Top albums 1988
En 1988, l’industrie du rap aux États-Unis a connu une année mémorable avec la sortie d’albums influents qui ont façonné l’évolution du genre. Leur impact continue d’être ressenti dans l’évolution ultérieure du hip-hop. Voici un résumé de certains des albums rap marquants de cette année :
2 Live Crew – Move Somethin’ (1988)
Audio Two – What More Can I Say? (1988)
Big Daddy Kane – Long Live The Kane (1988)
Biz Markie – Goin’ Off (1988)

Boogie Down Productions – By All Means Necessary (1988)
Cold Crush Brothers – Troopers (1988)
Def IV – Nice & Hard (1988)
DJ Cash Money & Marvelous – Where’s The Party At? (1988)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper (1988)
Doug E. Fresh – The World’s Greatest Entertainer (1988)
Eazy-E – Eazy Duz It (1988)
EPMD – Strictly Business (1988)
Eric B & Rakim – Follow The Leader (1988)
Ice T – Power (1988)
Jungle Brothers – Straight Out The Jungle (1988)
JVC Force – Doin’ Damage (1988)
Kid ‘n Play – 2 Hype (1988)
King Tee – Act A Fool (1988)
Lakim Shabazz – Pure Righteousness (1988)
Mantronix – In Full Effect (1988)
Marley Marl – In The Control Volume 1 (1988)
Masters Of Ceremony – Dynamite (1988)
MC Lyte – Lyte As A Rock (1988)
MC Shan – Born To Be Wild (1988)

N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988)
Rhyme Syndicate – Comin’ Through (1988)

Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock – It Takes Two (1988)
Run DMC – Tougher Than Leather (1988)
Salt-N-Pepa – A Salt With A Deadly Pepa (1988)
Schoolly D – Smoke Some Kill (1988)
Skinny Boys – They Can’t Get Enough (1988)
Slick Rick – The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick (1988)
Steady B – Let The Hustlers Play (1988)
Stetsasonic – In Full Gear (1988)
Superlover Cee & Casanova Rud – Girls I Got Em Locked (1988)

The 7A3 (DJ Muggs, Brett B , Sean B) – Coolin In Cali (1988)
Too Short – Life Is… (1988)
