This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1980.
Released albums[]
February[]
September[]
| Day
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Artist(s)
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Album
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Record label
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| 29
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Kurtis Blow
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Kurtis Blow
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Mercury Records
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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
