Stereogum’s Top 40 Rap Albums Of 2012
If I'd made a list like this last year, probably 80% of the albums listed would've been free-download mixtapes. There are still plenty of those in the list you'll find below, but there are more actual commercially-available albums than anyone could've expected -- four of the top five, as it happens. Somehow, some way, despite an ongoing music-business apocalypse and ...
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