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The Hip Hop Box

Editor's Review:

They say, “to know where you’re going, you must know where you’ve been.” That phrase can be applied to music, especially to a relatively new genre like hip-hop. And now, someone has finally put together an extensive collection of important and innovative hip-hop tracks, entitled The Hip Hop Box. This box set celebrates 25 years of hip-hop, starting in 1979 with The Sugarhill Gang’s big bang theory of rap, “Rapper’s Delight,” all the way to 2003, with 50 Cent’s “21 Questions” (which the box dubs as “hip-hop’s new millennium equivalent of ‘I Need Love’”). Spanning through four CDs and over 51 tracks, The Box breaks hip-hop down into a chronological roller-coaster ride through the vaults of rap, hitting high and low points, yet never losing track of providing historically innovative songs.
The Hip Hop Box is more than a best of; it’s a tool of education for new jacks and a stroll down memory lane for the old school that have been there. Although The Box misses some of hip-hop’s big names like LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, E-40 and Eminem, forgets to include a solo Notorious B.I.G. or Snoop Dogg track and features some tracks that might have people questioning the selection, it still manages to create a useful and respected account of hip-hop over the past 25 years. It’s Hip-Hop 101 in the form of four CDs.
- Paul Davis
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Record Label Hip-O Records - 4x CD box set
Released May 2004

Tracks

Disc: 1

  1. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
  2. Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
  3. Treacherous Three - The Body Rock
  4. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
  5. Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five Featuring Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - The Message
  6. Run D.M.C. - Sucker M.C.'S (Krush-Groove 1)
  7. UTFO - Roxanne Roxanne
  8. Roxanne Shante - Roxanne's Revenge
  9. Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
  10. Too $hort - Freaky Tales
  11. Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West

Disc: 2

  1. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
  2. Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
  3. Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher
  4. M.C. Hammer - Turn This Mutha Out
  5. Public Enemy - Fight The Power
  6. The 2 Live Crew - Me So Horny
  7. Biz Markie - Just A Friend
  8. De La Soul (featuring Jungle Brothers, Q-Tip, Phife, Queen Latifah & Monie Love) - Buddy
  9. 3rd Bass - The Gas Face
  10. A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
  11. Main Source - Looking At The Front Door
  12. Chubb Rock- Treat 'Em Right

Disc: 3

  1. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
  2. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
  3. DJ Quik - Tonite
  4. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
  5. Arrested Development - Tennessee
  6. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
  7. Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
  8. The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
  9. Onyx - Slam
  10. Queen latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
  11. Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
  12. Warren G. & Nate Dogg - Regulate
  13. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
  14. Method Man Featuring Mary J. Blige - I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By

Disc: 4

  1. Redman & Method Man - How High (Remix)
  2. Junior M.A.F.I.A (Featuring Little Caesar, Lil Kim & The Notorious B.I.G.) - Gettin' Money
  3. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
  4. Scarface Featuring 2Pac & Johnny P. - Smile
  5. Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
  6. Timbaland & Magoo - Luv 2 Luv U
  7. Gang Starr - You Know My Steez
  8. DMX (Featuring Sheek Of The Lox) - Get At Me Dog
  9. Noreaga - Superthug
  10. The Roots Featuring Jill Scott - You Got Me
  11. Common - The Light
  12. 2Pac - Until The End Of Time
  13. 50 Cent Featuring Nate Dogg - 21 Questions
  14. Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode
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