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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.

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    Eric B. & Rakim's 1988 sophomore album, Follow the Leader, earned an RIAA gold certification and many critically acclaimed reviews.

    Released albums

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    Release Date[1] Artist Album
    January 31 Too Short Life Is...Too Short
    February 17 Geto Boys Making Trouble
    February 23 Biz Markie Goin' Off
    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 16 Derek B Bullet From A Gun
    May 17 Run-D.M.C. Tougher Than Leather
    May 31 Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew The World's Greatest Entertainer
    Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary
    June 7 Audio Two What More Can I Say?
    EPMD Strictly Business
    June 15 J.J. Fad Supersonic
    June 21 Stetsasonic In Full Gear
    June 28 Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane
    Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
    July 1 The Fat Boys Coming Back Hard Again
    July 26 Eric B. & Rakim Follow the Leader
    Salt-n-Pepa A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
    August 8 N.W.A Straight Outta Compton
    August 17 2 Live Crew Move Somethin'
    September 1 Sir Mix-A-Lot Swass
    September 13 Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It
    Ice-T Power
    MC Lyte Lyte as a Rock
    Steady B Let the Hustlers Play
    September 20 Marley Marl In Control, Volume 1
    Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock It Takes Two
    September 28 MC Hammer Let's Get It Started
    October 4 Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown
    October 7 Boogie Boys Romeo Knight
    October 21 Kid 'n Play 2 Hype
    October 25 MC Shan Born to be Wild
    November 1 Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
    November 8 Jungle Brothers Straight out the Jungle
    November 15 King T Act a Fool
    November 22 Lakim Shabazz Pure Righteousness
    unknown Kaos Court's In Session
    December 15 Various Artists The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor
    Unknown Alliance We Could Get Used To This
    Unknown Busy Bee Starski Running Thangs
    Unknown Kurtis Blow Back By Popular Demand
    Unknown Three Times Dope Original Stylin'
    Unknown M.C. Cool Rock & M.C. Chaszy Chess Boot the Booty
    unknown Michael Peace Rappin' Bold
    Unknown MC Shy D Comin' Correct in 88
    Unknown P.I.D. Here We Are
    Unknown The 7A3 Coolin' In Cali
    Unknown Tuff Crew Danger Zone
    Unknown J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. Doin' Damage
    Unknown Masters of Ceremony Dynamite
    Unknown Raheem The Vigilante
    Unknown Sweet Tee It's Tee Time
    Unknown Mantronix In Full Effect
    Unknown Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud Girls I Got 'Em Locked
    Unknown K-9 Posse K-9 Posse
    Unknown Rodney-O & Joe Cooley Me and Joe
    Unknown Cold Crush Brothers Troopers
    Unknown Def IV Nice & Hard
    Unknown The Krown Rulers Paper Chase
    Unknown Various Artists Rhyme Syndicate Comin' Through
    Unknown Bass Patrol Rock This Planet
    Unknown The Skinny Boys Skinny (They Can't Get Enough)
    Unknown Schoolly D Smoke Some Kill
    Unknown The Fila Fresh Crew Tuffest Man Alive
    Unknown Tall Dark & Handsome Tall Dark & Handsome
    Unknown Original Concept Straight From the Basement of Kooley High!
    Unknown Cash Money & Marvelous Where's the Party At?
    Unknown Chubb Rock Chubb Rock (featuring Howie Tee)
    Unknown Whistle Transformation
    Unknown Numarx Our Time Has Come
    Unknown Shinehead Unity
    Unknown White Boys On A Mission
    Unknown Various Artists The Rap Pack II Fresh Records Compilation
    Unknown Various Artists Mr. Magic's Rap Attack Volume 4
    Unknown Various Artists Rap's New Generation Rooftop Records
    Unknown Don Baron Young, Gifted And Black
    Unknown Tony Tee Time To Get Physical
    Unknown Spike V.S.T. I Wanna Dance
    Unknown The 45 King Master Of The Game
    Unknown Finesse & Synquis Soul Sisters
    Unknown True Love I'm Bustin' Out
    Unknown Chilly Uptown I Got Rules
    Unknown True Mathematics Greatest Hits
    Unknown Frozen Explosion Frozen Explosion
    Unknown The Real Roxanne The Real Roxanne
    Unknown L'Trimm Grab It!
    Unknown Kid Flash He's In Effect
    Unknown Blood Brothers Honey & Blood
    Unknown Big Mouth Quite Not Right
    Unknown Boy White Do We Connect
    Unknown Wendy O. Williams' Ultrafly And The Hometown Girls Deffest! And Baddest!
    Unknown M-4 Sers Shake It Up & Get Nasty!!
    Unknown Metal MC Born To Party

    Highest-charting singles

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    Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 1988 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100[2]
    Song Artist Project Peak position
    "Going Back To Cali" LL Cool J Less than Zero (soundtrack) 31

    See also

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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1988 hip hop records.

    References

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    1. ^ "The Top 50 Hip-Hop Albums of 1988".
  • ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.

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