| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/priority | | UPC: 00049925107029 | | Release Date: 2/17/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60162316 | | Item#: MC6D4G | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Breaks, The - Kurtis Blow ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Message, The - Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel/Duke Bootee ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa/Soul Sonic Force ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Fat Boys - The Fat Boys ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Roxanne, Roxanne - UTFO ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Show, The - Doug E. Fresh & Get Fresh Crew/The Get Fresh Crew ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Freaks Come Out At Night - Whodini ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Overweight Lovers In The House, The - Heavy D & The Boyz ~ Various Artists | | | 9. South Bronx - Boogie Down Productions ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Rock The Bells - LL Cool J ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Bridge, The - M.C. Shan ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Message, The - Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel/Duke Bootee ('98 remix) ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Released to coincide with the first showing of MTV's program This Is Music: Hip-Hop Back in the Day, MTV Presents: Hip-Hop Back in the Day is an excellent collection of early rap hits. While a handful of the songs stretch past old-school and into the late '80s (Boogie Down Productions' "South Bronx," LL Cool J's "Rock the Bells," Tone-Loc's "Funky Cold Medina," MC Shan's "The Bridge"), the majority of the collection is devoted to early- and mid-'80s hits like Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks," Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," the Fat Boys' "Fat Boys," U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne, Roxanne," Doug E. Fresh's "The Show," Whodini's "Freaks Come Out at Night," and Heavy D's "The Overweight Lovers in the House." Almost every one of these tracks was a hip-hop milestone, and this isn't a bad way to pick them up on one disc, even if the presence of the bonus 1998 remix of "The Message" leaves a bitter aftertaste. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | MTV HIP HOP BACK IN THE DAY hearkens back to the scratch-happy early days of hip-hop music, when what would become a billion dollar industry was still the property of the streets. Beginning with Kurtis Blow's hard-times classic "The Breaks" and continuing through to Tone-Loc's 1989 smash "Funky Cold Medina," the album traces the rise of hip hop from urban party entertainment to global conquest. | | Contrasted with ultra-violent '90s rap, the tracks on MTV HIP HOP BACK IN THE DAY possess a sort of innocence, though they were the stuff of public outrage then, much as the early days of rock seem tame by today's standards, though they weren't viewed that way at the time. Doug E. Fresh's "The Show" and the Fat Boys' self-titled track seem to be more about entertainment than intimidation--there's plenty of dissing going on, (especially in U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne," which resulted in a war waged almost entirely on wax between rival groups), but it's more in the spirit of fun, and the artists are quicker to go in for self-deprecation than for drive-by shootings. By the time of Boogie Down Productions' "South Bronx," that lesson may have already been missed. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/17/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 51070 | | Label : Priority Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00049925107029 |
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