1988 in hip hop music
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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1988.
Released albums[]
| Release Date[1] | Artist | Album |
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| February 17 | Geto Boys | Making Trouble |
| February 23 | Biz Markie | Goin' Off |
| March 29 | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper |
| April 17 | Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five | On the Strength |
| May 17 | Run-D.M.C. | Tougher Than Leather |
| May 31 | Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew | The World's Greatest Entertainer |
| Boogie Down Productions | By All Means Necessary | |
| June 7 | Audio Two | What More Can I Say? |
| EPMD | Strictly Business | |
| June 15 | J.J. Fad | Supersonic |
| June 21 | Stetsasonic | In Full Gear |
| June 28 | Big Daddy Kane | Long Live the Kane |
| Public Enemy | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | |
| July 1 | The Fat Boys | Coming Back Hard Again |
| July 26 | Eric B. & Rakim | Follow the Leader |
| Salt-n-Pepa | A Salt with a Deadly Pepa | |
| August 8 | N.W.A | Straight Outta Compton |
| August 17 | 2 Live Crew | Move Somethin' |
| September 1 | Sir Mix-A-Lot | Swass |
| September 13 | Eazy-E | Eazy-Duz-It |
| Ice-T | Power | |
| MC Lyte | Lyte as a Rock | |
| Steady B | Let the Hustlers Play | |
| September 20 | Marley Marl | In Control, Volume 1 |
| Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock | It Takes Two | |
| September 28 | MC Hammer | Let's Get It Started |
| October 4 | Ultramagnetic MC's | Critical Beatdown |
| October 7 | Boogie Boys | Romeo Knight |
| October 21 | Kid 'n Play | 2 Hype |
| October 25 | MC Shan | Born to be Wild |
| November 1 | Slick Rick | The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| November 8 | Jungle Brothers | Straight out the Jungle |
| November 15 | King T | Act a Fool |
| November 22 | Lakim Shabazz | Pure Righteousness |
| December 15 | Various Artists | The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor |
| Unknown | Alliance | We Could Get Used To This |
| Unknown | Busy Bee Starski | Running Thangs |
| Unknown | Kurtis Blow | Back By Popular Demand |
| Unknown | Three Times Dope | Original Stylin' |
| Unknown | Boot the Booty | |
| Unknown | Derek B | Bullet From a Gun |
| unknown | Michael Peace | Rappin' Bold |
| Unknown | MC Shy D | Comin' Correct in 88 |
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| Unknown | The 7A3 | Coolin' In Cali |
| Unknown | Tuff Crew | Danger Zone |
| Unknown | Doin' Damage | |
| Unknown | Dynamite | |
| Unknown | Raheem | The Vigilante |
| Unknown | Mantronix | In Full Effect |
| Unknown | Girls I Got 'Em Locked | |
| Unknown | K-9 Posse | |
| Unknown | Rodney-O & Joe Cooley | Me and Joe |
| Unknown | Cold Crush Brothers | Troopers |
| Unknown | Nice & Hard | |
| Unknown | The Krown Rulers | Paper Chase |
| Unknown | Various Artists | Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through |
| Unknown | Rock This Planet | |
| Unknown | The Skinny Boys | Skinny (They Can't Get Enough) |
| Unknown | Schoolly D | Smoke Some Kill |
| Unknown | Tall Dark & Handsome | |
| Unknown | Original Concept | Straight From the Basement of Kooley High! |
| Unknown | Where's the Party At? | |
| Unknown | Chubb Rock | Chubb Rock (featuring Howie Tee) |
| Unknown | Whistle | Transformation |
| Unknown | Our Time Has Come |
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