This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2014.
‡ By the time 2014 Forest Hills Drive and The Pinkprint were released, Billboard had started counting total consumption (sales + streaming + track equivalent units) for the Billboard 200 chart.
In pure album sales, 2014 Forest Hills Drive debuted with 354,000 copies,[364] while The Pinkprint debuted with 198,000.
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Duo
Outkast
announced the end of their hiatus on January 15
Lil Boosie
was released from prison on March 5. He had spent almost five years behind bars. Shortly after he released "
Show Da World
" and announced a new album
Touchdown 2 Cause Hell
to be released by
Atlantic Records
.