1993 in hip hop music

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

List of years in hip hop music

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 3 Brand Nubian In God We Trust
Strickly Roots Strickly Friends (Begs No Friends)
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 2 B-Legit Tryin' to Get a Buck
March 9 Bloods & Crips Bangin' on Wax
Geto Boys Till Death Do Us Part
March 16 Kid Rock The Polyfuze Method
March 23 Ant Banks Sittin' on Somethin' Phat
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 13 Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell
The Beatnuts Intoxicated Demons
K-Rino Stories from the Black Book
April 16 Suga-T It's All Good
April 20 C-Bo Gas Chamber
Tim Dog Do or Die
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
Y'all So Stupid Van Full of Pakistans
Knucklehedz Stricktly Savage
May 31 Mac Dre The Best of Mac Dre
June 1 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Faces of Death
DMG Rigormortiz
June 7 D-Shot The Shot Calla
June 8 Luke In the Nude
June 15 Esham KKKill the Fetus
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
July 6 Akinyele Vagina Diner
Ganksta N-I-P Psychic Thoughts (Are What I Conceive?)
July 13 Da King & I Contemporary Jeep Music
Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs Roxbury 02119
JT the Bigga Figga Playaz N the Game
Mac Mall Illegal Business?
Rumpletilskinz What Is a Rumpletilskin?
July 16 Insane Clown Posse Beverly Kills 50187
July 20 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
Tag Team Whoomp! (There It Is)
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
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
September 23 A.L.T. Stone Cold World
September 28 Hi-C Swing'n
KRS-One Return of the Boom Bap
Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity
Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords
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
October 30 Lighter Shade Of Brown Brown & Proud
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
Blood of Abraham Future Profits
MC Ren Shock of the Hour
Queen Latifah Black Reign
November 23 Snoop 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
Us3 Hand on the Torch
Unknown 187 Fac The U.N.E.
Unknown Pooh-Man Judgement Day
Unknown San Quinn Young Baby Boy (Don't Cross Me)
Unknown Dru Down Fools from the Streets
Unknown Success-n-Effect Drive-by of Uh Revolutionist
Unknown MF911 Idol, The Bloodsport
Unknown Broken English Klik Broken English Klik
Unknown Chief Groovy Loo And The Chosen Tribe Got 'Em Running Scared
Unknown Get Some Crew Come Get Some
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 (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 Strictly for My N.I.G.G.A.Z 2Pac 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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