Kendrick Lamar
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With over 29 million albums sold, London-based Dido returns with her strongest album yet, an album of finely, self-penned songs and soul-baring pop with electro, folk, hip hop, ambient and dance fusions. Collaborations with Brian Eno, Jeff Bhasker, Rick Nowels and Greg Kurstin. The first single is No Freedom.
10) Starboy
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The Weeknd releases the highly anticipated follow-up to his Grammy Award-winning album Beauty Behind the Madness. The first single, which is also the title track, features Daft Punk.
11) Ctrl
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Acclaimed alternative R & B artist SZA releases a brand new album. The first single, Love Galore, features Travis Scott. The album also includes the track Drew Barrymore and appearances from Kendrick Lamar and RZA.
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The Brookllyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most lyrically-gifted, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap's most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with political activists and his genre-straddling work with ldle Warship and others caused Kweli to realize that he was limited in a sense, a prisoner of sorts of his won success.
15) You're dead!
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Multitalented artist and producer Flying Lotus looks at the unknown of the afterlife with a unique perspective that brings together technological innovation and musical virtuosity. It is a mind-expanding effort that shows that the end is just a beginning.
17) Drunk
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Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, returns with his follow-up to 2015's The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam. The latest album is released on Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label and features production from Flying Lotus himself. After attaining national attention following his Grammy Award-winning collaborations on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, Bruner delivers arguably his most ambitious work to date.
19) Victory lap
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In the works since 2013, Nipsey Hussle releases his highly anticipated debut album.
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We Don't Trust you arrived as a celebration of the historic partnership of two culture-shifting legends at the peak of their powers, nearly breaking the internet in its wake. Future and Metro Boomin's latest collaborations are a continuation of a musical legacy that dates back to "Karate Chop," an electric 2013 single that birthed the most dynastic hip-hop duo of the 2010s. They'd fortify their connection with tracks like 2015's "Jumpman" (with Drake)...