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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
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
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 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 Ant Banks Sittin' on Somethin' Phat
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
Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords
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
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
Havoc & Prodeje Livin' in a Crime Wave
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
Top Authority Somethin' To Blaze To
June 7 D-Shot The Shot Calla
June 8 Luke In the Nude
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
Gumbo Dropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber
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 13 Da King & I Contemporary Jeep Music
Rumpletilskinz What is a Rumpletilskin?
Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs Roxbury 02119
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 8Ball & 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
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
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 E-40 Federal
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

Highest-charting singles

Hip hop singles which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100
Title Artist Peak 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 Dogg 8
"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 Dogg 34
"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
Number Album Artist 1st-week sales 1st-week position Refs
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

References

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