Year-End Lists

The Thief Next to Jesus

3. The Best Albums of 2024: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
5. Top 50 Albums of 2024: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Complex
9. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: The Fader
13. 30 Best Albums of 2024: The Ringer
14. Top 50 Albums of 2024: The Wire
18. Best Albums of 2024: Stereogum
18. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Our Culture
23. Favorite Albums of 2024: Grace Robins-Somerville
24. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Pitchfork
27. Best Albums of 2024: Obscure Sound
42. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Treble
47. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Paste
48. Top 50 Albums of 2024: Brooklyn Vegan
83. Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

• Best Albums of 2024: Jon Pareles: New York Times
• The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate

A Martyr’s Reward

11. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2021
20. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2021
22. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2021
26. Spin: The 30 Best Albums Of 2021
35. Hanif Abdurraqib: 83 Favorite Albums Of 2021
40. Complex: The Best Albums of 2021
48. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2021

• Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2021
• New York Times: Jon Pareles: Best Albums of 2021

Descendants of Cain

5. Hip Hop Golden Age: The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020
13. Spin: The 30 Best Albums of 2020
33. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2020
35. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
42. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2020
46. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2020
57. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020
79. Hanif Abdurraqib: 93 Favorite Albums Of 2020
83. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2020

• AllMusic: Best Albums of 2020
• Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2020
• New Yorker: Sheldon Pearce: My Thirty Favorite Albums of 2020
• XXL: Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2020

Honor Killed the Samurai

37. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Complex
48. 51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016: Tiny Mix Tapes
60. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
68. Albums of the Year 2016: Crack Magazine

The Night’s Gambit

11. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2013
21. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2013
69. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013

Grief Pedigree

7. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2012

• Albumism: The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s