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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1987. LL Cool J's 1987 sophomore release, Bigger and Deffer , stands as the artist's top selling album with over three million sales and charting the singles " I'm Bad " and " I Need Love ".
In 1987, a total 9 albums reached the number one position. The beginning of the year started with the continuation of the end of last year's number one album, Live 1975-85 by Bruce Springsteen, but was quickly overtaken by Bon Jovi, and Slippery When Wet, which returned to the top spot, and became their first number one album.
1987 in heavy metal music; 1987 in hip hop music; ... the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the US, a record which ...
At the time, the 1987 Def Jam tour was the most ambitious hip-hop trek ever produced, with a lineup that included soon-to-be double-platinum headliner LL Cool J, Whodini, Eric B. & Rakim, DJ Jazzy ...
Criminal Minded is the debut studio album by hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions, released on March 3, 1987, by B-Boy Records. It is considered a highly influential hip hop album [1] and one of the first in the gangsta rap genre. [2] Since its release, the album has been sampled, interpolated and paraphrased.
Bigger and Deffer dominated the summer of 1987, spending 11 weeks atop the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and peaking at number three on the Billboard 200. It became the fourth hip hop album to receive platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Hip-hop has historically given us lots of amazing, cohesive albums from Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” to Kanye’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” to ...
Paid in Full is the debut studio album by American hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on July 7, 1987, by Island-subsidiary label 4th & B'way Records.The duo recorded the album at hip-hop producer Marley Marl's home studio and Power Play Studios in New York City, following Rakim's response to Eric B.'s search for a rapper to complement his disc jockey work in 1985.