1993 in hip hop music

List of years in hip hop music

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

Released albums

Release Date Artist Album
January 12 Heavy D & the Boyz Blue Funk
January 26 King T Tha Triflin' Album
February 3 Brand Nubian In God We Trust
February 9 Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
February 16 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
Kam Neva Again
February 23 Naughty by Nature 19 Naughty III
March 9 Geto Boys Till Death Do Us Part
March 16 Kid Rock The Polyfuze Method
March 23 Ice-T Home Invasion
Monie Love In a Word or 2
March 30 LL Cool J 14 Shots to the Dome
Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords
Onyx Bacdafucup
April 6 The Beatnuts Intoxicated Demons
April 13 Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell
April 27 Freestyle Fellowship Innercity Griots
MC Breed The New Breed
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 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...
May 31 Mac Dre The Best of Mac Dre
June 1 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Faces of Death
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
Intelligent Hoodlum Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum
July 6 Raw Breed Lune Tunz
July 13 Mac Mall Illegal Business?
Insane Clown Posse Beverly Kills 50187
Rumpletilskinz What Is a Rumpletilskin?
July 20 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
July 27 Fat Joe Represent
August 1 8Ball & MJG Comin' Out Hard
August 3 Kris Kross Da Bomb
August 10 Ultramagnetic MCs The Four Horsemen
August 17 Scarface The World Is Yours
August 24 Tha Alkaholiks 21 & Over
Illegal The Untold Truth
B-Legit Tryin' to Get a Buck
September 14 Poor Righteous Teachers Black Business
September 21 De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate
September 28 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 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
November 9 A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
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 Das EFX Straight Up Sewaside
MC Ren Shock of the Hour
Queen Latifah Black Reign
November 23 Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Del the Funky Homosapien No Need for Alarm
December 7 Ice Cube Lethal Injection
December 21 Jodeci Diary of a Mad Band
Us3 Hand on the Torch

Highest-charting singles

Hip hop singles which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100
Title Artist Peak position
"Informer (song)" Snow (musician) feat. MC Shan 1
"Whoomp! (There It Is)" Tag Team (group) 2
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg 2
"Slam (Onyx song)" Onyx (group) 4
"Shoop (song)" Salt-N-Pepa 4
"Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg 8
"What's My Name? (Snoop Doggy Dogg song)" Snoop Dogg 8
"Hip Hop Hooray" Naughty by Nature 8
"Ditty (Paperboy song)" Paperboy (rapper) 10
"I Get Around (Tupac Shakur song)" 2Pac 11
"Keep Ya Head Up" 2Pac 12
"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
"Insane in the Brain" Cypress Hill 19
"Girl I've Been Hurt" Snow (musician) 19
"Alright (Kris Kross song)" Kris Kross 19
"Check Yo Self" Ice Cube feat. Das EFX 20
"Down with the King (song)" Run-D.M.C. feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth 21
"Very Special (song)" Big Daddy Kane feat. DJ Spinderella 31
"Let Me Ride" Dr. Dre feat. Jewell & Snoop Dogg 34
"Ruffneck (song)" MC Lyte 35
"(I Know I Got) Skillz" Shaquille O'Neal feat. Def Jef 35
"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 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

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