Top UK Hip Hop albums

Ed Sheeran has been in the music for quite a long time; however it is the year 2011 that became incredibly successful for him. The performer's debut studio long play titled Plus attracted attention of connoisseurs of honest art in no time

Tinie Tempah's debut album Disc-Overy is based on a formula – acknowledge your success at once and sing hymns to fame, women and the opportunities that the young age provides you with

The Streets' third album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, sees him switching up his rapping, twisting out the production and laying open some heartfelt lyrics across its eleven tracks. This is one of the year's most greatly anticipated albums

Overtones is a second album of London MC Just Jack, where he managed to mix a modern pop, disco, funk, house and hip hop and at the same time to keep a cold and true to life atmosphere which is so characteristic for British performers

During the last year Jamie T has committed an incredible jump from the half empty pubs up to the Hot Twenty hit singles and a status of a hope for the British musical scene. His album Panic Prevention is sincere, easy to listen and unpredictable

Example's sophomore effort Won't Go Quietly is a great collection of tracks in his trademark style: wittiness, an ability to say in simple words about important things, ever-present self-irony and an utterly grotesque arrogance

The Streets' fourth record Everything Is Borrowed presents the confessions of a man who decides to think his mistakes over, make a review of his values and in general finally think of life's meaning

Professor Green's debut album Alive Till I'm Dead offers 12 dynamic tracks that can be classified as rap with the elements of pop music in its best traditions

The fifth and the last album by The Streets, released under the title Computers And Blues, will remind Mike Skinner's followers of all highlights og his previous works. A beautiful end to the whole story

Drawing inspiration from hip-hop, house, roots reggae, blues, jazz and calypso, Mattafix has managed to create and perfect sounds, which many past groups have tried and failed. Signs Of A Struggle has 'immediate classic' written all over it