The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2011
2011 was a year of great diversity, in which rap fans were faced with enough variety to find whatever flavor of hip-hop they wanted.
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Run the Jewels Return with ‘RTJ4’ When We Need Them Most
Run the Jewels have always had a taste for action-movie hyperbole, but as they've powered through their careers, the lines between slapstick and real have almost ceased to exist.
Run the Jewels – “Ooh LA LA” (Singles Going Steady)
Run the Jewels' "Ooh LA LA" may hit with old-school hip-hop swagger, but it also frustratingly affirms misogynistic bro-culture.
Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 3
Run the Jewels 3 is the sound of one hip-hop's most significant groups channeling their feelings of frustration, alienation, and rage into a radical call to arms.
Panorama Peaks with Sounds of Silver
Panorama closes out its first edition with the monumental return of LCD Soundsystem and an awkward performance by Sia.
Lushlife + CSLSX – “This Ecstatic Cult ft. Killer Mike” (Singles Going Steady)
The haze and trap of this beat is almost uncannily indebted to Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, which of course is gonna sound good under an Atlanta flow.
Run the Jewels: Meow the Jewels
The jewel runners go full Cheezburger, pointing claws and snatching collars in the finest feline-based album in the history of everdom.
Run the Jewels – “Early” (video)
Socially conscious and musically inventive in the way we've come to expect from Run the Jewels, the animated video to "Early" is a real ear and eye-grabber.
Counterbalance: Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
One of 2014's most acclaimed albums is a dense, challenging effort from two wily veterans. Profanities and profundities abound in this week's Counterbalance.
Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2
A bluesy howl of addictive beats, political fury, and hypnotic technique, the sequel to Run the Jewels' triumphant debut bests the original in every way.
Run the Jewels – “Blockbuster Night Part 1” (audio)
Run the Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) have dropped a cut from their forthcoming Run the Jewels 2, "Blockbuster Night Part 1".
