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1988 in hip-hop

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

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 Ghetto 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 Mantronix In Full Effect
Various Artists School Daze: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
April 12 Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five On the Strength
April 19 MC Lyte Lyte as a Rock
April 26 Various Artists Colors (soundtrack)
May 16 Derek B Bullet From A Gun
May 17 Run-D.M.C. Tougher Than Leather
May 31 Busy Bee Starski Running Thangs
May 31 Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew The World's Greatest Entertainer
June 3 Michael Peace Rappin' Bold
Schoolly D Smoke Some Kill
June 7 Audio Two What More Can I Say?
EPMD Strictly Business
June 15 J.J. Fad Supersonic
Tuff Crew Danger Zone
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 13 MC Shy D Comin' Correct in 88
July 26 Eric B. & Rakim Follow the Leader
August 2 Rodney-O & Joe Cooley Me and Joe
Salt-n-Pepa A Salt with a Deadly Pepa
August 9 Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock It Takes Two
August 17 2 Live Crew Move Somethin'
August 23 The Krown Rulers Paper Chase
September 1 Sir Mix-A-Lot Swass
September 12 Shinehead Unity
September 13 Ice-T Power
Steady B Let the Hustlers Play
September 20 L'Trimm Grab It!
Marley Marl In Control, Volume 1
September 28 MC Hammer Let's Get It Started
October 4 Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown
October 7 Boogie Boys Romeo Knight
October 14 The 7A3 Coolin' In Cali
October 25 MC Shan Born to be Wild
October 26 Kid 'n Play 2 Hype
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 Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It
Lakim Shabazz Pure Righteousness
December 2 K-9 Posse K-9 Posse
December 9 Three Times Dope Original Stylin'
December 15 Various Artists The First Priority Music Family: Basement Flavor
Unknown Cold Crush Brothers Troopers
Unknown Chubb Rock Chubb Rock (featuring Howie Tee)
Unknown DJ Red Alert We Can Do This
Unknown The Fila Fresh Crew Tuffest Man Alive
Unknown Kaos Court’s In Session
Unknown Kid Flash He's In Effect
Unknown Kurtis Blow Back By Popular Demand
Unknown Miami Boyz Getting Off
Unknown Masters of Ceremony Dynamite
Unknown Numarx Our Time Has Come
Unknown Original Concept Straight From the Basement of Kooley High!
Unknown P.I.D. Here We Are
Unknown The 45 King Master Of The Game
Unknown The Skinny Boys Skinny (They Can't Get Enough)
Unknown Sweet Tee It's Tee Time
Unknown The Real Roxanne The Real Roxanne
Unknown Tall, Dark & Handsome Tall, Dark & Handsome
Unknown True Mathematics Greatest Hits
Unknown Various Artists D.J. Mega Mix 1988 Bad Hip Hop
Unknown Various Artists I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (soundtrack)
Unknown Whistle Transformation
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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
"Da Butt" E.U. School Daze: Original Soundtrack Album 35
"It Takes Two" Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock It Takes Two 36
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