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Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 1991 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 [2] Song Artist Project Peak position "Play That Funky Music" Vanilla Ice: To the Extreme: 4 "O.P.P." Naughty By Nature: Naughty By Nature: 6 "Around The Way Girl" LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out: 9 "Mama Said Knock You Out" LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You ...
With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco -related sections, while some ...
Regarded as having helped introduce the hip-hop subgenre of G-funk to a mainstream audience, bringing forward West Coast hip-hop as a dominant force in the early-mid 1990s. [233] [234] Praised for the lyrical "realism" that Snoop Dogg delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow. [233] [235] Accolades: 29 November 1993 () Incunabula
In 1991, a total of 14 albums claimed the top of the chart. One of which, American rapper Vanilla Ice's To the Extreme started its peak on the issue dated November 10, 1990, and spent 8 weeks atop the chart in 1991. Mariah Carey's self-titled debut album was the longest running number-one album of the year, spending 11 consecutive weeks atop ...
Def Leppard's next album Adrenalize, released in March 1992, would go on to reach multi-platinum status and prove to be the last major commercial success for 1980s hair metal. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is released this year; it would go on to be considered one of the best hip hop albums of the 1990s.
Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on October 1, 1991, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. [1] [4] The album received critical acclaim, ranking at No. 2 in The Village Voice ' s 1991 Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album gold on April 19, 1995 for passing the sales mark of half a million copies. After 2Pac's death in 1996, the album made it to the US Catalog Albums, peaking at number 3. It also made its charting debut on the UK Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart, reaching number 35.
The Decade of Darkness, also referred to as 1990–2000 The Decade of Darkness, is an album by the American musician Afrika Bambaataa, released in 1991. [1] [2] Bambaataa is credited with his backing musicians, the Family. [3] The Decade of Darkness was Bambaataa's first album for EMI Records. [4]