Lauryn Hill's 98-99 Run is probably the GOAT year by a Hip Hop artist

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Most Dominate year by hip hop artist ever?
  • 98- releases The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

  • Doo Whop (That Thing) debuts #1 on Billboard Hot 100

  • 1999 Grammy Awards, Hill broke records by becoming both the first woman ever to be nominated in ten categories in a single year,

  • 1999 Grammy Awards first woman to win five times in one night. Hill won the awards for Album of the Year (beating Madonna's critically acclaimed Ray of Light and Shania Twain's bestselling Come on Over), Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist
    • First Hip Hop record to win Album of the Year at Grammys

  • Between 1998 and 1999, Hill earned 25 million USD from record sales and touring

  • Hill became a national media icon, as magazines ranging from Time to Esquire to Teen People vied to put her on their covers. In the late 1990s, Hill was noted by some as a humanitarian. In 1996 she received an Essence Award for work including the 1996 founding of the Refugee Project (an outreach organization that supports a two-week overnight camp for at-risk youth), her support of well-building projects in Kenya and Uganda, and for staging a rap concert in Harlem to promote voter registration

  • In 1999 Hill received three awards at the 30th Annual NAACP Image Awards. Also in 1999, Ebony named her one of "100+ Most Influential Black Americans". She was named with Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and others among the "10 For Tomorrow," in the EBONY 2000: Special Millennium Issue.

  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which was both critically and commercially successful. It sold over 423,000 copies in its first week and topped the Billboard 200 albums chart for four weeks and the Billboard R&B Album chart for six weeks; it would go on to sell more than 19 million copies worldwide
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Stop with the nonsense.

Cube from 88-91 or even 2pac from 93-96. Lauryn is overrated as hell.
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You trying to use 3 year runs to compare with Lauryn's 98-99. What she accomplished in one year wasn't matched by either of those artists. And probably never will be ever by anyone in Rap
 
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Jack Splatter said:
In what year did DMX have a run as strong as the one in my OP? Drop some details and accomplishments :comeon:
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In 98 he dropped Its Dark And Hell Is Hot as well as Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood. I think both went plat in the same year
 
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I wouldn't exactly call 98-99 a run for Lauryn. It's just a year in which she dominated. During that period though, she was easily larger than DMX and she only dropped that one album and X had two. No Hip Hop artist was bigger than Lauryn Hill during 98-99 even though Jay Z and X were closest. She was still head and shoulders above everybody during that time in terms of popularity and acclaim.

In terms of runs:

50 Cent '03-'06
Kanye West '04-'08
Lil' Wayne '06-'09 (could argue '06-'11)
Jay Z '98-'03
Biggie '94-'97
Pac '92-'96
 
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Jack Splatter said:
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Most Dominate year by hip hop artist ever?

98- releases The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Doo Whop (That Thing) debuts #1 on Billboard Hot 100

1999 Grammy Awards, Hill broke records by becoming both the first woman ever to be nominated in ten categories in a single year,

1999 Grammy Awards first woman to win five times in one night. Hill won the awards for Album of the Year (beating Madonna's critically acclaimed Ray of Light and Shania Twain's bestselling Come on Over), Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist
First Hip Hop record to win Album of the Year at Grammys

Between 1998 and 1999, Hill earned 25 million USD from record sales and touring

Hill became a national media icon, as magazines ranging from Time to Esquire to Teen People vied to put her on their covers. In the late 1990s, Hill was noted by some as a humanitarian. In 1996 she received an Essence Award for work including the 1996 founding of the Refugee Project (an outreach organization that supports a two-week overnight camp for at-risk youth), her support of well-building projects in Kenya and Uganda, and for staging a rap concert in Harlem to promote voter registration

In 1999 Hill received three awards at the 30th Annual NAACP Image Awards. Also in 1999, Ebony named her one of "100+ Most Influential Black Americans". She was named with Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and others among the "10 For Tomorrow," in the EBONY 2000: Special Millennium Issue.

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which was both critically and commercially successful. It sold over 423,000 copies in its first week and topped the Billboard 200 albums chart for four weeks and the Billboard R&B Album chart for six weeks; it would go on to sell more than 19 million copies worldwide


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And then she started popping pills and that was it.
 
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