# 1993 in hip-hop

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 1 | Professor X the Overseer | Puss 'N Boots (The Struggle Continues...) |
| January 12 | Raw Breed | Lune Tunz |
| January 12 | Madstyle | Bloodrush |
| January 26 | King T | Tha Triflin' Album |
| January 26 | Paperboy | The Nine Yards |
| February 2 | Brand Nubian | In God We Trust |
| February 2 | Strickly Roots | Strickly Friends (Begs No Friends) |
| February 2 | Above the Law | Black Mafia Life |
| February 2 | Young Black Teenagers | Dead Enz Kidz Doin' Lifetime Bidz |
| February 9 | Digable Planets | Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| February 9 | Apache | Apache Ain't Shit |
| February 16 | 2Pac | Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... |
| February 16 | Kam | Neva Again |
| February 16 | Flavor Unit | Roll Wit' Tha Flava |
| February 23 | Naughty by Nature | 19 Naughty III |
| March 2 | B-Legit | Tryin' to Get a Buck |
| March 9 | Ant Banks | Sittin' on Somethin' Phat |
| March 9 | Bloods & Crips | Bangin' on Wax |
| March 9 | Geto Boys | Till Death Do Us Part |
| March 9 | Mad Kap | Look Ma Duke, No Hands |
| March 9 | I.M.P | Back in the Days |
| March 16 | Kid Rock | The Polyfuze Method |
| March 23 | Ice-T | Home Invasion |
| March 23 | Just-Ice | Gun Talk |
| March 23 | Monie Love | In a Word or 2 |
| March 23 | P.M. Dawn | The Bliss Album...? |
| March 30 | LL Cool J | 14 Shots to the Dome |
| March 30 | Onyx | Bacdafucup |
| April 1 | Marxman | 33 Revolutions per Minute |
| April 13 | Mobb Deep | Juvenile Hell |
| April 13 | The Beatnuts | Intoxicated Demons |
| April 13 | K-Rino | Stories from the Black Book |
| April 13 | Capital Tax | The Swoll Package |
| April 16 | Suga-T | It's All Good |
| April 20 | C-Bo | Gas Chamber |
| April 20 | Tim Dog | Do or Die |
| April 20 | Da Youngsta's | The Aftermath |
| April 20 | Brokin English Kilk | Brokin English Kilk |
| April 20 | Trends of Culture | Trendz |
| April 27 | Freestyle Fellowship | Innercity Griots |
| April 27 | MC Breed | The New Breed |
| April 27 | Prime Minister Pete Nice and Daddy Rich | Dust to Dust |
| May 4 | Run-D.M.C. | Down with the King |
| May 4 | Masta Ace Incorporated | SlaughtaHouse |
| May 4 | Funkdoobiest | Which Doobie U B? |
| May 4 | The Coup | Kill My Landlord |
| May 18 | 5th Ward Boyz | Ghetto Dope |
| May 18 | Guru | Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| May 18 | Total Devastation | Legalize It! |
| May 19 | The Roots | Organix |
| May 25 | Big Daddy Kane | Looks Like a Job For... |
| May 25 | Boss | Born Gangstaz |
| May 25 | Havoc & Prodeje | Livin' in a Crime Wave |
| May 25 | Y'all So Stupid | Van Full of Pakistans |
| May 25 | Knucklehedz | Stricktly Savage |
| May 28 | B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e | Faces of Death |
| June | Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs | Roxbury 02119 |
| June 1 | DMG | Rigormortiz |
| June 1 | Top Authority | Somethin' To Blaze To |
| June 7 | D-Shot | The Shot Calla |
| June 15 | Esham | KKKill the Fetus |
| June 15 | Father MC | Sex Is Law |
| June 17 | Dre Dog | The New Jim Jones |
| June 22 | Biz Markie | All Samples Cleared! |
| June 22 | Jungle Brothers | J Beez wit the Remedy |
| June 22 | MC Lyte | Ain't No Other |
| June 22 | Yo-Yo | You Better Ask Somebody |
| June 22 | Intelligent Hoodlum | Tragedy: Saga of a Hoodlum |
| June 25 | Poison Clan | Ruff Town Behavior |
| June 29 | Candyman | I Thought U Knew |
| June 29 | Gumbo | Dropping Soulful H20 on the Fiber |
| June 29 | Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud | Blow Up the Spot |
| July 1 | Basehead | Not in Kansas Anymore |
| July 6 | Akinyele | Vagina Diner |
| July 6 | Ganksta N-I-P | Psychic Thoughts (Are What I Conceive?) |
| July 6 | Mesanjarz of Funk | Mesanjarz of Funk |
| July 6 | C.E.B. | Countin' Endless Bank |
| July 8 | Tag Team | Whoomp! (There It Is) |
| July 12 | Luke | In the Nude |
| July 13 | Da King & I | Contemporary Jeep Music |
| July 13 | Rumpletilskinz | What is a Rumpletilskin? |
| July 13 | JT the Bigga Figga | Playaz N the Game |
| July 13 | Mac Mall | Illegal Business? |
| July 13 | Justin Warfield | My Field Trip to Planet 9 |
| July 16 | Insane Clown Posse | Beverly Kills 50187 |
| July 20 | Cypress Hill | Black Sunday |
| July 20 | Threat | Sickinnahead |
| July 20 | Splack Pack | Uhh!! Ohh!! |
| July 27 | Fat Joe da Gangsta | Represent |
| July 27 | Pooh-Man | Judgement Day |
| August 3 | Kris Kross | Da Bomb |
| August 10 | Ultramagnetic MCs | The Four Horsemen |
| August 17 | Eightball & MJG | Comin' Out Hard |
| August 17 | Scarface | The World Is Yours |
| August 24 | Tha Alkaholiks | 21 & Over |
| August 24 | Illegal | The Untold Truth |
| August 24 | Private Investigators | Re-Act Like Ya Knew |
| August 24 | Hoodratz | Sneeke Muthafukaz |
| September 14 | Poor Righteous Teachers | Black Business |
| September 21 | A.L.T. | Stone Cold World |
| September 21 | Another Bad Creation | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It |
| September 21 | De La Soul | Buhloone Mindstate |
| September 21 | YZ | The Ghetto's Been Good to Me |
| September 28 | Hi-C | Swing'n |
| September 28 | KRS-One | Return of the Boom Bap |
| September 28 | Lords of the Underground | Here Come the Lords |
| September 28 | Souls of Mischief | 93 'til Infinity |
| September 28 | Spice 1 | 187 He Wrote |
| October 5 | Digital Underground | The Body-Hat Syndrome |
| October 11 | Totally Insane | Goin' Insane |
| October 12 | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince | Code Red |
| October 12 | Salt-n-Pepa | Very Necessary |
| October 12 | Leaders of the New School | T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye) |
| October 19 | Black Moon | Enta da Stage |
| October 19 | Eazy-E | It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa |
| October 19 | Erick Sermon | No Pressure |
| October 26 | Shaquille O'Neal | Shaq Diesel |
| October 26 | Too Short | Get in Where You Fit In |
| October 26 | Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard | Give 'Em The Finger |
| November 2 | Daddy-O | You Can Be A Daddy, But Never Daddy-O |
| November 9 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders |
| November 9 | II D Extreme | II 2 Extreme |
| November 9 | Jamalski | Roughneck Reality |
| November 9 | K7 | Swing Batta Swing |
| November 9 | Brotha Lynch Hung | 24 Deep |
| November 9 | Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| November 10 | Too Short | Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983–1988 |
| November 16 | Blood of Abraham | Future Profits |
| November 16 | Das EFX | Straight Up Sewaside |
| November 16 | MC Ren | Shock of the Hour |
| November 16 | Queen Latifah | Black Reign |
| November 16 | Us3 | Hand on the Torch |
| November 23 | Snoop Doggy Dogg | Doggystyle |
| November 23 | Del the Funky Homosapien | No Need for Alarm |
| November 29 | Mac Dre | Young Black Brotha |
| November 30 | The Conscious Daughters | Ear to the Street |
| December 7 | Domino | Domino |
| December 7 | Ice Cube | Lethal Injection |
| December 21 | Jodeci | Diary of a Mad Band |
| Unknown | 187 Fac | The U.N.E. |
| Unknown | MC Shy D | The Comeback |
| Unknown | San Quinn | Young Baby Boy (Don't Cross Me) |
| Unknown | T-Bone | Redeemed Hoodlum |
| Unknown | Dru Down | Fools from the Streets |
| Unknown | Success-n-Effect | Drive-by of Uh Revolutionist |
| Unknown | MF911 | Idol, The Bloodsport |
| Unknown | Chief Groovy Loo And The Chosen Tribe | Got 'Em Running Scared |
| Unknown | Get Some Crew | Come Get Some |
| Unknown | Splack Pack featuring Kidd Money | Uhh Ohh |
| Unknown | Kool Keith and Godfather Don | Cenobites LP |

## Highest-charting singles

Hip hop singles which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 :
| Title | Artist | Peak position |
| "Informer" | Snow feat. MC Shan | 1 |
| "Whoomp! (There It Is)" | Tag Team | 2 |
| "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" | Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg | 2 |
| "Slam" | Onyx | 4 |
| "Shoop" | Salt-N-Pepa | 4 |
| "Mr. Wendal" | Arrested Development | 6 |
| "Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" | Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg | 8 |
| "Hip Hop Hooray" | Naughty by Nature | 8 |
| "Ditty" | Paperboy | 10 |
| "I Get Around" | 2Pac featuring Digital Underground | 11 |
| "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 |
| "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" | Digable Planets | 15 |
| "Insane in the Brain" | Cypress Hill | 19 |
| "Girl I've Been Hurt" | Snow (musician) | 19 |
| "Alright" | Kris Kross | 19 |
| "Check Yo Self" | Ice Cube feat. Das EFX | 20 |
| "Down with the King" | Run-D.M.C. featuring Pete Rock & CL Smooth | 21 |
| "Very Special (song)" | Big Daddy Kane feat. DJ Spinderella | 31 |
| "Let Me Ride" | Dr. Dre feat. Jewell & Snoop Doggy Dogg | 34 |
| "Ruffneck" | 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 Doggy 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 |