A Hip Hop Snob's Guide to the Best Music of 2020

Raps and Beats (mostly in order of release date)
Boldy James - Price of Tea in China
Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist - Alfredo
DJ Preservation - Eastern Medicine, Western Illness
Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominique's Nosebleeds 
Westside Gunn - Flygod is an Awesome God
Blu and Exile - Miles
Rush and Jay Nice - Fly Art
Boldy James - Versace Tape
Mach Hommy - Hard Lemonade
Quakers - Quakers II - The Next Wave
Westside Gunn - Who Made the Sunshine
Jay Electronica - Act II
Chuck Strangers - Too Afraid to Dance
Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event 2
Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin - FlySiifu's
Roc Marciano - Mt. Marci
DJ Muggs - Winter

Beats, Hold the Raps (mostly in order of release date)
J. Rocc - Sun Ra(s) G
Juicy the Emissary - Timber
Knxwledge - 1988
Roc Marciano - Pimpstrumentals
Sadhugold - Golden Joe Seasons 1 and 2
Alchemist - Man of Many Hats
Ras G - Raw Fruit 5/6
J. Rocc - Beatitudes
J. Rocc - Original Music
J. Rocc - Turn Me Up Some
Kutmah - A Tribute to Brother Ras G and The Afrikan Space Program
Various Artists - Baker's Dozen XIII
Quakers - Supa K: Heavy Tremors
Dirty Art Club - Gardens
Alchemist - Doctor, Painter, and An Alchemist...
Alchemist - Food Villain
Jazzsoon - Heavy Archives 3
Koreatown Oddity - When Pigs Fly

On Some Other Sh*t
Heliocentrics - Infinity Now
Jazz Sabbath - Jazz Sabbath
El Michels Affair - Adult Themes
Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Khruangbin - Late Night Tales: Khruangbin
Kamall Williams - Wu Hen
Liv.e - Couldn't Wait to Tell You...
Jahari Massamba Unit - Pardon My French
 
Where Did You Come From? (outstanding album from artists I had no idea existed)
Rush and Jay Nice - Fly Art 
Dirty Art Club - Gardens
 
This is How You Make a Beat Tape Award (no track exceeds 2 min, plenty of skits, seamlessness)
Alchemist - Man of Many Hats
Quakers - Supa K: Heavy Tremors
Dirty Art Club - Gardens
Alchemist - Doctor, Painter, and An Alchemist...
Alchemist - Food Villain
Jazzsoon - Heavy Archives 3
Koreatown Oddity - When Pigs Fly 
 
Lil Mixes Award (Music Most Enjoyed by My Daughter)
Dirty Art Club - Gardens
J. Rocc - Sun Ra(s) G
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Khruangbin - Late Night Tales: Khruangbin
Jahari Massamba Unit - Pardon My French
 
Simply On Another Level Award
Roc Marciano 
DJ Muggs

Albums that Inspire Me Award
J. Rocc - Sun Ra(s) G
DJ Muggs - Winter
Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominique's Nosebleeds
Quakers - Supa K: Heavy Tremors
Dirty Art Club - Gardens

Album Would Be Perfect If Not For.... Award
Mt. Marci - The intolerable hook on Wicked Days
Food Villain - Had ALC chosen a different theme
Raw Fruit 5/6 - Had track lengths been edited down
Who Made the Sunshine - Had WSG not force fed his audience Armani Caesar