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| Title | Artist | Peak position |
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| "Gangsta's Paradise" | Coolio | 1 |
| "One More Chance" | The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Faith Evans & Mary J. Blige | 2 |
| "Hey Lover" | LL Cool J featuring Boyz II Men | 3 |
| "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" | Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige | |
| "Big Poppa" | The Notorious B.I.G. | 6 |
| "I Got 5 on It" | Luniz featuring Michael Marshall | 8 |
| "Dear Mama" | 2Pac | 9 |
| "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" | Dr. Dre | 10 |
| "Player's Anthem" | Junior M.A.F.I.A. | 13 |
| "How High" | Method Man & Redman | |
| "I Wish" | Skee-Lo | |
| "1st of tha Month" | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | 14 |
| "Feel Me Flow" | Naughty by Nature | 17 |
| "Too Hot" | Coolio | 24 |
| "Sugar Hill" | AZ | 25 |
| "Give It 2 You" | Da Brat | 26 |
| "Ice Cream" | Raekwon | 37 |
| "I Seen a Man Die" | Scarface |
| Number | Album | Artist | 1st-week sales | 1st-week position | Refs |
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| 1 | E. 1999 Eternal | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | 307,000 | 1 | Midwest Hip Hop |
| 2 | Dogg Food | Tha Dogg Pound | 277,500 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
| 3 | Me Against the World | 2Pac | 240,000 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
| 4 | Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom | Cypress Hill | 142,000 | 3 | West Coast Hip Hop |
| 5 | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | Raekwon | 130,000 | 4 | East Coast Hip Hop |
| 6 | Friday | Various Artists | 123,000 | 1 | West Coast Hip Hop |
| 7 | Cocktails | Too Short | 101,000 | 6 | West Coast Hip Hop |
| 8 | On Top of the World | 8Ball & MJG | 83,000 | 8 | Southern Hip Hop |
| 9 | Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | Ol' Dirty Bastard | 81,000 | 7 | East Coast Hip Hop |
| 10 | Mr. Smith | LL Cool J | 80,000 | 20 | East Coast Hip Hop |
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Greek hip hop, is the chief genre of rap music in Greece.
East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in The Bronx, New York City.
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records, the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, and others.
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami—five cities which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.
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Anthony Cruz, better known by his stage name AZ, is an American rapper. Best known for his affiliation with hometown native and fellow East Coast rapper Nas, they formed the New York City-based hip hop group the Firm with Foxy Brown, Cormega and Nature in 1996. Cruz first saw recognition for his guest appearance on Nas' 1994 single "Life's a Bitch" from his album Illmatic (1994). Cruz was then signed by EMI to release his debut studio album, Doe or Die (1995), which was met with critical acclaim. Its lead single, "Sugar Hill" peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Moreover, The Firm's sole album (1997) peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart despite unfavorable critical response; the group disbanded two years later.
Lamont Coleman, known professionally as Big L, was an American rapper. Emerging from Harlem in New York City in 1992, Big L became known among underground hip-hop fans for his freestyling ability. He was eventually signed to Columbia Records, where, in 1995, he released his debut album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous. On February 15, 1999, he was fatally shot nine times in a drive-by shooting in Harlem.
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Hip-hop or hip hop, also known as rap, and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre consisting of stylized rhythmic music that often accompanies rapping, a rhythmic delivery of poetic speech. According to the professor Asante of African American studies at Temple University, "hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own". The music developed as part of the broader hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, breakdancing, and graffiti art. While often used to refer solely to rapping and rap music, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of the culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
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