Here are my picks for noteworthy rap albums of 2019, taken from the vantage point of now. Artists are listed in alphabetical order.
- 2 Chainz – Rap or Go to the League
- Billy Woods – Terror Management
- Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places
- Blu & Oh No – A Long Red Hot Los Angeles
- Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes
- Czardust – The Ra(w) Material
- DaBaby – Baby on Baby
- DaBaby – Kirk
- Danny Brown – Uknowwhatimsayin?
- Denzel Curry – Zuu
- Doja Cat – Hot Pink
- Earl Sweatshirt – Feet of Clay
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana
- Future – Future Hndrxxx presents: The WIZRD
- GoldLink – Diaspora
- Griselda – WWCD
- Gunna – Drip or Drown 2
- Injury Reserve – Injury Reserve
- JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes are Cornballs
- Kevin Gates – I’m Him
- Kool Keith – KEITH
- Little Brother – May the Lord Watch
- Mach-Hommy – Wap Konn Jój!
- Megan Thee Stallion – Fever
- Offset – Father of 4
- Pete Rock – Return of the SP1200
- Pivot Gang – You Can’t Sit with Us
- Polo G – Die a Legend
- Quelle Chris – Guns
- Rapsody – Eve
- Rico Nasty – Anger Management
- S.AL – Strata
- Sada Baby – Bartier Bounty
- Smoke DZA & Benny the Butcher – Statute of Limitations
- Tree & Parallel Thought – The Wild End
- Tyler, the Creator – IGOR
- Westside Gunn – Flygod Is an Awesome God
- YBN Cordae – The Lost Boy
- Young M.A – Herstory in the Making
- Young Thug – So Much Fun