Mtv First 1000 Years: Hip Hop

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00002MZ18
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,785 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Message - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five

2. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.

3. Colors - Ice-T

4. Wild Thing - Tone Loc

5. Express Yourself - N.W.A.

6. The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

7. Jump Around - House Of Pain

8. Tennessee - Arrested Development

9. Who Am I (What's My Name)? - Snoop Doggy Dogg

10. Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - Digable Planets

11. It Was a Good Day - Ice Cube

12. Nuthin' But a "G" Thang - Dr.Dre

13. Fantastic Voyage - Coolio

14. Player's Ball - Outkast

15. California Love - 2 Pac

16. Make Em Say Ugh [Clean Version] - Master P

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, January 27, 2000

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Yianni64 (Frisco, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mtv First 1000 Years: Hip Hop (Audio CD)

I think this is the best rap collection EVER! I have seen many come and go but this one can not me denied. MTV has suprisingly put together a great album to go in anyone's cd rack. The first 1000 of rock, r&b, and new wave are all also awsome.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a great CD (some of which MTV even aired!), January 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mtv First 1000 Years: Hip Hop (Audio CD)

There is, of course, a great irony in MTV even releasing a hip-hop compiliation, given the network's near-constant antipathy towards black music, ignoring everything from Michael Jackson to rap until its commercial supremacy made airing it inevitable (and even then it was relegated to Yo, unless you were white). There are many huge artists missing here-- LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature and the Beastie Boys are the major absences, and if MTV REALLY wanted to give us a history of the rap it aired, the disc would be dominated by such pop poseurs as Vanilla Ice, Snow, and Hammer. But let's be honest-- quibbling aside, cognitive dissonance never sounded this funky, and it's important to note all the wonderful selections we do get-- Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube, NWA, Run-DMC, Arrested Development, Snoop, and above all, the Digital Underground. A great party disc, and a nice introduction to twenty years of hip-hop. Let's just hope in the future, MTV has the courage and foresight to contemporaneously support the artists they deify in retrospect, instead of just jumping on every easy bandwagon.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hip hop at its best, April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mtv First 1000 Years: Hip Hop (Audio CD)

DA BOMB CD BABY!BUY IT NOW!WHAT YA WAITING FOR!