Released December 18, 2001 Length unknown Label Def Jam Recordings | Recorded various times Release date 18 December 2001 | |
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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 5 is the fifth annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine. Released December 18, 2001, and distributed by Def Jam Recordings, Hip Hop Hits Volume 5 features sixteen hip hop and rap hits (two of them are bonus tracks). It went to number 37 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and peaked at number 48 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Contents
Purple Pills (or Purple Hills) is the only number-one Hot Rap Tracks hit on Volume 5. Likewise, the album is the second in Hip Hop Hits series to feature a Billboard Hot 100 number one hit (Volume 1 is first): I'm Real. It is the fourth Hip Hop Hits album not to feature a number-one hit on the R&B/Hip Hop chart.
Track listing
- We Right Here – DMX
- I'm A Thug – Trick Daddy
- I'm Real – Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez
- Let Me Blow Ya Mind – Eve and Gwen Stefani
- Area Codes – Ludacris and Nate Dogg
- Bad Boy For Life – P. Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry
- Ride Wit Me – Nelly and City Spud
- Purple Pills – D12
- Bang Ta Dis – Benzino
- Oh Yeah – Foxy Brown and Spragga Benz
- Front 2 Back – Xzibit
- Get Ur Freak On – Missy Elliott
- Project Bitch – Cash Money Millionaires, Big Tymers, Lil Wayne and Juvenile
- Put Ya Hands Up – Jadakiss
- Get Fucked Up (The Iconz) – The Iconz (producers)
- So Fresh, So Clean – Outkast, Snoop Dogg and Sleepy Brown
Alternate titles
The edited version of the compilation featured substitute clean titles: Purple Hills, Project Chick and Get Crunked Up.
Songs
1We Right HereDMX4:34
2I'm a ThugTrick Daddy4:11
3I'm RealJennifer Lopez - Ja Rule4:12