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 (Long Version) - The Sugarhill Gang
2. Funk You Up (Long Version) - The Sequence
3. Rapper's Reprise (Jam-Jam) - The Sugarhill Gang
4. Super-Wolf Can Do It (Short Version) - Super-Wolf
5. Hot Hot Summer Day - Sugarhill Gang
6. And You Know That (Short Version) - Sequence
7. Freedom - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5
8. Monster Jam - Spoonie Gee Meets The Sequence
9. Baby Let's Rap Now (Pt. 2) - The Moments
10. People Get On Up - Positive Force

Disc 2:

1. 8th Wonder - The Sugarhill Gang
2. That's The Joint - Funky 4 + 1
3. The Birthday Party - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
4. Check It Out - Wayne & Charlie (The Rapping Dummy)
5. The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel - Grandmaster Flash
6. Showdown - The Furious Five Meets The Sugarhill Gang
7. Let's Dance (Make Your Body Move) - West Street Mob
8. Spoonie Is Back - Spoonie Gee
9. Apache - Sugar Hill Gang
10. It's Nasty (Genius Of Love) (Short Version) - Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five

Disc 3:

1. Hey Fellas (Long Version) - Trouble Funk
2. Sing A Simple Song - West Street Mob
3. It's Good To Be The Queen - Sylvia
4. The Lover In You - Sugarhill Gang
5. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
6. Whip It - Trecherous Three
7. Scratching - Crash Crew
8. Ooh Baby (Short Version) - West Street Mob
9. Scorpio - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five
10. Making Cash Money - Busy Bee
11. Here Comes The Bride - Sequence

Disc 4:

1. Message II (Survival) - Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
2. Breaking Bells (Take Me To Mardi Gras) - Crash Crew
3. Yes We Can-Can - Treacherous Three
4. The Word Is Out - Sugarhill Gang
5. New York New York - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five
6. Girls - Sugar Hill Gang
7. Kick It Live From 9 To 5 - Sugar Hill Gang
8. Break Dance-Electric Boogie - West Street Mob
9. All Night Long (Waterbed) - Kevie Kev (Waterbed Kev)
10. At The Ice Arcade - Chilly Kids
11. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (Long Version) - Grandmaster & Melle Mel
12. We Are Known As Emcees (We Turn Party's Out) - Crash Crew

Disc 5:

1. Jesse - Grandmaster Melle Mel
2. Beat Street (From The Motion Picture Beat Street) - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
3. Livin' In The Fast Lane - Sugar Hill Gang
4. We Don't Work For Free - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
5. Step Off - The Furious Five
6. Xmas Rap (Un-Censored) - Trecherous Three
7. Busy Bee's Groove - Busy Bee
8. Turn It Up - Treacherous Three
9. The Down Beat - The Sugarhill Gang
10. Vice (From Miami Vice) - Grandmaster Melle Mel
11. Outta Control - Miracle Mike & The Ladies Of The 80's
12. Street Walker (Original) - Mass Production
13. The Message ('97 Dungeon Mix) - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five

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.