VARIOUS Hip Hop Collected (Limited Edition 2022 UK/EU 25-track double album 2-LP pressed on two 180-gram Black Vinyl records. Hip Hop Collected traces the genre's first twenty years, gathering twenty-five tracks from the artistswho built hip hop from underground roots into a genuine cultural force, drawn from the labels that first carried it there, Sugar Hill Records, Profile and Def Jam among them. The collection opens with foundational pieces like Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's "The Message," moves through the genre's golden era with Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid In Full" (in its Coldcut remix), LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?," and closes on the '90s work of Nas, Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang Clan, pairing socially conscious lyricism with genre-defining party anthems across the full arc of the set. Part of the wider Collected compilation series bringing together major names alongside deeper, less-discovered material within a single genre. This edition is presented in a wide-spine picture sleeve with insert and liner notes, plus a gold hype sticker. Recommended).