The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5
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| Compilation album by Various artists | ||||
| Released | December 18, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | various times | |||
| Genre | Hip hop, rap, Mainstream urban | |||
| Length | unknown | |||
| Label | Def Jam Recordings | |||
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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. 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.
The edited version of the compilation featured substitute clean titles: Purple Hills, Project Chick and Get Crunked Up.
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