The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5

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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5
Hip Hop Hits 5.jpg
Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedDecember 18, 2001
Recordedvarious times
GenreHip hop, rap, Mainstream urban
Lengthunknown
LabelDef 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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3/5 stars[1]

The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 5 is the fifth annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine.[1] 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 HereDMX
  2. I'm A ThugTrick Daddy
  3. I'm RealJa Rule and Jennifer Lopez
  4. Let Me Blow Ya MindEve and Gwen Stefani
  5. Area CodesLudacris and Nate Dogg
  6. Bad Boy For LifeP. Diddy, Black Rob and
  7. Ride Wit MeNelly and City Spud
  8. Purple PillsD12
  9. Benzino
  10. Oh YeahFoxy Brown and Spragga Benz
  11. Front 2 BackXzibit
  12. Get Ur Freak OnMissy Elliott
  13. Project BitchCash Money Millionaires, Big Tymers, Lil Wayne and Juvenile
  14. Put Ya Hands UpJadakiss
  15. The Iconz (producers)
  16. So Fresh, So CleanOutkast, Snoop Dogg and Sleepy Brown

Alternate titles[]

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

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