Burnie’s (Jet Life Recordings)
82. Roddy Ricch – Please Excuse Me For Being Anti-Social (Atlantic)
83. Clear Soul Forces – Still (Fat Beats)
84. Tink – Voicemails (Winter’s Diary/WD/EMPIRE)
85. Larry June – The Port of San Francisco (The Freeminded)
86. Stunna 4 Vegas – BIG 4X (Interscope)
87. wifisfuneral & Robb Bank$ – CONN3CT3D (Conn3ct3d/Alamo Records/EMPIRE)
88. Fabolous – Summertime Shootout: Coldest Summer Ever (Street Family/Def Jam/Roc Nation)
89. Melii – Phases (Rule #1/Interscope)
90. Chris Crack – Crackheads Live Longer Than Vegans (New Deal Collectives)
91. Murs & 9th Wonder – The Iliad Is Dead and the Odyssey Is Over (Murs 316/Jamla/EMPIRE)
92. Earl Sweatshirt – FEET OF CLAY (Tan Cressida/Warner)
93. DaBaby – KIRK (Interscope)
94. Future – Save Me (Freebandz/Epic)
95. Azjah – Princess Diaries (Rocc Solid Ent/EMPIRE)
96. Offset – Father of 4 (Quality Control/Motown)
97. DaBaby – Baby on Baby (Interschope)
98. Saweetie – ICY (Warner)
99. RetcH – Richer Than the Opps (FASTMONEY)
100. Gunna – Drip or Drown 2 (YSL)

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AOTY 2019 Review: BANDANA (MadGibbs)

Editor’s Note: Happy New Years! – @TOP5RAPWEBSITE

Rating Categories:
★★★★★: Best in show; pinnacle release from an all-time great artist.
★★★★1/2: Stellar example of genre; peak potential.
★★★★: Excellent; recommended to all fans of artist or genre.
★★★1/2: Very good; a few bland songs or minor flaws throughout.
★★★: Good; fans of the artist will find value here.
★★1/2: Average; does little to establish the artist or maintain quality.
★★: Unexceptional; a few highlights but otherwise bland.
★1/2: Weak; unrecommended for anyone but major fans of the style and/or artist.
★: Seriously flawed; very poor work but relatively listenable.
1/2: Terrible; a true embarrassment and akin to audio masochism.