Kiss Presents Hip Hop Classics [PA] - Various Artists

Advantages: Good mixture of tracks, appeals to a large audience
Disadvantages: Some bad track selections

A fairly solid CD offering a diverse range of hip hop tracks from the real old skool classics from KRS-One, Sugarhill Gang and Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five to some of your more well known and newer artists such as Eminem LL Cool J and Outkast. IT has tracks that appeal to all ears and is quite inciteful into the world of hip hop both from old times and new. However, some of the tune selections do not perhaps show the true essence of hip ... Read review

Advantages: Hip-Hop Tracks From All Over The Decades.
Disadvantages: ???

Jay Z ??? Eminem ??? Dr. Dre ??? Whoever you like, you;re sure to come across them and many other people you are not aware of. Not only does this CD showcase the brilliant talents of the current Hip Hop stars including Eminem, Dr Dre and Jay-Z, it also features some of the older Hip Hop songs, original tracks which can be said to be better than some recent releases. I bought this when it first came out and I was very pleased with it. I got to ...
...to when they were youngsters. The coolness of LL Cool J, mashed in with the controversy of Eminem...cannot go wrong. I like most of the tracks on this CD and found it very useful to have information about the tracks on the sleeve as well. What I didn't do much like about it was, that i'm a hip hop fan and have lots of Hip Hop CDs and some of the songs on this CD are repeated on many other Hip Hop compilations. I highly recommend this to any Hip ... Read review

Advantages: All Famours artist, Good Music, Addictive.
Disadvantages: may feature rapper you dont like.

KISS has a good history of producing interesting compilations particularly in R&B. This double disc features some outstanding production from Dr Dre, the Neptunes, Timbaland, Warren G and performances from 2 Pac, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Eve, Public Enemy No1 to mention but a few. It is a good attempt at compiling Hip Hop Classic collection, but it fails to pick some of the best and more original tracks from artists like Missy Elliot, choosing instead ...
...Furthermore it repeats artists like Snoop Dogg & Ja Rule instead of perhaps adding other classic tracks from different artists. This does not mean that Snoop Dogg and Ja Rule are not good because they are, particularly Snoop Dogg who proves his talent on all the tracks that feature him on the CD. Stand Out tracks from Disc One include: LET ME BLOW YOUR MIND - production Dr Dre; Eve & Gwen Stefani give a grammy winning performance that definitely ... Read review

Advantages: Good Classic Hip-Hop Songs
Disadvantages: None

...As most of you will know, Kiss, the popular radio station and music channel are always bringing out various artist Rap/Hip-Hop and also R'n'B collections. This Hip-Hop classics is one of Kiss's most recent presentations. With 2 discs, there are some great hip-hop classics thrown into this collection. Whether you are a hip-hop fan or not, you will know most, if not all of these hip-hop classics from the 90's and some even earlier. This collection is a 2 disc set, which has 19 songs on each disc. So, on with the songs. (Note: Some will be explained long, but others not so long as I am reviewing 38 songs!) Disc 1 ●Dr Dre ft. Eminem - Forgot About Dre● This song is a fantastic one to start off a hip-hop classics album, as Dr Dre is the first, most popular and best selling hip-hop/rap artist and producer, closely... Read review

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