Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Easily the two most overused words in music criticism are essential and classic. That said, this five-CD box set is all that and a bag of chips to boot. Back in the late 1970s, the small Sugar Hill Records label changed the nature of the rap genre with the music, made with a live band, that they released--and the beats still sound on point today. This box set features tracks from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Sequence, the Sugarhill Gang, the Funky 4 + 1, and the Treacherous 3 (to name just a few) and classic tracks like 'The Message,' 'Freedom,' and 'Rapper's Delight.' In other words, classic, essential party music that still rocks the house. Everybody say ho! --Amy Linden

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Disc 1:

1. Rapper's Delight - Edwards, Bernard
2. Funk You Up - Robinson, Sylvia
3. Rapper's Reprise - Robinson, Sylvia
4. Super-Wolf Can Do It - Wolf, James
5. Hot Hot Summer Day - Wimbish, Douglas
6. And You Know That - Chase, Jiggs
7. Freedom - Glover, Melvin
8. Monster Jam - Jackson, Gabriel
9. Baby Let's Rap Now, Pt. 2 - Keith, Tommy
10. People Get on Up - Williams, Bert

Disc 2:

1. 8th Wonder - Cook, Cheryl
2. That's the Joint - Caesar, Keith
3. The Birthday Party - Chase, Jiggs
4. Check It Out - Garland, Wayne
5. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel - Chase, Jiggs
6. Showdown - Robinson, Sylvia
7. Let's Dance (Make Your Body Move) - Henderson, Wayne
8. Spoonie Is Back - Jackson, Gabriel
9. Apache - Chase, Jiggs
10. It's Nasty (Genius of Love) - Frantz, Christopher

Disc 3:

1. Hey Fellas - Reed, Robert
2. Sing a Simple Song - Robinson Jr., Joey
3. It's Good to Be the Queen - Brooks, Mel
4. The Lover in You - Wingfield, Pete
5. The Message - Fletcher, Edward
6. Whip It - Andrews, Reggie
7. Scratching - Belton Jr., George
8. Ooh Baby - Robinson Jr., Joey
9. Scorpio - Glover, Melvin
10. Making Cash Money - Robinson, Sylvia
11. Here Comes the Bride - Cook, Cheryl

Disc 4:

1. Message II (Survival) - Robinson, Sylvia
2. Breaking Bells (Take Me to the Mardi Gras) - Simon, Pau
3. Yes We Can-Can - Toussaint, Allen
4. The Word Is Out - Wimbish, Doug
5. New York, New York - Fletcher, Edward
6. Girls - Ray, Harry
7. Kick It Live from 9 to 5 - Hepburn, Michael
8. Break Dancin' (Electric Boogie) - Lordan, Jerr
9. All Night Long - James, Rick
10. At the Ice Arcade - Robinson, Sylvia
11. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Robinson, Sylvia
12. We Are Known as Emcees (We Turn Party's Out) - Belton Jr., George

Disc 5:

1. Jesse - Glover, Melvin
2. Beat Street - Glover, Melvin
3. Livin' in the Fast Lane - OBrien, Guy
4. We Don't Work for Free - Savage, Clayton
5. Step Off - Gamble, Kenneth
6. Xmas Rap - Dewese, Moe
7. Busy Bee's Groove - Parker, Dave
8. Turn It Up - Dewese, Moe
9. The Down Beat - Dewese, Moe
10. Vice - Glover, Melvin
11. Outta Control - Carriel, Michael
12. Street Walker - Williams, Terry
13. The Message - Fletcher, Edward

Rating: - Where's the Vinyl?
Great, important, fun collection! I have to ask--why does the photo show vinyl, but no vinyl was shipped to me? Only CDs. Years ago, my girlfriend at the time got this collection, and there may have been an all-vinyl release (can't remember for sure). Regardless, she had some vinyl and I remember some songs that are missing from the 5 CD set I received. (For example, "Super Wolf Can Do It" was reprised as a quasi karaoke version called "Anybody Can Do It," letting you rap your own lyrics over it. Did I get short changed?

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Rating: - A HISTORY LESSON IN ITSELF
you know what i hate? i hate that these young folk today do not have any respect for da TRUE SCHOOL. i remember watching that MAKING THE BAND when DA BAND was on there (what a friggin' joke!!!!!) and diddy told them to do RAPPER'S DELIGHT and none of them knew it. i thought that all of them should've been sent home right there.

young or old, get this!!!! no, it does not tell the whole story, but it will up you on where a lot of these "new artists" are getting their ideas from. any young cats that are reading this, respect da TRUE SCHOOL!!!! i thank you.

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Rating: - The Real Deal
So many people have forgot about where Hip-Hop started and some of the greatest MC's such as Melly Mel. This album is most important piece of my Hip-Hop collection.

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Rating: - Good dance music
I like to dance on HipHopmusic, so that's why I like these CD'S so much. It's real old stuff of the '80 and the beginning of the '90.

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Rating: - It's a rappers delight!!!
This album goes way back to the beginning of rapmusic. Back to the days of broken glas everywhere and casanovo fly. You can't have better than this. The godfathers of rap are in the house.