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The Definitive Hip Hop Review Archive

Hip Hop Albums.
Hip Hop Reviews.
Every era.

The first platform to aggregate critical reviews for hip hop albums. From DJ Kool Herc's block parties to today's chart-toppers, organized by year.

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Browse by Decade
70s
The foundations
Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow
80s
The golden dawn
Run-DMC, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy
90s
The golden era
Nas, Wu-Tang, Biggie, Tupac, Outkast
00s
The expansion
Kanye, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Eminem
10s
The new wave
Kendrick, Drake, J. Cole, Travis Scott
20s
The now
Tyler, Baby Keem, JID, GloRilla
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How It Works

Reviews from everywhere, in one place

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Aggregated Scores

Thousands of albums, one score. We pull reviews from 8+ publications — Pitchfork, HipHopDX, RapReviews, Metacritic, and more — and distill them into a single, trustworthy number.

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Five Decades, Year by Year

From DJ Kool Herc to today's releases, browse the full breadth of hip hop history. See what dropped in 1988, compare it to 2024. Context changes everything.

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The Catalog

Not just the classics — thousands of hip hop albums from underground tapes to platinum records. From the golden era to the streaming age, it's all here.

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Critical Consensus

See where the critics agree and where they don't. Some albums get 10s from one outlet and 5s from another. That's the story.

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Hip hop is the only genre where every decade sounds completely different from the last. The reviews tell that story. We're collecting all of them.

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