Joey Badass

We’ve been blessed with an abundance of major rap releases this year. So without further ado, here are the 20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015.

It’s been much harder than last year to select the Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015 (So Far), but we delivered. Check out some of the top-tier releases in hip-hop in the last six months.

We've come to our conclusion of which artists put forth the most quality material over the last three months. Here are our choices for the five best hip-hop albums released in the first quarter of 2015.

After dropping his debut mixtape 1999 in 2012, Joey Bada$$ has transitioned to a gruffer, more aggressive flow, and that continues on his new single "Big Dusty." Despite the slight stylistic change, he's as lyrical as ever, here delivering a couple of verses over the type of jazzy, boomb bap head-bobber he thrives on, this one from Kirk Knight...