

is an hour of amped-up trap-rap, scored by some of the finest names in the scene (Zaytoven, Dun Deal, C4) and marked by the group’s distinct vocal style: glottal chirps, staccato blasts and triplet rhymes that don’t flow as much as they pummel and punch like machine gun fire. In a year when the New Atlanta dominated hip-hop, Migos seemed to have more than their share of fun. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 1/21) From Cassie’s sultry moans to Young Thug’s manic wails, this list sums up the constant push and pull of rap and R&B in 2013, and hopefully offers a look into what the next year might eventually reveal. So good, in fact, that despite shuttling the missing entries (you’ll probably work out which they are) onto FACT’s ‘proper’ list of top albums, we’re still left with 20 stunning records.

Now it’s time to corral those tapes into an even tighter list, and it hasn’t been easy the sheer quality has been astounding. Sadly, because the internet is, well, the internet, there are far too many tapes popping up each day on DatPiff, Soundcloud, AudioMack and LiveMixTapes for any normal person to actually listen to all of them, so over the year we’ve endeavored to separate the wheat from the chaff each week and find ten worthy of closer inspection.
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You can blame the internet for many things, but the existence of the free mixtape format has to be one of its finest attributes.

We’ll be running the 50 Best Albums of 2013 next week. Note: This feature runs down our 20 favourite mixtapes of 2013, excluding a handful that made it onto our overall best albums list.
