Track Listing

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 - The Sugarhill Gang
6. And You Know That [Short Version] - The Sequence
7. Freedom - Grandmaster Flash
8. Monster Jam - Spoonie Gee
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. Birthday Party - Grandmaster Flash
4. Check It Out
5. Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel - Grandmaster Flash
6. Showdown - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
7. Let's Dance (Make Your Body Move) - West Street Mob
8. Spoonie Is Back - Spoonie Gee
9. Apache - The Sugarhill Gang
10. It's Nasty (Genius of Love) [Short Version] - Grandmaster Flash & the 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 Robinson
4. Lover in You - The Sugarhill Gang
5. Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
6. Whip It - Treacherous Three
7. Scratching - Crash Crew
8. Ooh Baby [Short Version] - West Street Mob
9. Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash
10. Making Cash Money - Busy Bee
11. Here Comes the Bride - The Sequence

Disc 4:

1. Message II (Survival) - Melle Mel & the Furious 5
2. Breaking Bells (Take Me to the Mardi Gras) - Crash Crew
3. Yes We Can-Can - Treacherous Three
4. Word Is Out - The Sugarhill Gang
5. New York, New York - Grandmaster Flash
6. Girls - The Sugarhill Gang
7. Kick It Live from 9 to 5 - The Sugarhill Gang
8. Break Dancin' (Electric Boogie) - West Street Mob
9. All Night Long [Waterbed]
10. At the Ice Arcade
11. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) [Long Version] - Melle Mel & the Furious 5
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
3. Livin' in the Fast Lane - The Sugarhill Gang
4. We Don't Work for Free - Melle Mel & the Furious 5
5. Step Off - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
6. Xmas Rap [Uncensored] - Treacherous Three
7. Busy Bee's Groove - Busy Bee
8. Turn It Up - Treacherous Three
9. Down Beat - The Sugarhill Gang
10. Vice [From Miami Vice] - Grandmaster Flash
11. Outta Control - Miracle Mike
12. Street Walker [Original Version] - Mass Production
13. Message ['97 Dungeon Mix] - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

Disc 6:

1. Message [12" Original Version] - Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
2. Message [12"] - Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
3. Message ['97 Dungeon Mix][Version] - Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
4. Message [12" Instrumental Version][Instrumental] - Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10334 in Music
• Released on: 1997-02-04
• Number of discs: 5
• Format: Box set

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

Customer Reviews

Classic "Old School" that started the rap movement
This box-set is an example of the classic "old school" that started the rap movement back in the early 80s. With 5 CDs of music, there's a lot to sift through. Each disc contains at least three or four essential tunes that clearly define why this music was so groundbreaking (and still is today). You've got all 14 minutes of "Rapper's Delight", two versions of "The Message", and a host of other notably catchy numbers. Even though Sugar Hill didn't invent the rap genre, they were the first to make it popular among the masses. The set also includes a booklet that contains several articles detailing the Sugar Hill story. For anyone who's into "old school" in the strictest sense of the word, then this box set is a must!

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?

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.