Billboard staff combs through the 20 best rap albums of 2024 ranging from Future to Kendrick Lamar to Megan Thee Stallion and more.

But rap had so much more to offer this year besides that history-in-the-making moment, including a ton of great albums ... delivery is perfect for all of it. 24. Megan Thee Stallion – MEGAN ...

Bottom line: Sophomore albums don't come much more scrutinized ... Bottom line: The greatest rap song of all time wasn't even ...

Vince Staples gets deeply personal on Dark Times, his most introspective album since 2015’s Summertime ’06. With a slower, atmospheric production style influenced by jazz, the album explores past ...

While everyone was busy talking about celebrity beef and courtroom drama, some of the most innovative rap albums of 2024 were quietly making history. These aren’t just good albums – they’re ...

2024 has been a year of surprises in the rap game, but not all of them were pleasant. For the first time since 2014 ... how audiences engage with full albums, affecting traditional sales metrics.

Over the years, hip-hop has continued to be one of the most consumed genres among music fans, and 2024 was no exception. While 2023 marked a milestone celebrating hip-hop's 50th anniversary, 2024 ...

For the first time in 14 years, Ice Cube has a solo album in the top on Billboard's Top Rap Albums as Man Down debuts ... The project also debuts at No. 9 on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart.

What a time to be alive in 2024 ... The Creator. See all these artists and many more in the Billboard staff’s list of top 20 best rap albums of the year, below. The Detroit spitter dropped ...

A year that was also haunted by new white grifters falling from the sky every time you blinked ... with Pitchfork’s Albums of the Year list. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2024 wrap-up coverage here.

This week, we tackled the very best K-pop songs of 2024, and today we’ve assembled a comprehensive list of, what we believe to be, the strongest rap albums from 2024. Whether it was the surprise ...