Greatest Hits (2002) (Import)

Product Summary Label: Msi Music UPC: 00743219204622 Release Date: 4/2/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60555337 Item#: MXJ3WT Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Hard Knock Life - (radio edit) ~ Jay-Z 2. Wishing On A Star - (radio edit) ~ Jay-Z 3. Sunshine - (radio edit, with Foxy Brown/Babyface) ~ Jay-Z 4. City Is Mine - (album version, with Blackstreet) ~ Jay-Z 5. Can't Knock The Hustle - (radio edit, with Mary J. Blige) ~ Jay-Z 6. Ain't No Nigga - (original radio edit, with Foxy Brown) ~ Jay-Z 7. Imaginary Player ~ Jay-Z 8. Money Ain't A Thang - (with Jermaine Dupri) ~ Jay-Z 9. Can I Get A... - (with Amil/Ja Rule) ~ Jay-Z 10. Streets Is Watching ~ Jay-Z 11. Money, Cash, Hoes - (with DMX) ~ Jay-Z 12. I Know What Girls Like (Fly Girl Dub) - (Fly Girly Dub, with Puff Daddy/Lil' Kim) ~ Jay-Z 13. Feelin' It - (with Mecca) ~ Jay-Z 14. Dead Presidents Ii ~ Jay-Z 15. Wishing On A Star - (D Influence remix, bonus track) ~ Jay-Z 16. Can't Knock The Hustle (Fools Paradise Remix) - (Fool's Paradise remix, with Melissa Morgan) ~ Jay-Z 17. Ain't No Nigga - (Rae & Christian mix, with Foxy Brown) ~ Jay-Z   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info CHAPTER ONE: GREATEST HITS collects early successes by rapper Jay-Z. Personnel: Jay-Z (rap vocals); Mary J. Blige, Babyface (vocals); Foxy Brown , Ja Rule, Jermaine Dupri, Lil' Kim, Puff Daddy (rap vocals). A greatest-hits compilation was inevitable, but possibly too soon. Taking things up to right before 1999's Life and Times of S. Carter, this compiles all of the earliest Jay-Z anthems onto one disc, quite possibly to ride off of the success of the Blueprint and Unplugged releases. These tracks are infectious and wildly pop-savvy hip-hop masterpieces that laid the groundwork for the R&B/hip-hop charts for the past decade, and they show Jay-Z in some of the finest moments of his career. It's a smart idea, but the album could have been much stronger had more recent material been included in place of remixes as bonus tracks. That said, fans unfamiliar with his classic early work should start here. Die-hard loyalists most likely have everything noteworthy already. ~ Rob Theakston Musical Guests Foxy Brown Lil' Kim Mary J. Blige DMX Jermaine Dupri   Compilation Appearances Life After Death (Explicit Version) Hardcore (Explicit Version) Ill Na Na (Explicit Version) No Way Out (Explicit Version) Soul Food Harlem World (Explicit Version) Vol. 1-Traffic Jams (Explicit Version) Players Club (Explicit Version) R. (Explicit Version) First Family 4 Life (Explicit Version) Streets Is Watching 400 Degreez (Explicit Version) Life After Death (Clean Version) Vol. 2-Hip Hop Hits (Explicit Version) Flesh Of My Flesh-Blood Of My (Clean Version) Vol. 1-Ryde Or Die (Explicit Version) Venni Vetti Vecci (Explicit Version) Coming Of Age (Explicit Version) Forever (Explicit Version) Tunnel (Explicit Version) Truth (Explicit Version) Last Of A Dying Breed (Explicit Version) Understanding (Explicit Version) Miss E...So Addictive (Explicit Version) Miss E...So Addictive (Clean Version) Reason (Explicit Version) Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits Concert For New York Come Home With Me (Explicit Version) Fix (Explicit Version) Paid In Full (Explicit Version) Greatest Hits (Bonus Tracks) (Explicit Version) Charmbracelet Concert For New York City (SACD) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Explicit Version) Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below (Clean Version) Girl Interrupted (Explicit Version) Under Construction (Clean Version) 8 Mile (Explicit Version) Under Construction (Explicit Version) Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss (Explicit Version) Philadelphia Freeway (Explicit Version) Dangerously In Love (Bonus Tracks) Bad Boys II (Explicit Version) Bad Boys II (Clean Version) Love & Life Neptunes Present...clones (Explicit Version) Scarface-Music Inspired By (Explicit Version) This Is Not A Test (Clean Version) Def Jamaica (Explicit Version) R. In R&b Collection Vol. 1 Vol. 14-Now That's What I Call Music M.a.d.e. 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Instrumental Renditions of Jay-Z's G ~ Various Artists International Gangster [PA] ~ Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 03/11/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 86098 Label : BMG (distributor) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00743219204622