1994 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 1994.

Released albums

Release Date Artist Album
January 4 Frankie Cutlass The Frankie Cutlass Show
January 11 No Description Given Game and the Player
Shadz of Lingo A View To A Kill
Sham & The Professor Split Personalities
January 18 Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs Roxbury 02119
Kurious A Constipated Monkey
Yaggfu Front Action Packed Adventure
February 1 Casual Fear Itself
Coughee Brothaz Fadanuf Fa Erybody!!
Fugees Blunted on Reality
Schoolly D Welcome to America
February 8 Beastie Boys Some Old Bullshit
Down South Lost In Brooklyn
A.D.O.R. The Concrete
March 8 Gang Starr Hard to Earn
Insane Clown Posse Ringmaster
March 15 Maestro Fresh-Wes Naaah, Dis Kid Can't Be from Canada?!!
March 22 DFC Things in tha Hood
Vanilla Ice Mind Blowin'
Main Source F*ck What You Think
March 29 Kool G Rap Killer Kuts
April 5 The Roots From the Ground Up
M.O.P. To the Death
April 12 Mystidious Misfitss A Who Dat?
April 19 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five
Nas Illmatic
Shyheim AKA the Rugged Child
April 26 OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
May 10 Saafir Boxcar Sessions
May 17 Papa Chuk The Badlands
Kirk Makin' Moves
May 24 Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East
Ahmad Ahmad
Master P The Ghetto's Tryin' to Kill Me!
8Ball & MJG On the Outside Looking In
May 31 Beastie Boys Ill Communication
June 7 MC Breed Funkafied
Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era
June 14 Da Bush Babees Ambushed
June 21 The Beatnuts Street Level
June 28 Nice & Smooth Jewel of the Nile
Da Brat Funkdafied
Big Mike Somethin' Serious
July 1 Biz Markie Biz's Baddest Beats
July 12 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin on ah Come Up
Above the Law Uncle Sam's Curse
July 19 Coolio It Takes a Thief
MC Eiht We Come Strapped
August 2 Ill Al Skratch Creep Wit' Me
August 5 Insane Clown Posse The Terror Wheel
August 9 Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep
Boogiemonsters Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album
August 16 Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda
August 23 Public Enemy Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age
August 30 UGK Super Tight
The Legion Theme + Echo = Krill
September 6 The Lady of Rage Afro Puffs
September 13 Big Daddy Kane Daddy's Home
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Break of Dawn
September 20 Dr. Dre Concrete Roots
Da Youngsta's No Mercy
September 24 Craig Mack Project: Funk da World
September 27 PMD Shade Business
October 4 Paris Guerrilla Funk
October 11 Thug Life Thug Life: Volume 1
October 15 Death Row Murder Was the Case
October 18 Digable Planets Blowout Comb
O.C. Word...Life
Twista Resurrection
Scientifik Criminal
Scarface The Diary
October 25 Common Resurrection[1]
Fu-Schnickens Nervous Breakdown
Willie D Play Witcha Mama
October 31 Da Lench Mob Planet of da Apes
November 1 Brand Nubian Everything is Everything
Lords of the Underground Keepers of the Funk
November 8 Kool Moe Dee Interlude
Pete Rock & CL Smooth The Main Ingredient
November 15 Method Man Tical
November 22 Ice Cube Bootlegs & B-Sides
Redman Dare Iz a Darkside
Sha-Key A Head Nadda's Journey To Adidi Skizm
Slick Rick Behind Bars
November 25 Triple 6 Mafia Smoked Out, Loced Out
December 6 Black Sheep Non-Fiction
Insane Clown Posse A Carnival Christmas

Highest-charting singles

Hip hop singles which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100
Title Artist Peak position
"Regulate" Warren G feat. Nate Dogg 2
"Fantastic Voyage" Coolio 3
"What a Man" Salt-N-Pepa feat. En Vogue 3
"Funkdafied" Da Brat 6
"Getto Jam" Domino 7
"Gin and Juice" Snoop Dogg 8
"Tootsee Roll" 69 Boyz 8
"Flava in Ya Ear" Craig Mack 9
"This D.J." Warren G 9
"U Better Recognize" Sam Sneed 16
"Got Me Waiting" Heavy D 20
"Thuggish Ruggish Bone" Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 22
"Bop Gun (One Nation)" Ice Cube feat. George Clinton 23
"Born to Roll" Masta Ace Incorporated 23
"Back in the Day" Ahmad 26
"Pumps and a Bump" MC Hammer 26
"Juicy" The Notorious B.I.G. 27
"Sweet Potatoe Pie" Domino 27
"You Know How We Do It" Ice Cube 30
"None of Your Business" Salt-N-Pepa 32
"Heaven 'n Hell" Salt-N-Pepa 32
"Give It Up" Public Enemy 33
"Playaz Club" Rappin' 4-Tay 36
"Get Down" Craig Mack 37
"Fa All Y'all" Da Brat 37
"I Seen a Man Die" Scarface 37
"Player's Ball" Outkast 37
"Nuttin' But Love" Heavy D 40

Highest first-week sales

List of top ten albums with the highest first-week home market sales of 1994
Number Album Artist 1st-week sales 1st-week position Refs
1 Murder Was the Case Various Artist 329,000 1 West Coast Hip Hop
2 Creepin on ah Come Up Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 220,000 12 Midwest Hip Hop
3 Regulate... G Funk Era Warren G 176,000 2 West Coast Hip Hop
4 Tical Method Man 120,000 4 East Coast Hip Hop

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Resurrection - Common | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
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