These are the most important hip-hop albums that came out on 2024.
Kid Cudi-Insano:
Kid Cudi’s Album Insano came out on January 12, 2024 and the album comes with 20 songs. Cudi’s album features Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, Lil Yachty, Pharrel Williams, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and XXXTENTACION. Cudi’s most streamed song on the album is “AT THE PARTY” with 41.3k streams and his least streamed song is “HIT THE STREETZ IN MY NIKES” with 6.6k streams. On Pitchfork.com they gave the album rating a 4.6 out of 5 and hiphopdx.com they gave the album a rating of 3.3 out of 5. It didn’t get many good ratings and it didn’t do well because some songs had poor music production.
21 Savage-American Dream:
21 Savage’s album came out on January 12, 2024 and the album comes with 15 songs. 21’s album features Doja Cat, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Travis Scott, Summer Walker, Brent Faiyaz, Burna Boy, Tommy Newport, Mikky Ekko, Mariah the Scientist, and Metro Boomin as he produced some beats for his album. 21’s most streamed song on the album is “redrum” with 386.2k streams and his least streamed song is “see the real” with 43.4k streams. On Pitchfork.com they gave it a rating of 6.8 out of 10 and albumoftheyear.org gave it a 72 out of 100. The album did very well and it had some great ratings. The songs had great music production.
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign-Vultures:
Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign album’s Vultures came out February 10, 2024 and the album has 15 songs. The album features India Jones, North West, Freddie Gibbs, Nipsey Hussle, YG, Quavo, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, Bump, Lil Durk, Rich the Kid, and Chris Brown. The duo’s most streamed song is “CARNIVAL” with 2.2M streams and their least streamed song on the album is “GOOD(DON’T DIE)” with 109.8K streams. On Pitchfork.com the album has a rating of 5.8 out of 10 and on albumoftheyear.org gave it a 57 out of 100. The album did decently. I thought the album was good because it did not have any bad songs.
Yeat-2093:
Yeat’s album 2093 dropped February 16, 2024 and the album has 22 songs. The album features Lil Wayne and Future, and not as many featured artists and many of the year’s other albums. The most streamed song on the album is “Breathe” with 124.2k streams and the least streamed song on the album is “Psychocaine” 15.5K streams. On Pitchfork.com it has a rating of 5.8 out of 10 and on albumoftheyear.org it has a rating of 82 out of 100. The album did very well. It was an anticipated album that people were looking forward to listening to.
Schoolboy Q-Blue Lips:
Schoolboy Q’s album Blue Lips dropped on March 1,2024 and the album has 18 songs. The album features Rico Nasty, Devin Malik, Lance Skiiiwalker, Azchike, Freddie Gibbs, Ab-Soul, Jozzy, and Childish Major. The most streamed song on the album is “Blueslides” with 50K streams and the least streamed is “Time Killers” with 6.1K streams. On Pitchfork.com the album has a rating of 8.3 and on albumoftheyear.org the score of the album is 81 out of 100. The album did very well and had great scores and ratings. Same as the Yeat album, it is was an anticipated album because his last album was in 2019.
Future and Metro Boomin-We Don’t Trust You:
Metro and Future’s collaboration album dropped in March 2024 and has 17 songs. The album features The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Kendrick Lamar, and Rick Ross. The most streamed song on the album is “Like That” with 2.7M streams and the least streamed song is “Seen it All” with 49.3k streams. On Pitchfork.com it has a rating of 7 out of 10 and on albumoftheyear.org the score of the album is 62 out of 100. The album did great and had some decent scores and reviews but people expected more from Future and Metro Boomin.
J. Cole-Might Delete Later:
J.Cole’s Might Delete Later album dropped on April 5, 2024 and has 12 songs. The album features Ari Lenox, Gucci Mane, Young Dro, Cam’ron, Bas, Central Cee, Ab-Soul, and Daylyt. The most streamed song on the album is “7 Minute Drill” with 972.7k streams and the least streamed is “Stealth Mode” with 52k streams. On Pitchfork.com the album has a rating of 5.1 out of 10 and on albumoftheyear.org the score of the album is a 48 out of 100. The album did not do that bad but did not do that great. It has some decent ratings and scores it had some decent songs on the album.
Future and Metro Boomin-We Still Don’t Trust You:
Metro and Future drop another collaboration album called We Still Don’t Trust You with 25 songs more than the first collaboration album. The album features The Weeknd, Brownstone, Ty Dolla $ign, J. Cole, Lil Baby, and A$AP Rocky. The most streamed song on the album is “Red Leather” with 433.3k streams and the least streamed is “#1(Intro)” with 41.5k streams. On Pitchfork.com the album has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 and on albumoftheyear.org it has a score of 60 out of 100. The album did well it had more songs with great music production.
Childish Gambino-Atavista:
Childish Gambino new album Atavista released on May 13, 2024 and it has 11 songs. The album features Ariana Grande, 21 Savage, Ink, Kadje Bonet, Summer Walk, and Young Nudy. The most streamed song on the album is “Algorhythm” with 182.5k streams and the least streamed is “Why Go To The Party” with 5.5k streams. On albumoftheyear.org it has a score of 80 out of 100. The album has some great scores so the album did very well this was Donald Glover 2nd to last album as Childish Gambino and people could not miss on this the album great music production.
All these hip-hops albums had great ratings and reviews.
These are the sources I used for my piece: genius.com, Pitchfork.com, hiphopdx.com, and albumoftheyear.org.
