Released December 16, 1997 Release date 16 December 1997 | Recorded 1994-97 Label PolyGram | |
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Length 1 hour, 13 minutes, 37 seconds The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits (1997) The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 2 (1998) Genres Hip hop music, Urban contemporary Similar The Source Presents: Hip Hop, The Source Presents: Hip Hop, The Source Presents: Hip Hop, The Source Presents: Hip Hop, Fat festa | ||
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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits is the first annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine. Released December 16, 1997 and distributed through Polygram Records, Hip Hop Hits Volume 1 features eighteen hip hop and rap hits. It went to number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart (making it the highest charting Hip Hop Hits album on that chart to date) and peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Contents
Five tracks on the album had reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart: "Bow Down," "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", "Crush on You," "Elevators" and "Hypnotize". Two of the songs, "Hypnotize" and "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" reached number-one on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and pop charts.
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Track listing
- Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.
- Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan
- Look Into My Eyes - Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- Da Joint - EPMD
- Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy and Mase
- Bout It, Bout It - Master P
- Front Lines (Hell on Earth) - Mobb Deep
- Mary Jane - Scarface
- Big Bad Momma - Foxy Brown and Dru Hill
- Firm Biz - The Firm (Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ and Nature)
- Bow Down - Westside Connection
- Whateva Man - Redman
- Elevators (Me & You) - OutKast
- Crush on You - Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease
- I'll Be - Foxy Brown and Jay-Z
- We Trying to Stay Alive - Wyclef Jean and Refugee Camp All-Stars
- Phenomenon - LL Cool J
- Hay - Crucial Conflict
Songs
1HypnotizeThe Notorious BIG4:04
2TriumphWu-Tang Clan - Cappadonna5:38
3Look Into My EyezBone Thugs-N-Harmony4:22