Release Date |
Artist |
Album |
Label |
January 18 |
The Game |
The Documentary |
Aftermath Entertainment, G-Unit Records, Interscope Records |
January 25 |
Buck 65 |
This Right Here Is Buck 65 |
V2 |
Geto Boys |
The Foundation |
Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records |
Paul Wall & Chamillionaire |
Controversy Sells |
Paid In Full |
Spice 1 |
Dyin' 2 Ball |
Triple X Entertainment |
January 31[1] |
Pete Rock |
The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions |
BBE Records |
February 8 |
Krayzie Bone |
Gemini: Good vs. Evil |
Ball'r Records, ThugLine Records |
Mike Ladd |
Negrophilia: The Album |
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One Be Lo |
S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (Sounds Of Nahshid Originate Good Rhymes And Music) |
Subterraneous Records, Fat Beats Records |
Rapper Big Pooh |
Sleepers |
6 Hole Records, Caroline Distribution |
Sage Francis |
A Healthy Distrust |
Epitaph Records |
February 15 |
Suburban Noize Records |
Sub Noize Souljaz |
Suburban Noize |
February 22 |
A Gun Called Tension |
A Gun Called Tension |
Cold Crush Records |
Aesop Rock |
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives |
Definitive Jux |
Bone Brothers |
Bone Brothers |
Koch Records |
Busdriver |
Fear of a Black Tangent |
Mush |
Jumpsteady |
Master of the Flying Guillotine |
Psychopathic Records |
Sole |
Live from Rome |
Anticon |
TRU |
The Truth |
The New No Limit Records, Koch Records |
March 1 |
Pimp C |
The Sweet James Jones Stories |
Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records |
March 3 |
50 Cent |
The Massacre |
G-Unit Records, Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records |
March 7 |
Sev Statik |
Slow Burn |
Pitch Control, Pointman |
March 8 |
Boom Bip |
Blue Eyed in the Red Room |
Lex Records |
Celly Cel |
It'z Real Out Here |
33rd Street Records |
Tame One |
O.G. Bobby Johnson |
Eastern Conference Records |
March 12 |
Evidence |
Another Sound Mission Vol. 1 |
Audio Fidelity |
March 22 |
Anybody Killa |
Road Fools |
Psychopathic Records |
C-Murder |
The Truest Shit I Ever Said |
Bossalinie Records, Koch Records |
M.I.A. |
Arular |
XL Recordings, Interscope Records |
The Perceptionists |
Black Dialogue |
Definitive Jux |
Prefuse 73 |
Surrounded By Silence |
Warp |
March 29 |
Blueprint |
1988 |
Rhymesayers Entertainment |
Beanie Sigel |
The B. Coming |
Dame Dash Music Group, Def Jam Recordings |
Edan |
Beauty and the Beat |
Lewis Recordings |
Fat Killahz |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? |
No Tyze Entertainment |
Will Smith |
Lost and Found |
Interscope Records |
April 12 |
Z-Ro |
Let the Truth Be Told |
Rap-a-Lot Records |
April 19 |
Esham |
A-1 Yola |
Psychopathic Records |
Mike Jones |
Who is Mike Jones? |
Swishahouse/Asylum/Warner Bros. |
Roots Manuva |
Awfully Deep |
Big Dada |
Zion I |
True & Livin' |
Live Up Records |
May 3 |
Quasimoto |
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
Stones Throw Records |
13 & God |
13 & God |
Alien Transistor, Anticon |
May 10 |
Fannypack |
See You Next Tuesday |
Tommy Boy Records |
Jus Allah |
All Fates Have Changed |
Babygrande Records |
May 17 |
The Away Team |
National Anthem |
6 Hole Records, Caroline Distribution |
Insane Clown Posse |
The Calm |
Psychopathic Records |
Memphis Bleek |
534 |
Get Low Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings |
Nobody |
And Everything Else... |
Plug Research |
May 24 |
Common |
Be |
GOOD Music, Geffen Records |
Gorillaz |
Demon Days |
Virgin Records |
May 31 |
The High & Mighty |
The 12th Man |
Eastern Conference Records |
M.E.D. |
Push Comes to Shove |
Stones Throw Records |
Sean Price |
Monkey Barz |
Duck Down Music |
Ya Boy |
Rookie of the Year |
SMC, Done Deal Ent. |
June 14 |
Afu-Ra |
State of the Arts |
Life Force Records, Decon Records |
Fat Joe |
All or Nothing |
Terror Squad, Atlantic |
June 21 |
9th Wonder & Buckshot |
Chemistry |
Duck Down Music |
Canibus |
Mind Control |
Tommy Boy Records |
Guru |
Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures |
7 Grand Records |
June 27 |
Kano |
Home Sweet Home |
679 |
June 28 |
Bizarre |
Hannicap Circus |
Sanctuary Urban |
Twiztid |
Man's Myth (Vol. 1) |
Psychopathic Records |
Ying Yang Twins |
USA (United State Of Atlanta) |
TVT Records |
July 5 |
Missy Elliott |
The Cookbook |
The Goldmind Inc., Atlantic Records |
July 12 |
Felt |
Felt, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet |
Rhymesayers Entertainment |
Frayser Boy |
Me Being Me |
Hypnotize Minds |
July 26 |
Buck 65 |
Secret House Against the World |
WEA |
Jeezy |
Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 |
CTE World, Def Jam Recordings |
Trey Songz |
I Gotta Make It |
Atlantic |
Twiztid |
Mutant (Vol. 2) |
Psychopathic Records |
7L & Esoteric |
Moment of Rarities |
Babygrande Records |
August 2 |
Necro |
The Sexorcist |
Psycho+Logical-Records |
August 9 |
Proof |
Searching for Jerry Garcia |
Iron Fist Records |
August 16 |
Vanilla Ice |
Platinum Underground |
Ultrax Records |
August 23 |
Jim Jones |
Harlem: Diary of a Summer |
Diplomat, Koch |
Kurupt |
Against the Grain |
Death Row Records, Koch Records |
Pumpkinhead |
Orange Moon Over Brooklyn |
Soulspazm Records, Rawkus Records |
Skrapz |
The 12 Step Program |
Genetic Soil LLC |
August 30 |
Kanye West |
Late Registration |
Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings |
Tony Yayo |
Thoughts of a Predicate Felon |
G-Unit Records, Interscope Records |
September 6 |
AZ |
A.W.O.L. |
Quiet Money Records |
September 13 |
Big Shug |
Who's Hard? |
Sure Shot Recordings |
DJ Quik |
Trauma |
Mad Science Records |
Little Brother |
The Minstrel Show |
ABB Records, Atlantic Records |
Paul Wall |
The Peoples Champ |
Swishahouse, Asylum, Atlantic |
Smif-n-Wessun |
Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded |
Duck Down Music |
U-God |
Mr. Xcitement |
Free Agency Recordings |
September 20 |
Cage |
Hell's Winter |
Definitive Jux |
David Banner |
Certified |
SRC Records, Universal Records |
September 27 |
Bizzy Bone |
Speaking in Tongues |
845 Entertainment |
Blackalicious |
The Craft |
Anti- |
Three 6 Mafia |
Most Known Unknown |
Hypnotize Minds, Sony Urban Music, Columbia Records |
Lil' Kim |
The Naked Truth |
International Rock Star Records, Atlantic Records |
October 3 |
Ms. Dynamite |
Judgement Days |
Polydor |
October 4 |
Twista |
The Day After |
Atlantic Records |
Atmosphere |
You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having |
Rhymesayers Entertainment |
Why? |
Elephant Eyelash |
Anticon |
Spice 1 |
The Truth |
High Powered Entertainment |
Tragedy Khadafi |
Thug Matrix |
Fastlife |
October 11 |
DANGERDOOM |
The Mouse and the Mask |
Epitaph Records |
Warren G |
In the Mid-Nite Hour |
G-Funk Entertainment |
October 18 |
Black Milk |
Sound of the City |
Music House, Fat Beats |
Bun B |
Trill |
Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records |
Circle of Tyrants |
The Circle of Tyrants |
Psycho+Logical-Records |
Ninja High School |
Young Adults Against Suicide |
Tomlab |
Rev. Run |
Distortion |
Def Jam Recordings |
October 25 |
DJ Muggs and GZA |
Grandmasters |
Angeles Records |
November 1 |
Canibus |
Hip-Hop for Sale |
Babygrande Records |
Fatlip |
The Loneliest Punk |
Delicious Vinyl |
Public Enemy |
New Whirl Odor |
Slam Jamz Records |
Tha Dogg Pound |
Dillinger & Young Gotti II: Tha Saga Continuez... |
Gangsta Advisory Records |
November 8 |
Bigg Jus |
Poor People's Day |
Mush |
Sheek Louch |
After Taxes |
D-Block Records, Koch Records |
November 15 |
Mike Ladd |
Father Divine |
ROIR |
November 22 |
Talib Kweli |
Right About Now |
Koch Records |
Chamillionaire |
The Sound of Revenge |
Universal |
Juelz Santana |
What the Game's Been Missing! |
Diplomat Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings |
Nelly |
Sweatsuit |
Derrty, Fo' Reel, Universal |
Rich Boyz |
Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us |
Guttar Music |
December 6 |
Eminem |
Curtain Call: The Hits |
Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records, Web Entertainment |
Flame |
Rewind |
Cross Movement Records |
Lil Wayne |
Tha Carter II |
Cash Money Records, Universal Records |
December 13 |
Snoop Dogg |
Bigg Snoop Dogg Presents...Welcome to tha Chuuch: Da Album |
Doggystyle Records, Koch Records |
December 27 |
Trick-Trick |
The People vs. |
Motown Records |