Step Off! Magazine’s Top 5 Hip-Hop Albums of 2021

With yet another year gone by we want to thank you all again for taking our online reader poll for the top Hip-Hop album of 2021 and for helping us celebrate our fifth full year of operation here at Step Off! Magazine. This year reader’s choice award for top album of 2022 goes to Apathy’s Where the River Meets the Sea, with an overwhelming majority of twenty-eight percent of readers voting it as their favorite album of 2022. Scoring a four-way tie with 17.8% each was Nas’ King’s Disease II, J. Cole’s The Off-Season, Vinnie Paz’s Burn Everything That Bears Your Name, and An Evening With Silk Sonic by Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars. Thank you to all of the readers who took part in our poll, we hope that next year you will all join us again to not only rank the top albums of 2022! Below we have listed our very own top Hip-Hop albums of 2021. Happy New Years Step Off! fam, we look forward to seeing you all for another prosperous year in 2022!