1993 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 1993.

Released albums

Release Date Artist Album
January 26 King T Tha Triflin' Album
February 3 Brand Nubian In God We Trust
February 9 Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
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
March 30 LL Cool J 14 Shots to the Dome
Onyx Bacdafucup
April 13 Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell
April 27 Freestyle Fellowship Innercity Griots
May 4 Run-D.M.C. Down with the King
Masta Ace Incorporated SlaughtaHouse
May 18 Guru Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1
May 19 The Roots Organix
May 25 Big Daddy Kane Looks Like a Job For...
June 1 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Faces of Death
June 2 Biz Markie All Samples Cleared!
June 17 Dre Dog The New Jim Jones
June 22 MC Lyte Ain't No Other
June 27 Fat Joe Fat Joe
July 12 Mac Mall Illegal Business?
July 20 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
August 1 8Ball & MJG Comin' Out Hard[1]
August 3 Kris Kross Da Bomb
August 10 Ultramagnetic MCs The Four Horsemen
August 24 Tha Alkaholiks 21 & Over
September 21 De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate
September 28 KRS-One Return of the Boom Bap
Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity
Spice 1 187 He Wrote
October 5 Digital Underground The Body-Hat Syndrome
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
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 MC Ren Shock of the Hour
Queen Latifah Black Reign
November 23 Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Del the Funky Homosapien No Need for Alarm
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

  1. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. "8Ball and MJG - Comin' Out Hard". AllMusic. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
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