Year-End List: Countdown: 10 Best Rap Albums of 2016

Tribe, Chance, or Kanye? Who earns to honors of best rap album of 2016 from The Musical Hype? Check out our countdown to see who came out on top!

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Tribe, Chance, or Kanye? Who earns to honors of best rap album of 2016 from The Musical Hype? Check out our countdown to see who came out on top!
![Beyoncé, Lemonade [📷: Columbia]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/beyonce-lemonade-parkwood-entertainment-columbia.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Beyoncé (Lemonade), Solange (A Seat at the Table), and Frank Ocean (Blonde) lead the charge of the 20 best R&B albums of 2016.
![Meghan Trainor, Thank You [📷: Epic]](https://themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/meghan-trainor-epic-768x768.jpg)
2016 has had its fair share of respectable, even superb songs. Even so, there have also been some totally awful songs that simply aren’t forgivable.
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Beyoncé (Lemonade), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Skelton Tree), and Solange (A Seat at the Table) lead the charge of the 40 bests albums of 2016.

The 10 albums that grace this list have one thing in common – all are considered to be disappointments in 2016.
The playlist at hand, “10 Songs That’ll Make You Stand Up (Or Nah)!” contains 10 songs that’ll make the listener stand up…or nah!
![Kanye West, The Life of Pablo [📷: G.O.O.D. / Def Jam]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/kanye-west-the-life-of-pablo-def-jam.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Kanye West (“Ultralight Beam”), Lukas Graham (“7 Years”) and The Chainsmokers (“Closer”) highlights the 50 Best Songs of 2016.

Early 59th Annual Grammy Award Predictions: Adele poised for another big night with “Hello” and album ‘25’.
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Grammy nomination reactions: Monumental snubs are few and far between in this year’s group of nominees.

59th Annual Grammy Award nomination predictions: Adele will be nominated in three out of the four big categories (album, record, and song).
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Highly Suspect remain edgy and unapologetic on their highly anticipated sophomore album, The Boy Who Died Wolf.

59th Annual Grammy nomination predictions: Adele (“Hello”) seems like the safest bet for a Record of the Year nomination.