Hip Hop Essentials - Vol. 8

Again this volume is trying to find a balance between well known hit songs and some deeper tracks and again there is a discussion about which tracks should be chosen. Seriously create your own compilation!

A song such as "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five should be on any hip hop compilation. Discussing that a track should not be on it because it IS on every compilation seems rather weird to me. Why do you think it is on it?

And sure, Tommy Boy could have chosen another track than "Colors" by Ice-T, but there must be at least a dozen to choose from when it comes to Ice-T, so that is always a subjective choice? Besides that, the question is, if the chosen track does represent hip hop history and not Ice-T's work. And it does.

More great tracks on this album, just naming a few: "Check the Rhime" (A Tribe Called Quest), the weird disco hop song "Funk You up" from the Sequence, the very representative "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren and not to forget:

Track		Artist		Song		BPM
1		Sequence		Funk You Up		104
2		Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five		The Message		100
3		Schoolly D		Gucci Time		95
4		Ice-T		Colors		93
5		Salt-N-Pepa		Push It		128
6		3rd Bass		The Gas Face		101
7		Brand Nubian		Slow Down		95
8		Heavy D & The Boyz		Mr. Big Stuff		100
9		A Tribe Called Quest		Check The Rhyme		96
10		Malcolm McLaren		Buffalo Gals		109
11		De La Soul		Buddy ('Native Tongue Decision' Version)		99
12		Kurtis Blow		If I Ruled The World		96