About “Hip-Hop’s Greatest Albums By Year”

ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists (buy a copy here) is a highly-entertaining reference book about hip-hop history by the creators of ego trip Magazine.

It includes a list of the greatest rap songs and albums each year between 1979 and 1998. These lists remain the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the rap music that mattered during hip-hop’s first 20 years.

The top 25 “Greatest Albums” list from each year are reproduced here, with links to the individual album and song pages on Genius. Note that albums from 1979-1985 and 1986-1987, respectively, were combined into single lists as hip-hop LPs were less common during those years.

See more discussion here.

Click the links below to jump to each year’s list: