Alphabetical index of every hardcore hip hop album I would rate a 7/10 or above.
(Related indexes: Abstract Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop)
Hardcore hip hop is a relatively broad blanket term; it may include the genres of "horrorcore", some "industrial hip hop", "boom bap" and "gangsta rap", along with rare incidents of other subgenres.
Generally, the term hardcore hip hop is applied to an album that heavily features confrontation and aggression as a listening experience. Projects in this style are often boastful, vulgar, and hedonistic. Beats are often heavy, and the vocal delivery aggressive.
Much of the genre doesn't click with me, and those that do often require me to be in a certain mood. Generally, the ones under the umbrella I come back to most often are paired with other genres and are more conceptual or thought-provoking. Nevertheless, I admittedly do enjoy a lot; these are listed below.
1. Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses || Industrial Hip Hop, Horrorcore || 2021 || aggressive, noisy, dark || Canada || 9/10
Key tracks: Burn to Ashes, I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses, Wail of the Banshee
2. Backxwash - His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering || Industrial Hip Hop, Horrorcore || 2022 || occult, ant-religious, dark || Canada || 10/10
Key tracks: Vibanda, Juju, Nyama
3. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal || Gangsta Rap || 1995 || melodic, urban, nocturnal || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: East 1999, Mo' Murda, Crossroad
4. Danny Brown - XXX || Hardcore Hip Hop || 2011 || drugs, vulgar, sexual || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: 30, DNA, XXX
5. Danny Brown - Old || Hardcore Hip Hop || 2013 || manic, drugs, humorous || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: The Return, Clean Up, Lonely
6. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition || Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2016 || drugs, dark, manic || USA || 9.5/10
Key tracks: Ain't It Funny, Really Doe, Hell for It
7. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿ || Hardcore Hip Hop || 2019 || psychedelic, humorous, vulgar || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: Dirty Laundry, Combat, Shine
8. clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood || Industrial Hip Hop, Horrorcore || 2019 || crime, noisy, scary || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: He Dead, Nothing is Safe, Blood of the Fang
9. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned || Horrorcore, Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop || 2020 || avant-garde, noisy, dark || USA || 8.5/10
Key tracks: Say the Name, Enlacing, Body for the Pile
10. Conway the Machine - God Don't Make Mistakes || East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2022 || drugs, urban, crime || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: So Much More, Stressed, God Don't Make Mistakes
11. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday || West Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap || 1993 || drugs, crime, urban || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: I Ain't Goin' Out Like That, Insane in the Brain, Hits from the Bong
12. Dälek - Precipice || Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2022 || ethereal, atmospheric, noisy || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: The Harbingers, Boycott, A Heretic's Inheritance
13. Death Grips - The Money Store || Industrial Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop || 2012 || aggressive, manic, noisy || USA || 9.5/10
Key tracks: Get Got, The Fever (Aye Aye), Hacker
14. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP || Hardcore Hip Hop || 1999 || vulgar, humorous, drugs || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: My Name Is, Rock Bottom, Still Don't Get an A
15. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP || Hardcore Hip Hop || 2000 || misanthropic, vulgar, violence || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Stan, The Real Slim Shady, The Way I Am
16. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords || East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Boom Bap || 1995 || USA || 8.5/10
Key tracks: Cold World, 4th Chamber, Liquid Swords
17. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo || Gangsta Rap || 2020 || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: Something to Rap About, 1985, God is Perfect
18. Ghais Guevara - There Will Be No Super-Slave || Political Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Chipmunk Soul || 2022 || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: I Personally Wouldn't Have Released John McCain, Face / Off, This Ski Mask Ain't For COVID
19. JPEGMAFIA - LP! || Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2021 || eclectic, psychedelic, sampling || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: Dirty!, Hazard Duty Pay!, Tired, Nervous and Broke!
20. JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes || Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2023 || chaotic, sampling, manic || USA || 8/10
Key tracks: Garbage Pale Kids, Scaring the Hoes, Kingdom Hearts Key
21. Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation || Memphis Rap, Southern Hip Hop || 2012 || drugs, vulgar, crime || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Serious Shit, Bitch I'm Lugubrious, Twistin
22. Little Simz - Drop 6 || UK Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2020 || rhythmic, conscious, urban || UK || 7/10
Key tracks: Might Bang, Might Not, Where's My Lighter, One Life, Might Live
23. Nas - Illmatic || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop || 1994 || urban, crime, introspective || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: N.Y. State of Mind, Life's a Bitch, The World is Yours
24. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version || East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop || 1995 || manic, raw, humorous || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Brooklyn Zoo, Proteck Ya Neck II The Zoo
25. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back || Political Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop || 1988 || political, angry, protest || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, Bring the Noise, Don't Believe the Hype
26. Pusha T - DAYTONA || Hardcore Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop || 2018 || drugs, crime, sampling || USA || 7/10
Key tracks: The Games We Play, If You Know You Know, Hard Piano
27. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 || Hardcore Hip Hop || 2014 || aggressive, political, energetic || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Oh My Darling Don't Cry, Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck), Angel Duster
28. Run the Jewels - RTJ4 || Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop || 2020 || political, boastful, manic || USA || 7.5/10
Key tracks: Walking in the Snow, Ju$t, Ooh La La
29. RXK Nephew - Slitherman Activated || Trap, Gangsta Rap, Experimental Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop || 2021 || humorous, drugs, manic || USA || 7.5/10
Key tracks: Squabble, Beam on Ya Toes, Early Age Death
30. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS || West Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop || 2024 || introspective, boastful, hedonistic || USA || 7.5/10
Key tracks: Blueslides, Foux, Pig Feet
31. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) || East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop || 1993 || urban, aggressive, raw || USA || 9/10
Key tracks: Bring Da Ruckus, Shame on a N****, Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
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