Top Conscious Hip Hop Albums
1 |
17 |
Kendrick Lamar |
To Pimp a Butterfly |
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Jazz Rap
|
2015 |
2 |
18 |
Public Enemy |
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
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Hardcore Hip Hop,
Political Hip Hop
|
1988 |
3 |
73 |
De La Soul |
3 Feet High and Rising |
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|
1989 |
4 |
128 |
Kendrick Lamar |
good kid, m.A.A.d. city |
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|
2012 |
5 |
130 |
Public Enemy |
Fear of a Black Planet |
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Political Hip Hop
|
1990 |
6 |
181 |
Kendrick Lamar |
DAMN. |
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|
2017 |
7 |
194 |
A Tribe Called Quest |
The Low End Theory |
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Jazz Rap
|
1991 |
8 |
272 |
Fugees |
The Score |
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|
1996 |
9 |
367 |
OutKast |
Aquemini |
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1998 |
10 |
511 |
A Tribe Called Quest |
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service |
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Jazz Rap
|
2016 |
11 |
634 |
The Roots |
Things Fall Apart |
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|
1999 |
12 |
732 |
Mos Def |
Black on Both Sides |
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|
1999 |
13 |
745 |
Public Enemy |
Yo! Bum Rush the Show |
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Hardcore Hip Hop
|
1987 |
14 |
909 |
De La Soul |
De La Soul Is Dead |
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|
1991 |
15 |
981 |
Chance the Rapper |
Coloring Book |
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Pop Rap
|
2016 |
16 |
1114 |
Noname |
Room 25 |
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Jazz Rap
|
2018 |
17 |
1201 |
Boogie Down Productions |
By All Means Necessary |
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Boom Bap,
Hardcore Hip Hop,
Political Hip Hop |
1988 |
18 |
1265 |
Jungle Brothers |
Done by the Forces of Nature |
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1989 |
19 |
1372 |
Little Simz |
Grey Area |
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UK Hip Hop
|
2019 |
20 |
1497 |
2Pac |
Me Against the World |
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Gangsta Rap
|
1995 |
21 |
1548 |
Public Enemy |
Apocalypse '91 - The Enemy Strikes Black |
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Hardcore Hip Hop,
Political Hip Hop
|
1991 |
22 |
1571 |
Black Star |
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star |
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Boom Bap
|
1998 |
23 |
1608 |
Common |
Like Water for Chocolate |
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2000 |
24 |
1761 |
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy |
Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury |
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Political Hip Hop
|
1992 |
25 |
2047 |
Common |
Be |
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2005 |
26 |
2079 |
Jungle Brothers |
Straight out the Jungle |
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|
1988 |
27 |
2100 |
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth |
Mecca and the Soul Brother |
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Boom Bap,
Jazz Rap
|
1992 |
28 |
2387 |
Kate Tempest |
Let Them Eat Chaos |
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Political Hip Hop,
UK Hip Hop
|
2016 |
29 |
2611 |
Blackalicious |
Blazing Arrow |
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2002 |
30 |
2659 |
Q-Tip |
The Renaissance |
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2008 |
31 |
2691 |
The Roots |
How I Got Over |
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|
2010 |
32 |
2692 |
MC Solaar |
Prose combat |
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Boom Bap,
French Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap |
1994 |
33 |
2851 |
Kendrick Lamar |
untitled unmastered. |
|
Jazz Rap
|
2016 |
34 |
2981 |
MC Solaar |
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo |
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Boom Bap,
French Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap |
1991 |
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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P.M. Dawn |
Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience |
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Pop Rap
|
1991 |
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De La Soul |
Buhloone Mind State |
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Jazz Rap
|
1993 |
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Dave |
Psychodrama |
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UK Hip Hop
|
2019 |
|
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Gang Starr |
Daily Operation |
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Boom Bap,
Hardcore Hip Hop
|
1992 |
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Main Source |
Breaking Atoms |
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Boom Bap
|
1991 |
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Lupe Fiasco |
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor |
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2006 |
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Common Sense |
Resurrection |
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Boom Bap
|
1994 |
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Brand Nubian |
One for All |
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|
1990 |
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Drake |
Thank Me Later |
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Pop Rap
|
2010 |
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Goodie Mob |
Soul Food |
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Political Hip Hop
|
1995 |
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Jeru the Damaja |
The Sun Rises in the East |
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Boom Bap,
Hardcore Hip Hop
|
1994 |
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Noname |
Telefone |
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Jazz Rap
|
2016 |
|
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Saba |
Care for Me |
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2018 |
|
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Rapsody |
Eve |
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2019 |
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KRS-One |
Return of the Boom Bap |
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Boom Bap,
Political Hip Hop
|
1993 |
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The Roots |
Undun |
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2011 |
|
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Nas |
Life Is Good |
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|
2012 |
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Reflection Eternal |
Train of Thought |
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Boom Bap
|
2000 |
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Common |
Electric Circus |
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Experimental Hip Hop
|
2002 |
|
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Blackalicious |
Nia |
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1999 |
|
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P.M. Dawn |
The Bliss Album...? |
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Contemporary R&B,
Pop Rap
|
1993 |
|
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Spearhead |
Home |
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1994 |
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The Coup |
Party Music |
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Political Hip Hop
|
2001 |
|
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Kendrick Lamar |
Section.80 |
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|
2011 |
|
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Organized Konfusion |
Stress: The Extinction Agenda |
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Boom Bap,
Jazz Rap
|
1994 |
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Kano |
Hoodies All Summer |
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UK Hip Hop
|
2019 |
|
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Sampa the Great |
The Return |
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Jazz Rap,
Neo-Soul
|
2019 |
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Common |
One Day It'll All Make Sense |
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|
1997 |
|
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Open Mike Eagle |
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream |
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Abstract Hip Hop
|
2017 |
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The Goats |
Tricks of the Shade |
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Political Hip Hop
|
1992 |
|
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Common |
Black America Again |
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2016 |
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J. Cole |
2014 Forest Hills Drive |
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2014 |
|
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The Coup |
Pick a Bigger Weapon |
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Political Hip Hop
|
2006 |
|
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De La Soul |
And the Anonymous Nobody |
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2016 |
|
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Rapsody |
Laila's Wisdom |
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2017 |
|
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Isaiah Rashad |
The Sun's Tirade |
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Southern Hip Hop
|
2016 |
|
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Ab-Soul |
Control System |
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West Coast Hip Hop
|
2012 |
|
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Wale |
The Mixtape About Nothing |
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East Coast Hip Hop
|
2008 |
|
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Lupe Fiasco |
Tetsuo & Youth |
|
|
2015 |
|
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Lupe Fiasco |
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool |
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|
2007 |
|
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Brother Ali |
The Undisputed Truth |
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|
2007 |
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Big K.R.I.T. |
ReturnOf4Eva |
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Dirty South,
Southern Hip Hop
|
2011 |
|
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Nas & Damian Marley |
Distant Relatives |
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East Coast Hip Hop
|
2010 |
|
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Jean Grae & Quelle Chris |
Everything's Fine |
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Abstract Hip Hop
|
2018 |
|
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Brother Ali |
Us |
|
Boom Bap
|
2009 |
|
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Joey Bada$$ |
All Amerikkkan Bada$$ |
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Political Hip Hop
|
2017 |
|
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Pharoahe Monch |
Desire |
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East Coast Hip Hop
|
2007 |
|
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Common |
Finding Forever |
|
|
2007 |
|
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
The Heist |
|
Pop Rap
|
2012 |
|
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Sage Francis |
A Healthy Distrust |
|
|
2005 |
|
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J. Cole |
KOD |
|
|
2018 |
|
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Plan B |
Ill Manors |
|
Film Soundtrack,
UK Hip Hop
|
2012 |
|
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Blu & Exile |
Below the Heavens |
|
Boom Bap,
Jazz Rap,
West Coast Hip Hop |
2007 |