Year
Hip Hop in 1994
18 albums from 1994 in the archive, from Queens, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, The Bay, Houston, Brooklyn, Memphis, Detroit and New Orleans. Albums with a known release date are listed in the order they came out.
AlbumIllmaticNas · 1994Released April 19
AlbumSouthernplayalisticadillacmuzikOutKast · 1994Released April 26
AlbumCreepin On Ah Come UpBone Thugs-n-Harmony · 1994Released June 21
AlbumFunkdafiedDa Brat · 1994Released June 28
AlbumDon’t Fight The Feelin’Rappin' 4-Tay · 1994Released July 26
AlbumSuper Tight…UGK · 1994Released August 30
AlbumReady to DieThe Notorious B.I.G. · 1994Released September 13
AlbumOn The Outside Looking In8Ball & MJG · 1994Released September 27
AlbumResurrectionCommon · 1994Released October 4
AlbumThe DiaryScarface · 1994Released October 18
AlbumAmeriKKKa’s NightmareSpice 1 · 1994Released November 22
AlbumClosed CasketEsham · 1994Released November 22
Samples
Released in 1994, built on a break
- Jeru the Damaja“Jungle Music”samples Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
- Nas“N.Y. State of Mind”samples N.T.
- Nas“It Ain't Hard to Tell”samples N.T.
- Nas“It Ain't Hard to Tell”samples Long Red
- Public Enemy“Give It Up”samples Think (About It)
- Vanilla Ice“Fame”samples Synthetic Substitution
- MC Hammer & Deion Sanders“Straight to My Feet”samples (Not Just) Knee Deep
- DJ Shadow“What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)”samples Numbers