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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Need a Beat - LL Cool J
2. It's the Beat
3. Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
4. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
5. Rain, The - Oran "Juice" Jones
6. Going Back to Cali - LL Cool J
7. Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
8. It's Yours - T La Rock
9. I Need Love - LL Cool J
10. Children's Story - Slick Rick
11. Gas Face, The - 3rd Bass (remix)
12. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
DISC 2:
1. Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
2. Gold Digger
3. Pop Goes the Weasel - 3rd Bass
4. Daddy's Little Girl - Nikki D
5. Room to Breathe - Downtown Science
6. Time 4 Sum Aksion - Redman
7. Slam
8. Deeper - (featuring Papa Juggy)
9. Crossover
10. Bring the Pain - Method Man
11. Hip Hop Junkies - Nice & Smooth
12. Regulate - Warren G - (featuring Nate Dogg)
DISC 3:
1. This is How We do It - Montell Jordan
2. Stand Up - Ludacris - (featuring Shawnna)
3. Holla Holla - Ja Rule
4. Touch Me Tease Me
5. I'll be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By - Method Man - (featuring Mary J. Blige)
6. Get Me Home - (featuring Blackstreet)
7. Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
8. Get at Me Dog
9. Doin' It - LL Cool J
10. Da Rockwilder - Method Man/Redman
11. Party Up (Up in Here)
12. Tell 'Em - Erick Sermon
DISC 4:
1. 99 Problems
2. Thong Song
3. Just Friends (Sunny) - Musiq Soulchild
4. Put it on Me - Ja Rule
5. Is That Your Chick (The Lost Verses) - Memphis Bleek - (featuring Missy Elliott/Twista)
6. Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
7. Truth, The - Beanie Sigel
8. Oh Boy - Cam'Ron - (featuring Juelz Santana)
9. Guess Who's Back - Scarface - (featuring Beanie Sigel)
10. What We Do - Freeway - (featuring Beanie Sigel)
11. Southern Hospitality - Ludacris - (featuring Pharrell)
12. Jesus Walks - Kanye West
DISC 5:
1. Gold Digger - Kanye West - (featuring Jamie Foxx)
2. And Then What - Young Jeezy - (featuring Mannie Fresh)
3. There it Go (The Whistle Song) - Juelz Santana
4. Hustlin' - Rick Ross
5. Back Like That - Ghostface Killah
6. So Sick
7. Hip Hop is Dead - (featuring Will.I.Am)
8. Don't Feel Right - (featuring Maimouna Youssef)
9. Umbrella - Rihanna
10. Make Me etter - Fabolous
11. Shawty is Da Sh*! - The-Dream
12. Put On - Young Jeezy - (featuring Kanye West)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Beanie Sigel, Blackstreet, Jamie Foxx, Juelz Santana, Kanye West, Maimouna Youssef, Mannie Fresh, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, Nate Dogg, Papa Juggy, Pharrell, Shawnna, Twista, Will.I.Am | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This 4-CD, 59-song box set marks the ten year anniversary of the Def Jam Music Group. It includes a 64-page full color booklet with photographs, liner notes and track-by-track annotations.
Liner Note Author: Bill Adler.
Photographers: Ricky Powell; Lionel Deluy; Albert Watson; Dean Karr; Wayne Maser; Clay Patrick McBride; Jules Allen; James Hamilton; Danny Clinch.
Def Jam scored an almost unfathomable streak of hits during the opening years of the golden age of hip-hop. The legendary label founded by Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons launched the careers of LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, and many others. This sleekly packaged four-disc box set, released in 1994, chronicles the halcyon years of the imprint. The set features smash hits like "Around the Way Girl," "Fight the Power," and "Fight for Your Right" from the abovementioned superstars, alongside groundbreaking singles like Slick Rick's "Children's Story" and Onyx's "Slam," winding up as hip-hop took its next turn with tracks like Method Man's "Bring the Pain."
Industry Reviews
Tied for #7 on the Reissues list of Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/20/1996)
Ranked #2 on NME's `Compilations Of The Year' list for 1995.
...Def Jam's courtship of major label music...helped create a pop-culture juggernaut, one that shredded conventions on television rather than on the indie circuit...not only captures the highlights of rap's premier label, but shows how hip-hop grew up before our eyes...
Musician (02/01/1996)
Bloody Essential - ...you can crash in here at random and...hear something that pipes more feeling, open intelligence, wild imagination and a simple sonic appeal into a couple of minutes than the whole of this week's...charts....The only real recommendation is capital letters saying LISTEN...
Melody Maker (12/02/1995)
10 (out of 10) - ...Def Jam...is probably the only record label in history that can truly claim to have altered the musical landscape both dramatically and permanently....this awesome collection...[is] an absolute must-steal for anyone with an interest in uncompromising, insurrectionary music....This, in short, is the shit...
NME (11/25/1995)
5 Stars - Indispensable - It's almost trite to say, but Def Jam is the most important black music label since Atlantic and Motown....The other astonishing thing about this wholly remarkable label is that it has continued to be vital and innovative throughout its 11-year history...
Q (01/01/1996)
7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...the stable that introduced hip-hop's new-school generation...presenting brash artists with trademark personae, 'round the way allegiances, and prodigious enough rhyme skills to last an entire album....Get this to hear hip-hop's conquest of pop play out on your stereo...
Spin (12/01/1995)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...a sound on the New York streets...the driving force behind the most musically influential--and financially succesful--new record label of the '80s....its initial breakthrough, its stormy maturation and, finally, its establishment as a major industry player...
Rolling Stone (12/14/1995)
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