Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)

A jazz-funk-soul opus that won five Grammy Awards including Best Rap Album, To Pimp a Butterfly drew some of the most rapturous critical acclaim any hip-hop album has received — reviews that helped set the stage for Kendrick Lamar's later album DAMN. becoming the first non-classical, non-jazz work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. It is widely considered the most artistically ambitious hip-hop record of the 21st century.