
1996
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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