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Monsters of Rap  (Audio CD) 
by Various Artists

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Monsters of rap, indeed. This uneven compilation brings together the best and worst blockbuster hip-hop hits from 1986 to 1992, and a few other, seemingly unrelated, songs. Inoffensive dancefloor numbers like Young MC's "Bust a Move" and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Parents Just Don't Understand" recall Sundays at the roller rink. But tracks like Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" are better forgotten, like acid-washed jeans. Some non-PG choices, such as Onyx's grimy "Slam" and Yo Yo's super "You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo," as well as lesser-known slices of funk such as 3rd Bass's "Pop Goes the Weasel" and A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario" provide a change of pace from Monsters of Rap's overall sugar-coated poptastic flavor. --Lizz Mendez Berry

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: July 25, 2000
Studio: Razor & Tie
Number Of Discs: 1
Average Customer Rating: based on 5 reviews
Track Listing:
1. Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
2. Walk This Way - Aerosmith, Run-D.M.C.
3. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
4. Bust a Move - Young MC
5. I Got a Man - Positive K
6. Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect
7. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
8. Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
9. Wild Thing - Tone-Loc
10. Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
11. Power - Snap!
12. Pop Goes the Weasel - 3rd Bass
13. You Can't Play With My Yo Yo - Yo-Yo
14. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... - C+C Music Factory
15. Joy and Pain - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
16. Get Up (Before the Night Is Over) - Technotronic
17. Slam - Onyx
 
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Average Customer Review:4.5
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

5Great Old School Rap!  Jul 15, 2009
If you like old school rap, this is the CD for you. I play this cd for hours. Great artists and great songs! I love the old school raps and it is like going back in time when rappers were great.

1 of 4 found the following review helpful:

4YO YO YO BOYEE!  Jul 01, 2006
This joint is TIGHT, YO! It got some dope tracks on it! I have it on cassette tape but I let T-Bone hold it for the weekend. When i get it back im going to put it in my Alpine tape playa an roll around in my 8d foe DeVille, you wanna come too? your door dont work so you have to climb in through the window or get in on my side and slide over. Increase the PEACE! AUDI 5

2 of 5 found the following review helpful:

4good  Jun 29, 2001
This CD is a good CD. It has great hip-hop songs like Sir Mix-A-Lot's booty-anthem "Baby Got Back", Run-DMC classic "Walk This Way", Yo Yo & Ice Cubes "Can't Play With My Yo Yo", Young MC's "Bust A Move" and the song he helped write; Tone-Loc's "Wild Thing". These are all MONSTERS, but not all rap. SNAP and Technotronic are techno. Another problem, Rob Base is a 'one-hit wonder' and this doesn't feature the 'one-hit' ("It Takes Two). This album is pretty good.

13 of 13 found the following review helpful:

5Greatest Hits of all time!  Jul 25, 2000
I first found out about this CD in the TV commercials. I saw all the great songs it contained and figured that this was the one to own. Unfortunately, the price tag for this collection was somewhat high and decided to wait a little bit more before I bought it. I now find that this was one of the wisest choices I ever made since I can now get this collection at Amazon.com! Now its has become one of my most treasured collections to keep around the house and pop into the CD player every once in a while. Having all the greatest hits of the early 90's in a single collection, and at an affordable price, I believe this one here is the one to buy.

12 of 14 found the following review helpful:

5Hip-Hop's Big Chill album for the New Millenium  Jul 25, 2000
For alot teenagers, the Monsters of Rap CD is a relic. Something that should be left in the past or a bin with a $.99 sticker next to The Backstreet Bo..um New Kids On The Block's last album. For the exception of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back", most kids would say the rap presented on Monsters of rap is not "bangin" as hard as the latest Eminem, DMX or Jay-Z albums.. er, CDs. But what Generation Y doesn't understand is that these songs of the early 90's opened the doors for Hip-Hop's huge crossover success today. What Gen-Xer doesn't remember shaking their rumps to "Rump Shaker", noddin' their heads to Tribe's "Scenario" or remember the girl who kept telling you she "Got A Man", when you knew she didn't (and if anybody out there say they didn't like "Ice Ice Ice Bay" when it FIRST came out, their lying!) The songs on Monsters of Rap are not just a greatest hits package, but its the O decade's snapshot of the past. The Hip-Hop equiviant to the Big Chill soundtrack for which many of us was too young to understand Motown sound's imporantce to a Baby Boomer generation. Monsters of Rap gives that same type of vibe-- harking back to a simplier time before we heard of Dr. Dre's The Chronic and seemingly turned into Thugs overnight. Although it would've been nice to trade Techntronic's Pump The Jam for Brand Nubian's "Slow Down", 2Pac's "I Get Around", Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke", De La Soul's "Me, Myself and I" or "Buddy", this clearly nitpicking as it just makes one crave for the next volume. Let's just hope it won't take too for the next album to come out, because many us just can't do Hammer's Chinese Typewriter move on "U Can't Touch This" like we use or wear the baggy genie pants...which for many, don't seem as baggy anymore.

 
 
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