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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1980.

Released albums[]

February[]

Day Artist(s) Album Record label
7 The Sugarhill Gang Sugarhill Gang Sugar Hill Records

September[]

Day Artist(s) Album Record label
29 Kurtis Blow Kurtis Blow Mercury Records

Released singles[]

Unknown date[]

  • "8th Wonder" - The Sugarhill Gang
  • "Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap)" - Jimmy Spicer
  • "Ah, That's the Joint" - Kool DJ AJ
  • "And You Know That" - The Sequence
  • "Another One Bites Rap" - Barry & Demo
  • "Another One Bites the Dust" - Jimmy "Spiderman" Allen
  • "Another One Bites the Dust" - Sugar Daddy
  • "At the Party" - Treacherous Three
  • "Big Apple Rappin' (National Rappin' Anthem)" - Spyder-D
  • "Bons Tempos" - Equipe Rádio Cidade
  • "Boogie Feelin' Rap" - Sweet G
  • "Casper's Groovy Ghost Show" - Casper
  • "Charley Says! (Roller Boogie Baby)" - King Tim III
  • "Dallas" - The Mexicano
  • "Death Rap" - Margo's Kool Out Crew
  • "Dib-Be-Dib-Be-Dize" - Brother D with Collective Effort
  • "Do It Right (Rap)" - Bobby & Demo
  • "Double Dutch Bus" - Frankie Smith
  • "Do You Like That Funky Beat (Ah, Beat Beat)" - Kool Kyle Starchild
  • "Election 80 Rapp" - The Unknown Rapper
  • "Father Goose (The Ball at Oz...)" - M. Brathwaite / W. Carter
  • "Flash It to the Beat" - Flash and the Furious 5
  • "Freedom" - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
  • "Groovy Beat" - Stanley Shaw
  • "Hard Times" - Kurtis Blow
  • "Here I Am" - The Sugarhill Gang
  • "High Power Rap" - Disco Dave and the Force of the Five MCs
  • "Hot Hot Summer Day" - The Sugarhill Gang
  • "Jammin' on the One" - Don Juan & K. Dog
  • "Keep On Trying" - The Chill Factor
  • "Cosmo Rap" - Ronnie Jones
  • "Let's Rock" - Harlem World Crew
  • "Let's Vote" - Nuri
  • "Maximus Party" - T.J. Swann & Peewee Mel and Swann Controllers
  • "Million Dollar Legs" - Outlaw Four
  • "Monster Jam" - Spoonie Gee Meets The Sequence