1988 in hip hop music

This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1988.

Eric B. & Rakim's 1988 sophomore album, Follow the Leader, earned an RIAA gold certification and many critically acclaimed reviews.
1988 in music
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Released albums
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
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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References
  1. "The Top 50 Hip-Hop Albums of 1988".
  2. "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
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