1996

  • The D.O.C. — Helter Skelter
    Eazy-E — Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
    2Pac — All Eyez on Me
    Fugees — The Score
    Mad Skillz — From Where???
    Lord Finesse — Awakening
    The Conscious Daughters — Gamers
    Smoothe da Hustler — Once Upon a Time in America
    Busta Rhymes — The Coming
    Cella Dwellas — Realms 'n Reality
    Nonchalant — Until the Day
    Beastie Boys — The In Sound From Way Out!
    Geto Boys — The Resurrection
    Bahamadia — Kollage
    MC Eiht — Death Threatz
    MC Ren — The Villain in Black
    Chino XL — Here to Save You All
    Master P — Ice Cream Man
    Mac Mall — Untouchable
    Kool Keith — Dr. Octagonecologyst
    Too Short — Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)
    Shyheim — The Lost Generation
    Delinquent Habits — Delinquent Habits
    Digital Underground — Future Rhythm
    Lost Boyz — Legal Drug Money
    Ice-T — Ice-T VI: Return of the Real
    Kool G Rap — Rated XXX
    Company Flow — Funcrusher
    Heather B — Takin' Mine
    Heltah Skeltah — Nocturnal
    Jay-Z — Reasonable Doubt
    Crucial Conflict — The Final Tic
    De La Soul — Stakes Is High
    Nas — It Was Written
    Sadat X — Wild Cowboys
    11/5 — A-1 Yola
    A Tribe Called Quest — Beats, Rhymes and Life
    UGK — Ridin' Dirty
    Blahzay Blahzay — Blah Blah Blah
    Silkk — The Shocker
    A+ — Latch Key Child
    MC Lyte — Bad As I Wanna B
    OutKast — ATLiens
    Do or Die — Picture This
    The Roots — Illadelph Halflife
    Ras Kass — Soul on Ice
    Da Bush Babees — Gravity
    Jeru the Damaja — Wrath of the Math
    Poor Righteous Teachers — The New World Order
    Xzibit — At the Speed of Life
    Westside Connection — Bow Down
    PMD — Business is Business
    M.O.P. — Firing Squad
    House of Pain — Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again
    Ghostface Killah — Ironman
    O.G.C. — Da Storm
    Yo-Yo — Total Control
    L.L. Cool J — All World: Greatest Hits
    Makaveli (formerly 2Pac) — The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
    Eminem — Infinite
    Lil' Kim — Hard Core
    Snoop Doggy Dogg — Tha Doggfather
    DJ Shadow — Endtroducing.....
    Foxy Brown — Ill Na Na
    Mobb Deep — Hell on Earth
    Keith Murray — Enigma
    B.G. — Chopper City
    Three 6 Mafia — Chapter 1: The End
    Redman — Muddy Waters

  • Ghostface – “All That I Got Is You”
    2Pac – “I Ain’t Mad At Cha” / “To Live And Die In LA” / “Hail Mary”
    Nas – “If I Ruled The World”
    De La Soul – “Stakes Is High”
    Outkast – “Elevators”
    Lost Boyz – “Renee”
    The Roots – “What They Do” / “Clones”
    Fugees – “Ready Or Not”
    Jay Z, Biggie – “Brooklyn’s Finest”
    Xzibit – “Paparazzi”
    Mobb Deep – “Hell On Earth”
    Busta Rhymes – “Woo Ha”
    Outkast – “ATLiens”
    Jay Z – “Dead Presidents”
    Dr. Octagon - “Earth People”
    ATCQ – “1nce Again”
    Bahamadia – “3 The Hard Way”
    Geto Boys – “The World Is A Ghetto”
    Westside Connection — “Bow Down”

1996 NEWS

Tupac Shakur is killed, September

30 Black Churches are burned in Mississippi over the course of the year

Atlanta summer Olympics

First images of pluto were taken by the hubble space telescope in March