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Track Listing
1. White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
2. Walk This Way - Run-DMC
3. Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
4. Humpty Dance, The - Digital Underground
5. Bust a Move - Young M.C.
6. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
7. U Can't Touch This - M.C. Hammer
8. Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
9. Around the Way Girl - LL Cool J
10. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn
11. Tennessee - Arrested Development
12. Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz
13. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
14. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
15. Jump Around - House Of Pain
16. Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
17. What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
18. Nuthin' But a "G" Thang - Dr. Dre
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
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.
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.
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