| Release Date [1] | Artist | Album |
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| January 1 | Professor X the Overseer | Puss 'N Boots (The Struggle Continues...) |
| January 12 | Raw Breed | Lune Tunz |
| Madstyle | Bloodrush |
| January 26 | King T | Tha Triflin' Album |
| Paperboy | The Nine Yards |
| 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 |
| Flavor Unit | Roll Wit' Tha Flava |
| February 23 | Naughty by Nature | 19 Naughty III |
| March 2 | Various Artists | CB4 (soundtrack) |
| B-Legit | Tryin' to Get a Buck |
| March 9 | Ant Banks | Sittin' on Somethin' Phat |
| Bloods & Crips | Bangin' on Wax |
| Geto Boys | Till Death Do Us Part |
| Mad Kap | Look Ma Duke, No Hands |
| I.M.P | Back in the Days |
| March 16 | Kid Rock | The Polyfuze Method |
| March 23 | Ice-T | Home Invasion |
| Just-Ice | Gun Talk |
| Monie Love | In a Word or 2 |
| P.M. Dawn | The Bliss Album...? |
| March 30 | LL Cool J | 14 Shots to the Dome |
| Onyx | Bacdafucup |
| April 1 | Marxman | 33 Revolutions per Minute |
| April 13 | Mobb Deep | Juvenile Hell |
| The Beatnuts | Intoxicated Demons |
| K-Rino | Stories from the Black Book |
| 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 |
| Various Artists | Who's the Man? (soundtrack) |
| Brokin English Kilk | Brokin English Kilk |
| Trends of Culture | Trendz |
| 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 |
| May 18 | 5th Ward Boyz | Ghetto Dope |
| Guru | Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| Total Devastation | Legalize It! |
| May 19 | The Roots | Organix |
| May 26 | Big Daddy Kane | Looks Like a Job For... |
| Boss | Born Gangstaz |
| Havoc & Prodeje | Livin' in a Crime Wave |
| Y'all So Stupid | Van Full of Pakistans |
| Various Artists | Menace II Society (soundtrack) |
| Knucklehedz | Stricktly Savage |
| May 28 | B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e | Faces of Death |
| June | Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs | Roxbury 02119 |
| June 2 | DMG | Rigormortiz |
| Top Authority | Somethin' to Blaze To |
| June 7 | D-Shot | The Shot Calla |
| June 16 | Esham | KKKill the Fetus |
| Father MC | Sex Is Law |
| 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 | Various Artists | Poetic Justice (soundtrack) |
| Candyman | I Thought U Knew |
| Gumbo | Dropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber |
| Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud | Blow Up the Spot |
| 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 |
| C.E.B. | Countin' Endless Bank |
| July 8 | Tag Team | Whoomp! (There It Is) |
| July 12 | Luke | In the Nude |
| July 13 | Da King & I | Contemporary Jeep Music |
| Rumpletilskinz | What is a Rumpletilskin? |
| JT the Bigga Figga | Playaz N the Game |
| Mac Mall | Illegal Business? |
| Justin Warfield | My Field Trip to Planet 9 |
| July 16 | Insane Clown Posse | Beverly Kills 50187 |
| July 20 | Cypress Hill | Black Sunday |
| Threat | Sickinnahead |
| Splack Pack | Uhh!! Ohh!! |
| July 27 | Fat Joe da Gangsta | Represent |
| Pooh-Man | Judgement Day |
| August 3 | Kris Kross | Da Bomb |
| August 10 | Ultramagnetic MCs | The Four Horsemen |
| August 17 | Eightball & MJG | Comin' Out Hard |
| Scarface | The World Is Yours |
| August 24 | Tha Alkaholiks | 21 & Over |
| Illegal | The Untold Truth |
| Private Investigators | Re-Act Like Ya Knew |
| Hoodratz | Sneeke Muthafukaz |
| September 14 | Poor Righteous Teachers | Black Business |
| Various Artists | Judgment Night (soundtrack) |
| 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 |
| Lords of the Underground | Here Come the Lords |
| Souls of Mischief | 93 'til Infinity |
| 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 |
| Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard | Give 'Em The Finger |
| November 2 | Daddy-O | You Can Be A Daddy, But Never Daddy-O |
| November 9 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders |
| II D Extreme | II 2 Extreme |
| Jamalski | Roughneck Reality |
| K7 | Swing Batta Swing |
| Brotha Lynch Hung | 24 Deep |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| November 10 | Too Short | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983–1988 |
| November 16 | Blood of Abraham | Future Profits |
| Das EFX | Straight Up Sewaside |
| MC Ren | Shock of the Hour |
| Queen Latifah | Black Reign |
| Us3 | Hand on the Torch |
| 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 |
| Unknown | 187 Fac | The U.N.E. |
| Unknown | MC Shy D | The Comeback |
| Unknown | San Quinn | Young Baby Boy (Don't Cross Me) |
| Unknown | T-Bone | Redeemed Hoodlum |
| Unknown | Dru Down | Fools from the Streets |
| Unknown | Success-n-Effect | Drive-by of Uh Revolutionist |
| Unknown | MF911 | Idol, The Bloodsport |
| Unknown | Chief Groovy Loo And The Chosen Tribe | Got 'Em Running Scared |
| Unknown | Get Some Crew | Come Get Some |
| Unknown | Splack Pack featuring Kidd Money | Uhh Ohh |
| Unknown | Kool Keith and Godfather Don | Cenobites LP |
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