The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5

The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5
Compilation album by Various artists
Released December 18, 2001
Recorded various times
Genre Hip hop, rap, Mainstream urban
Length unknown
Label Def Jam Recordings
The Source chronology

The Source Hip Hop Music Awards 2001 (2001) The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5 (2001) The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 6 (2002)
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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 5 is the fifth annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine.[2] Released December 18, 2001 and distributed by Def Jam Recordings, Hip Hop Hits Volume 5 features sixteen hip hop and rap hits (two of them are bonus tracks). It went to number 37 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and peaked at number 48 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Purple Pills (or Purple Hills) is the only number-one Hot Rap Tracks hit on Volume 5. Likewise, the album is the second in Hip Hop Hits series to feature a Billboard Hot 100 number one hit (Volume 1 is first): I'm Real. It is the fourth Hip Hop Hits album not to feature a number-one hit on the R&B/Hip Hop chart.

Track listing

  1. We Right Here - DMX
  2. I'm A Thug - Trick Daddy
  3. I'm Real - Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez (Murder remix)
  4. Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve and Gwen Stefani
  5. Area Codes - Ludacris and Nate Dogg
  6. Bad Boy For Life - P. Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry
  7. Ride Wit Me - Nelly and City Spud
  8. Purple Pills - D12
  9. Bang Ta Dis - Benzino
  10. Oh Yeah - Foxy Brown and Spragga Benz
  11. Front 2 Back - Xzibit
  12. Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
  13. Project Bitch - Cash Money Millionaires, Big Tymers, Lil Wayne and Juvenile
  14. Put Ya Hands Up - Jadakiss
  15. Bonus: Get Fucked Up - Iconz
  16. Bonus: So Fresh, So Clean - Outkast, Snoop Dogg and Sleepy Brown (remix)

Alternate titles

The edited version of the compilation featured substitute clean titles: Purple Hills, Project Chick and Get Crunked Up.

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