Hip-Hop (1999) (Run-Dmc/Digital Underground )

Product Summary Label: Wea/rhino UPC: 00081227569921 Release Date: 5/4/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60298884 Item#: MWQQ77 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel ~ Various Artists 2. Walk This Way - Run-DMC ~ Various Artists 3. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc ~ Various Artists 4. Humpty Dance, The - Digital Underground ~ Various Artists 5. Bust A Move - Young M.C. ~ Various Artists 6. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock ~ Various Artists 7. U Can't Touch This - M.C. Hammer ~ Various Artists 8. Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ~ Various Artists 9. Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J ~ Various Artists 10. Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn ~ Various Artists 11. Tennessee - Arrested Development ~ Various Artists 12. Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz ~ Various Artists 13. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway ~ Various Artists 14. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot ~ Various Artists 15. Jump Around - House Of Pain ~ Various Artists 16. Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature ~ Various Artists 17. What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg ~ Various Artists 18. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Also available as part of a box set on Rhino (75939). Compilation producers: Garson Foos, Quincy Newell, David McLees. Includes liner notes by Jon Levy. Digitally remastered by Dave Schultz & Bill Inglot (DigiPrep). This is part of Rhino's Millenium Party series. Audio Remasterers: Dave Schultz; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: Quincy Newell. Photographers: Michael Ochs; Waring Abbott; Al Pereira; Raymond Boyd. One of Rhino's main gifts as a record label is that they know a good gimmick when they see it, and there's no better gimmick than the millennium. Hence, their series of Millennium Party albums. None of the Millennium discs demonstrate much imagination, but they do make a good argument that sometimes it's better to stick to the basics. For instance, Millennium Hip-Hop Party contains 18 tracks, most of them hits from the Bush era, but also a couple of earlier singles ("White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)," "Walk This Way," "Parents Just Don't Understand") and latter-day G-funk ("What's My Name," "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"). There are no surprises among these 18 songs, but when the core of the album features some of the best crossover rap ever made -- "Funky Cold Medina," "The Humpty Dance," "Bust a Move," "It Takes Two," "U Can't Touch This," "Around the Way Girl," "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," "Tennessee," "Now That We Found Love," "Good Vibrations," "Baby Got Back," "Jump Around," "Hip Hop Hooray" -- there really aren't any complaints to be made. In fact, there are few collections that offer a better primer of big hip-hop hits than this, and it's not a bad addition to any rap collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Those looking for a succinct compilation of the most popular anthems in the history of hip-hop up to 2000 could do far worse than MILLENNIUM HIP-HOP PARTY. Beginning with Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's admirable anti-drug broadside "White Lines (Don't Do It)," MILLENNIUM HIP HOP PARTY follows the path of hip-hop from the days when its roots were firmly grounded in street culture to the era in which a series of hip-hop anthems were thrust into the collective consciousness. Who will ever forget the phenomena of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This," House of Pain's "Jump Around," or Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back?" The tracks are arranged in chronological order. Early cuts like Run DMC's retooling of the Aerosmith classic "Walk This Way" (generally considered to have brought hip-hop to the American mainstream) give way to Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina," Young MC's "Bust a Move," and Rob Base & DJ Easy Rock's "It Takes Two." The closers here come courtesy of Dr. Dre ("Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang") and Snoop Doggy Dogg ("What's My Name") representing hip-hop in all its resplendent mid-'90s West Coast glory.   Technical Info Release Date : 05/04/1999 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 75699 Label : Rhino Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227569921    Product Image