1998 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 1998.

Released albums

Release Date Artist Album
March 17 WC The Shadiest One
March 31 Gang Starr Moment of Truth
April 7 Various Artists I Got the Hook Up
April 21 Public Enemy He Got Game
May 5 Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
May 12 DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
May 19 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Greatest Hits
Snoop Dogg Smokefest Underground
Too Short Nationwide: Independence Day
8Ball Lost
June 2 Master P MP Da Last Don
June 16 Queen Latifah Order in the Court
June 30 Def Squad El Niño
July 14 Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
N.O.R.E. N.O.R.E.
July 21 Nate Dogg G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2
Wu-Tang Clan The Swarm
August 4 Snoop Dogg Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
August 11 Funkmaster Flex The Mix Tape, Vol. III
August 18 Black Star Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause
MC Lyte Seven & Seven
August 25 Biz Markie On the Turntable
Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Xzibit 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
September 1 Fat Joe Don Cartagena
Kurupt Kuruption!
September 8 Digital Underground Who Got the Gravy?
September 22 Ras Kass Rasassination
September 29 Jay-Z Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
OutKast Aquemini
A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement
October 6 Cypress Hill Cypress Hill IV
Mack 10 The Recipe
Speedknot Mobstaz Mobstability
October 27 Big Daddy Kane Veteranz' Day
November 10 Method Man Tical 2000: Judgement Day
November 17 Geto Boys Da Good da Bad & da Ugly
Ice Cube War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
November 24 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony The Collection, Vol. 1
DJ Quik Rhythm-al-ism
Redman Doc's da Name 2000
RZA Bobby Digital in Stereo
2Pac Greatest Hits
December 13 Mystikal Ghetto Fabulous
December 14 Busta Rhymes E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
December 22 DMX Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood

Highest first-week album sales

List of top ten albums with the highest first-week home market sales
Number Album Artist 1st-week sales 1st-week position Refs
1 Hello Nasty Beastie Boys 681,000 1
2 Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood DMX 670,000 1
3 Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told Snoop Dogg 520,000 1
4 MP Da Last Don Master P 495,000 1
5 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill 422,624 1
6 Tical 2000: Judgement Day Method Man 411,000 1
7 Ghetto Fabulous Mystikal 386,000 5
8 Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life Jay-Z 350,000 1
9 Charge It 2 Da Game Silkk The Shocker 288,000 3
10 It's Dark and Hell Is Hot DMX 251,000 1

See also

References