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.^[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 Here – DMX
2. I'm A Thug – Trick Daddy
3. I'm Real – Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez
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
7. Ride Wit Me – Nelly and City Spud
8. Purple Pills – D12
9. – 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. – The Iconz (producers)
16. So Fresh, So Clean – Outkast, 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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