1988 in hip hop music

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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1988.

Released albums

Release Date	Artist	Album
February 17	Audio Two	What More Can I Say?
February 17	Geto Boys	Making Trouble
February 23	Biz Markie	Goin' Off
March 25	Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew	The World's Greatest Entertainer
March 29	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
April 17	Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five	On the Strength
May 31	Boogie Down Productions	By All Means Necessary
June 7	EPMD	Strictly Business
June 21	Big Daddy Kane	Long Live the Kane
June 28	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
August 2	Salt-n-Pepa	A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
August 4	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader
August 8	N.W.A	Straight Outta Compton
August 9	Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock	It Takes Two
September 13	Ice-T	Power
September 16	Eazy-E	Eazy-Duz-It
September 16	Run-D.M.C.	Tougher Than Leather
September 17	MC Lyte	Lyte as a Rock
November 3	Slick Rick	The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
November 8	Jungle Brothers	Straight Out The Jungle
Unknown	Lakim Shabazz	Pure Righteousness