Table of contents:
January | February | March | April | May | June | July
August | September | October | November | December January January 1: Grandmaster flash was born in 1958
January 7: 50 Cent releases his debut single, "In da Club"
January 8: DJ Clue? was born in 1975, as was Just Blaze in 1978
January 9: MF Doom was born in 1971
January 12: Raekwon was born in 1970, as was Zack de la Rocha
January 14: LL Cool J was born in 1968, as was Slick Rick in 1965
January 15: 9th Wonder was born in 1975, was was Pitbull in 1981
January 17: Lil Jon was born in 1971, as was Ray J in 1981
January 18: A$AP Mob's founder A$AP Yams pa**es away
January 19: Mac Miller was born in 1992
January 20: Joey Bada$$ was born in 1995, as was Questlove in 1971
January 21: Jam Master Jay was born in 1965, as was Rapsody in 1988 and Spider Loc in 1979
January 22: DJ Jazzy Jef was born in 1965, as was Logic in 1990
January 23: Statik Selektah was born in 1982
January 26: Harry Fraud was born in 1987
January 28: Rakim was born in 1968, as was Rick Ross in 1976 and J. Cole in 1985
January 29: RiFF RaFF was born in 1982
January 30: Kid Cudi was born in 1984 February February 1
February 6: 50 Cent's debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin' was released, 2003
February 10: Kanye West performs "Hey Mama" at the Grammy Awards, 2008
February 13: Drake releases his third mixtape So Far Gone, 2009
February 13: Fugees release their second album, The Score, 1996
February 14: Kanye West releases The Life of Pablo, his seventh studio album, in 2016
February 24: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill becomes the first Hip Hop album to win 'Album of the Year' at the Grammy Awards, 1999 March March 1
March 8: Gang Starr's Hard To Earn was released, 1994
March 9: Hip-hop icon The Notorious B.I.G. shot and k**ed, 1997
March 15: Kendrick Lamar's third studio album, To Pimp A bu*terfly was released, 2015 April April 1
April 5: Jordan Michael Houston, aka Juicy J was born, 1975
April 5: Pharrell Williams was born, 1973
April 19: Gang Starr rapper Guru pa**ed away, 2010
April 19: Nas' debut studio album, illmatic was released, 1994 May May 1
May 21: Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G. was born, 1972
May 23: Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP was released, 2000
May 24: Gerald Earl Gillum, aka G-Eazy was born, 1989
May 27: André Lauren Benjamin aka André 3000 was born, 1975 June June 1
June 8: Kanye Omari West was born, 1977
June 10: Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III was released, 2008
June 15: J. Cole releases his second mixtape The Warm Up, 2009
June 15: O'Shea Jackson, Sr., aka Ice Cube was born, 1969
June 16: Lesane Parish Crooks, aka 2Pac Shakur was born, 1971
June 17: Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born, 1987
June 18: Kanye West's sixth studio album, Yeezus, J. Cole's second album, Born Sinnerand Mac Miller's second album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off were all released, 2013
June 22: Diddy is arrested for a**aulting a football coach at UCLA
June 23: "Dear Mama" was chosen as the first rap song in the National Recording Registry, 2010
June 28: Jay Z becomes the first rapper to headline Glastonbury Festival on the Pyramid Stage, 2008 July July 1: Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five release "The Message", 1982
July 2: Vanilla Ice releases "Ice Ice Baby"
July 6: 50 Cent was born in 1975
July 7: Eric B. & Rakim's debut album Paid In Full was released
July 13: Swimming Pools comes out in 2012. It's the start of Kendrick Lamar's rise to fame
Unkown Date: LEANZUS b*tch August August 1: Raekwon's solo debut album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... was released
August 8: Jay Z and Kanye West release Watch the Throne, 2011
August 25: Lauryn Hill releases her debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill September September 1
September 11: Jay Z's The Blueprint was released, 2001
September 11: 50 Cent's Curtis was released
September 11: Kanye West's Graduation was released, 2004
September 13: The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album, Ready To Die was released
September 13: Hip-hop icon 2Pac Shakur pa**ed away
September 14: Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, aka Nas was born
September 25: Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino was born, 1983
September 27: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., aka Lil Wayne was born October October 1
October 17: Marshall Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem was born
October 20: Jam Master Jay shot and k**ed
October 22: Kendrick Lamar's second studio album, good kid, m.A.A.d city was released, 2012 November November 1
November 9: Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was released
November 12: J. Cole releases his third mixtape Friday Night Lights
November 14: Jay Z releases his eighth and supposedly final studio album, The Black Album
November 22: Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released December December 1
December 4: Shawn Carter aka Jay Z is born
December 10: Childish Gambino's second studio album, because the internet released
December 10: J. Cole performs "Be Free" on David Letterman
December 18: Nas' fifth studio album, Stillmatic was released
December 15: Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint was released