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5 Essential Hip-Hop Albums You Slept On In 2016

By Bobby Carter,

Kiana Fitzgerald

Published December 17, 2016 at 7:00 AM EST

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Saba's Bucket List Project should have been on more lists.

Bryan Allen Lamb

When the NPR Music team convened to choose the 50 Best Albums Of 2016, we discussed dozens of hip-hop records. In the end, five deserving LPs found a home on the master list. Chance the Rapper's blessings and A Tribe Called Quest's surprising return are consensus picks for good reasons ... but 2016 had so much more to offer. For those that slept, here's five more joints worth celebrating.

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Bas, Too High To Riot ( / Courtesy of the artist)

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Common, Black America Again ( / Courtesy of the artist)

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Duckwrth, I'M UUGLY ( / Courtesy of the artist)

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Pouya, Underground Underdog ( / Courtesy of the artist)

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Saba, Bucket List Project ( / Courtesy of the artist)

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Bobby Carter

Bobby Carter is a leader on the Tiny Desk Concerts team for NPR Music. He's brought an ever growing roster of big names and emerging artists through NPR's HQ to squeeze behind the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen and record standout performances, including Usher, Mac Miller, Noname, Anderson.Paak and H.E.R.

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Kiana Fitzgerald

Kiana Fitzgerald is a freelance music journalist, cultural critic, and DJ. She writes for the world from deep in the heart of Texas.

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