The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5

| type = Compilation

| artist = Various artists

| cover = Hip Hop Hits 5.jpg

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| released = December 18, 2001

| recorded = Various times

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| genre = Hip hop, rap, mainstream urban

| length = unknown

| label = Def Jam Recordings

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| chronology = The Source

| prev_title = The Source Hip Hop Music Awards 2001

| prev_year = 2001

| next_title = The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 6

| next_year = 2002

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|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r565082|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

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The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 5 is the fifth annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine. Released December 18, 2001, and distributed by Def Jam Recordings, Hip Hop Hits Volume 5 features sixteen hip hop and rap hits (two of them are bonus tracks). It went to number 37 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and peaked at number 48 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Purple Pills (or Purple Hills) is the only number-one Hot Rap Tracks hit on Volume 5. Likewise, the album is the second in Hip Hop Hits series to feature a Billboard Hot 100 number one hit (Volume 1 is first): I'm Real. It is the fourth Hip Hop Hits album not to feature a number-one hit on the R&B/Hip Hop chart.

Track listing

Alternate titles

The edited version of the compilation featured substitute clean titles: Purple Hills, Project Chick and Get Crunked Up.

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Category:Hip-hop compilation albums

Category:2001 compilation albums

Category:Def Jam Recordings compilation albums

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