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

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

Descendants of Cain

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

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

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