The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits

The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	December 16, 1997
Recorded	1994-97
Genre	Hip hop, rap, Mainstream urban
Length	1 hour, 13 minutes, 37 seconds
Label	Polygram
The Source chronology
The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits (1997) The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 2 (1998)

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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits is the first annual music compilation album^[2] to be contributed by The Source magazine.^[3][4] Released December 16, 1997 and distributed through Polygram Records, Hip Hop Hits Volume 1 features eighteen hip hop and rap hits. It went to number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart (making it the highest charting Hip Hop Hits album on that chart to date) and peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200 album chart.^[5]

Five tracks on the album had reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart: "Bow Down," "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", "Crush on You," "Elevators" and "Hypnotize". Two of the songs, "Hypnotize" and "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" reached number-one on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and pop charts.

Track listing

1. Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.
2. Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan
3. Look Into My Eyes - Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
4. Da Joint - EPMD
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy and Mase
6. Bout It, Bout It - Master P
7. Front Lines (Hell on Earth) - Mobb Deep
8. Mary Jane - Scarface
9. Big Bad Momma - Foxy Brown and Dru Hill
10. Firm Biz - The Firm (Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ and Nature)
11. Bow Down - Westside Connection
12. Whateva Man - Redman
13. Elevators (Me & You) - OutKast
14. Crush on You - Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease
15. I'll Be - Foxy Brown and Jay-Z
16. We Trying to Stay Alive - Wyclef Jean and Refugee Camp All-Stars
17. Phenomenon - LL Cool J
18. Hay - Crucial Conflict

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