1993 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 1993.
Released albums[]
Release Date[1] | Artist | Album |
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January 1 | Professor X the Overseer | Puss 'N Boots (The Struggle Continues...) |
January 12 | Heavy D & the Boyz | Blue Funk |
Raw Breed | Lune Tunz | |
Madstyle | Bloodrush | |
January 26 | King T | Tha Triflin' Album |
February 2 | Brand Nubian | In God We Trust |
Strickly Roots | Strickly Friends (Begs No Friends) | |
Above the Law | Black Mafia Life | |
Young Black Teenagers | Dead Enz Kidz Doin' Lifetime Bidz | |
February 9 | Digable Planets | Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
Apache | Apache Ain't Shit | |
February 16 | 2Pac | Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... |
Kam | Neva Again | |
February 23 | Naughty by Nature | 19 Naughty III |
March 2 | B-Legit | Tryin' to Get a Buck |
March 9 | Bloods & Crips | Bangin' on Wax |
Geto Boys | Till Death Do Us Part | |
Mad Kap | Look Ma Duke, No Hands | |
March 16 | Kid Rock | The Polyfuze Method |
March 23 | Ant Banks | Sittin' on Somethin' Phat |
Ice-T | Home Invasion | |
Just-Ice | Gun Talk | |
Monie Love | In a Word or 2 | |
March 30 | LL Cool J | 14 Shots to the Dome |
Lords of the Underground | Here Come the Lords | |
Onyx | Bacdafucup | |
April 13 | Mobb Deep | Juvenile Hell |
The Beatnuts | Intoxicated Demons | |
Capital Tax | The Swoll Package | |
April 16 | Suga-T | It's All Good |
April 20 | C-Bo | Gas Chamber |
Tim Dog | Do or Die | |
Da Youngsta's | The Aftermath | |
Brokin English Kilk | Brokin English Kilk | |
April 27 | Freestyle Fellowship | Innercity Griots |
MC Breed | The New Breed | |
Prime Minister Pete Nice and Daddy Rich | Dust to Dust | |
May 4 | Run-D.M.C. | Down with the King |
Masta Ace Incorporated | SlaughtaHouse | |
Funkdoobiest | Which Doobie U B? | |
The Coup | Kill My Landlord | |
Trends of Culture | Trendz | |
May 18 | 5th Ward Boyz | Ghetto Dope |
Guru | Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 | |
Total Devastation | Legalize It! | |
May 19 | The Roots | Organix |
May 25 | Big Daddy Kane | Looks Like a Job For... |
Boss | Born Gangstaz | |
Y'all So Stupid | Van Full of Pakistans | |
Knucklehedz | Stricktly Savage | |
May 31 | Mac Dre | The Best of Mac Dre |
June 1 | B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e | Faces of Death |
DMG | Rigormortiz | |
June 7 | D-Shot | The Shot Calla |
June 8 | Luke | In the Nude |
June 15 | Esham | KKKill the Fetus |
June 17 | Dre Dog | The New Jim Jones |
June 22 | Biz Markie | All Samples Cleared! |
Jungle Brothers | J Beez wit the Remedy | |
MC Lyte | Ain't No Other | |
Yo-Yo | You Better Ask Somebody | |
Intelligent Hoodlum | Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum | |
June 25 | Poison Clan | Ruff Town Behavior |
June 29 | Candyman | I Thought U Knew |
July 1 | Basehead | Not in Kansas Anymore |
July 6 | Akinyele | Vagina Diner |
Ganksta N-I-P | Psychic Thoughts (Are What I Conceive?) | |
Mesanjarz of Funk | Mesanjarz of Funk | |
July 13 | Da King & I | Contemporary Jeep Music |
Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs | Roxbury 02119 | |
JT the Bigga Figga | Playaz N the Game | |
Mac Mall | Illegal Business? | |
Rumpletilskinz | What Is a Rumpletilskin? | |
July 16 | Insane Clown Posse | Beverly Kills 50187 |
July 20 | Cypress Hill | Black Sunday |
Tag Team | Whoomp! (There It Is) | |
Sickinnahead | ||
July 27 | Fat Joe da Gangsta | Represent |
August 1 | 8Ball & MJG | Comin' Out Hard |
August 3 | Kris Kross | Da Bomb |
August 10 | Ultramagnetic MCs | The Four Horsemen |
August 17 | Scarface | The World Is Yours |
August 24 | Tha Alkaholiks | 21 & Over |
Illegal | The Untold Truth | |
Private Investigators | Re-Act Like Ya Knew | |
Sneeke Muthafukaz | ||
September 14 | Poor Righteous Teachers | Black Business |
September 21 | A.L.T. | Stone Cold World |
Another Bad Creation | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It | |
De La Soul | Buhloone Mindstate | |
YZ | The Ghetto's Been Good to Me | |
September 28 | Hi-C | Swing'n |
KRS-One | Return of the Boom Bap | |
Souls of Mischief | 93 'til Infinity | |
Lords of the Underground | Here Come the Lords | |
Spice 1 | 187 He Wrote | |
October 5 | Digital Underground | The Body-Hat Syndrome |
October 11 | Totally Insane | Goin' Insane |
October 12 | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | Code Red |
Salt-n-Pepa | Very Necessary | |
Leaders of the New School | T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye) | |
October 19 | Black Moon | Enta da Stage |
Eazy-E | It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa | |
Erick Sermon | No Pressure | |
October 26 | Shaquille O'Neal | Shaq Diesel |
Too Short | Get in Where You Fit In | |
Give 'Em The Finger | ||
October 30 | Lighter Shade Of Brown | Brown & Proud |
November 2 | Daddy-O | You Can Be A Daddy, But Never Daddy-O |
November 9 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders |
Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | |
Jamalski | Roughneck Reality | |
November 10 | E-40 | Federal |
Too Short | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983-1988 | |
November 16 | Das EFX | Straight Up Sewaside |
Blood of Abraham | Future Profits | |
MC Ren | Shock of the Hour | |
Queen Latifah | Black Reign | |
November 23 | Snoop Doggy Dogg | Doggystyle |
Del the Funky Homosapien | No Need for Alarm | |
November 29 | Mac Dre | Young Black Brotha |
November 30 | The Conscious Daughters | Ear to the Street |
December 7 | Domino | Domino |
Ice Cube | Lethal Injection | |
December 21 | Jodeci | Diary of a Mad Band |
Us3 | Hand on the Torch | |
Unknown | 187 Fac | The U.N.E. |
Unknown | MC Shy D | The Comeback |
Unknown | Pooh-Man | Judgement Day |
Unknown | San Quinn | Young Baby Boy (Don't Cross Me) |
Unknown | Dru Down | Fools from the Streets |
Unknown | Success-n-Effect | Drive-by of Uh Revolutionist |
Unknown | MF911 | Idol, The Bloodsport |
Unknown | Broken English Klik | Broken English Klik |
Unknown | Chief Groovy Loo And The Chosen Tribe | Got 'Em Running Scared |
Unknown | Get Some Crew | Come Get Some |
Unknown | Kool Keith and Godfather Don | Cenobites LP |
Highest-charting singles[]
Title | Artist | Peak position |
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"Informer (song)" | Snow (musician) feat. MC Shan | 1 |
"Whoomp! (There It Is)" | Tag Team (group) | 2 |
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" | Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg | |
"Slam (Onyx song)" | Onyx (group) | 4 |
"Shoop (song)" | Salt-N-Pepa | |
"Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" | Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg | 8 |
"What's My Name? (Snoop Doggy Dogg song)" | Snoop Doggy Dogg | |
"Hip Hop Hooray" | Naughty by Nature | |
"Ditty (Paperboy song)" | Paperboy (rapper) | 10 |
"I Get Around (Tupac Shakur song)" | 2Pac | 11 |
"Keep Ya Head Up" | 12 | |
"Boom! Shake the Room" | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | 13 |
"I Got a Man" | Positive K | 14 |
"It Was a Good Day" | Ice Cube | 15 |
"Insane in the Brain" | Cypress Hill | 19 |
"Girl I've Been Hurt" | Snow (musician) | |
"Alright (Kris Kross song)" | Kris Kross | |
"Check Yo Self" | Ice Cube feat. Das EFX | 20 |
"Down with the King (song)" | Run-D.M.C. feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth | 21 |
"Very Special (song)" | Big Daddy Kane feat. DJ Spinderella | 31 |
"Let Me Ride" | Dr. Dre feat. Jewell & Snoop Doggy Dogg | 34 |
"Ruffneck (song)" | MC Lyte | 35 |
"(I Know I Got) Skillz" | Shaquille O'Neal feat. Def Jef | |
"What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock)" | Fu-Schnickens | 39 |
"Six Feet Deep" | Geto Boys | 40 |
Highest first-week sales[]
Number | Album | Artist | 1st-week sales | 1st-week position | Refs |
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1 | Doggystyle | Snoop Doggy Dogg | 802,858 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
2 | Black Sunday | Cypress Hill | 261,000 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
3 | Lethal Injection | Ice Cube | 215,000 | 5 | West Coast Hip Hop |
4 | It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa | Eazy-E | 110,600 | 5 | West Coast Hip Hop |
See also[]
- Last article: 1992 in hip hop music
- Next article: 1994 in hip hop music
References[]
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