New year, new thread. Same rules as last year. Hope to get more discussion in here!
I will get the ball rolling. This technically came out in 2016, but it came out so late I am putting it here.
Run The Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
Killer Mike and El-P outdid themselves. This is my favorite Run the Jewels joint thus far. They might alienate some fans due to how political this album is, but there are plenty of quite frankly a lot of amazing non political songs (Down, Legend Has It, Call Ticketron, Panther like Panther, etc.). Its gonna be hard for this to be topped rap wise this year.
The new xx album comes out tomorrow so I have my eyes on that too. Gorillaz, Big Sean, Earl Sweatshirt, ASAP Rocky, Sampha and Drake are coming out with new stuff this year too.
I will get the ball rolling. This technically came out in 2016, but it came out so late I am putting it here.

Run The Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
Killer Mike and El-P outdid themselves. This is my favorite Run the Jewels joint thus far. They might alienate some fans due to how political this album is, but there are plenty of quite frankly a lot of amazing non political songs (Down, Legend Has It, Call Ticketron, Panther like Panther, etc.). Its gonna be hard for this to be topped rap wise this year.
The new xx album comes out tomorrow so I have my eyes on that too. Gorillaz, Big Sean, Earl Sweatshirt, ASAP Rocky, Sampha and Drake are coming out with new stuff this year too.