1993 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 1993.

Released albums

Release Date Artist Album
February 16 2Pac Strictly 4 My Niggaz
February 23 Naughty by Nature 19 Naughty III
March 16 Kid Rock The Polyfuze Method
March 19 Geto Boys Till Death Do Us Part
March 23 Ice-T Home Invasion
April 13 Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell
May 4 Run-D.M.C. Down with the King
May 19 The Roots Organix
May 25 Big Daddy Kane Looks Like a Job For...
May 28 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Faces of Death
June 1 LL Cool J 14 Shots to the Dome
June 2 Biz Markie All Samples Cleared!
June 22 MC Lyte Ain't No Other
June 27 Fat Joe Fat Joe
July 20 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
August 1 8Ball & MJG Comin' Out Hard
September 21 De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate
September 27 Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
October 5 Digital Underground The Body-Hat Syndrome
October 12 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Code Red
Salt-n-Pepa Very Necessary
October 19 Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa
Black Moon Enta da Stage
October 23 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 Too Short Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983-1988
November 16 Queen Latifah Black Reign
November 23 Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle
December 7 Ice Cube Lethal Injection
December 21 Jodeci Diary of a Mad Band

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