1996 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 1996.
Released albums[]
Release Date[1] | Artist | Album | ||
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January 9 | Kid Rock | Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp | ||
The Brotherhood | Elementalz | |||
January 23 | The D.O.C. | Helter Skelter | ||
Speech | Speech | |||
January 30 | Suga-T | Paper Chasin' | ||
Eazy-E | Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton | |||
February 6 | Dark Sun Riders | Seeds of Evolution | ||
February 13 | 2Pac | All Eyez on Me | ||
Fugees | The Score | |||
Mad Skillz | From Where??? | |||
February 20 | Ganksta N-I-P | Psychotic Genius | ||
Lord Finesse | Awakening | |||
March 5 | The Conscious Daughters | Gamers | ||
March 12 | Plains of Fascination | Join the Ranks | ||
March 19 | Bahamadia | Kollage | ||
Rappin' 4-Tay | Off Parole | |||
Smoothe da Hustler | Once Upon a Time in America | |||
March 26 | Busta Rhymes | The Coming | ||
Cella Dwellas | Realms 'n Reality | |||
DJ Yella | One Mo Nigga ta Go | |||
April | DJ Kool | Let Me Clear My Throat | ||
April 2 | Beastie Boys | The In Sound From Way Out! | ||
Geto Boys | The Resurrection | |||
April 9 | MC Eiht | Death Threatz | ||
MC Ren | The Villain in Black | |||
Chino XL | Here to Save You All | |||
April 16 | Master P | Ice Cream Man | ||
April 23 | Mac Mall | Untouchable | ||
April 24 | Esham | Dead Flowerz | ||
April 30 | Celly Cel | Killa Kali | ||
May 7 | Kool Keith | Dr. Octagonecologyst | ||
May 14 | Luke | Uncle Luke | ||
MC Breed | To Da Beat Ch'all | |||
Real Live | The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama | |||
May 15 | Messy Marv | Messy Situationz | ||
May 21 | Dr. Dre | First Round Knock Out | ||
Too $hort | Gettin' It (Album Number Ten) | |||
May 28 | Shyheim | The Lost Generation | ||
Pete Miser | What It Be... | |||
June 1 | People Without Shoes | Thoughts of an Optimist | ||
June 4 | Delinquent Habits | Delinquent Habits | ||
Digital Underground | Future Rhythm | |||
Lost Boyz | Legal Drug Money | |||
Ice-T | Ice-T VI: Return of the Real | |||
Kool G Rap | Rated XXX | |||
June 10 | Company Flow | Funcrusher | ||
June 11 | Heather B | Takin' Mine | ||
Insane Clown Posse | Tunnel of Love | |||
June 18 | Heltah Skeltah | Nocturnal | ||
June 25 | Jay-Z | Reasonable Doubt | ||
Punk Barbarians | Sex, Props, Cream... And The Drama In Between | |||
July 2 | Crucial Conflict | The Final Tic | ||
De La Soul | Stakes Is High | |||
N.W.A | Greatest Hits | |||
Nas | It Was Written | |||
July 9 | New Kingdom | Paradise Don't Come Cheap | ||
July 15 | Funk Mobb | It Ain't 4 Play | ||
Al' Tariq | God Connections | |||
July 16 | Sadat X | Wild Cowboys | ||
July 23 | 11/5 | A-1 Yola | ||
July 30 | A Tribe Called Quest | Beats, Rhymes and Life | ||
Mr. Mike | Wicked Wayz | |||
UGK | Ridin' Dirty | |||
August 6 | Marvaless | Wiccked | ||
Nine | Cloud 9 | |||
August 13 | Akinyele | Put It In Your Mouth | ||
Blahzay Blahzay | Blah Blah Blah | |||
Cypress Hill | Unreleased and Revamped | |||
August 20 | Insane Poetry | Blacc Plague | ||
Paperboy | City to City | |||
Silkk | The Shocker | |||
August 27 | A+ | Latch Key Child | ||
Passion | Baller's Lady | |||
MC Lyte | Bad As I Wanna B | |||
OutKast | ATLiens | |||
September 3 | Do or Die | Picture This | ||
Dru Down | Can You Feel Me | |||
September 17 | 3-2 | The Wicked Buddah Baby | ||
Whodini | Six | |||
September 24 | Dr. Dre | Back 'n the Day | ||
The Dayton Family | F.B.I. (Fuck Being Indicted) | |||
The Roots | Illadelph Halflife | |||
Raw Breed | Killa Instinct | |||
October 1 | Ras Kass | Soul on Ice | ||
October 11 | Grav | Down to Earth | ||
October 15 | Da Bush Babees | Gravity | ||
Jeru the Damaja | Wrath of the Math | |||
Poor Righteous Teachers | The New World Order | |||
Xzibit | At the Speed of Life | |||
October 22 | Westside Connection | Bow Down | ||
PMD | Business is Business | |||
M.O.P. | Firing Squad | |||
House of Pain | Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again | |||
Above the Law | Time Will Reveal | |||
October 29 | Black Moon | Diggin' In Dah Vaults | ||
Da Brat | Anuthatantrum | |||
E-40 | Tha Hall of Game | |||
Ghostface Killah | Ironman | |||
O.G.C. | Da Storm | |||
Yo-Yo | Total Control | |||
November 5 | LL Cool J | All World: Greatest Hits | ||
Makaveli (formerly 2Pac) | The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory | |||
Tela | Piece of Mind | |||
November 12 | Eminem | Infinite | ||
Lil' Kim | Hard Core | |||
Snoop Doggy Dogg | Tha Doggfather | |||
November 19 | The Almighty RSO | Doomsday: Forever RSO | ||
DJ Shadow | Endtroducing..... | |||
Flesh-N-Bone | T.H.U.G.S. (Trues Humbly United Gathering Souls) | |||
Foxy Brown | Ill Na Na | |||
Mobb Deep | Hell on Earth | |||
Shaquille O'Neal | You Can't Stop the Reign | |||
November 26 | Aftermath Entertainment | Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath | ||
B-Legit | The Hemp Museum | |||
Keith Murray | Enigma | |||
B.G. | Chopper City | |||
December 3 | Three 6 Mafia | Chapter 1: The End | ||
December 10 | Redman | Muddy Waters | ||
Big Noyd | Episodes of a Hustla | Unknown | San Quinn | The Hustle Continues |
Unknown | Deadringaz | New Ringa Order | ||
Unknown | Smoothe Da Hustler | Once Upon A Time In America | ||
Unknown | Insane Clown Posse | Tunnel of Love (EP) | ||
Unknown | Young Lay | Black 'N Dangerous | ||
Unknown | Ill Biskits | Chronicles of Two Losers: First Edition |
Highest first-week sales[]
Number | Album | Artist | 1st-week sales | 1st-week position | Genre |
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1 | The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory | 2Pac | 664,000 | 1 | West Coast hip hop |
2 | All Eyez On Me | 566,500 | 1 | ||
3 | Tha Doggfather | Snoop Doggy Dogg | 470,971 | 1 | |
4 | It Was Written | Nas | 268,000 | 1 | East Coast hip hop |
5 | The Score | Fugees | 205,500 | 1 |
See also[]
- Last article: 1995 in hip hop music
- Next article: 1997 in hip hop music
References[]
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