1993 in hip-hop

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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1993.

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Released albums

Release Date [1] ArtistAlbum
January 1 Professor X the Overseer Puss 'N Boots (The Struggle Continues...)
January 12Raw BreedLune Tunz
MadstyleBloodrush
January 26 King T Tha Triflin' Album
Paperboy The Nine Yards
February 2 Brand Nubian In God We Trust
Strickly RootsStrickly 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 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 KapLook 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-RinoStories from the Black Book
Capital TaxThe 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 KilkBrokin 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 25 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
Knucklehedz Stricktly Savage
May 28 B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e Faces of Death
June Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs Roxbury 02119
June 1 DMG Rigormortiz
Top Authority Somethin' To Blaze To
June 7 D-Shot The Shot Calla
June 15 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 Candyman I Thought U Knew
GumboDropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber
Super Lover Cee & Casanova RudBlow 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 FunkMesanjarz 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
RumpletilskinzWhat 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
ThreatSickinnahead
Splack PackUhh!! 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 InvestigatorsRe-Act Like Ya Knew
Hoodratz 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
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
JamalskiRoughneck Reality
K7 Swing Batta Swing
Brotha Lynch Hung 24 Deep
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
November 10Too 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
UnknownMF911Idol, The Bloodsport
UnknownChief Groovy Loo And The Chosen TribeGot 'Em Running Scared
UnknownGet Some CrewCome Get Some
UnknownSplack Pack featuring Kidd MoneyUhh Ohh
Unknown Kool Keith and Godfather Don Cenobites LP

Highest-charting singles

Hip hop singles which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100
TitleArtistPeak position
"Informer" Snow feat. MC Shan 1
"Whoomp! (There It Is)" Tag Team 2
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg
"Slam" Onyx 4
"Shoop" Salt-N-Pepa
"Mr. Wendal" Arrested Development 6
"Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')"Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg8
"Hip Hop Hooray" Naughty by Nature
"Ditty" Paperboy 10
"I Get Around" 2Pac featuring Digital Underground 11
"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
"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
"Insane in the Brain" Cypress Hill 19
"Girl I've Been Hurt" Snow (musician)
"Alright" Kris Kross
"Check Yo Self"Ice Cube feat. Das EFX 20
"Down with the King" Run-D.M.C. featuring Pete Rock & CL Smooth 21
"Very Special (song)" Big Daddy Kane feat. DJ Spinderella 31
"Let Me Ride"Dr. Dre feat. Jewell & Snoop Doggy Dogg34
"Ruffneck" 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

List of top five albums with the highest first-week home market sales of 1993
NumberAlbumArtist1st-week sales1st-week positionRefs
1 Doggystyle Snoop Doggy Dogg 802,8581West Coast Hip Hop
2 Black Sunday Cypress Hill 261,0001West Coast Hip Hop
3 Lethal Injection Ice Cube 215,0005West Coast Hip Hop
4 It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa Eazy-E 110,6005West Coast Hip Hop

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References

  1. "The Top 125 Hip-Hop Albums of 1993".