The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Vol. 5

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

 * 1) We Right Here – DMX
 * 2) I'm a Thug – Trick Daddy
 * 3) I'm Real – Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez
 * 4) Let Me Blow Ya Mind – Eve and Gwen Stefani
 * 5) Area Codes – Ludacris and Nate Dogg
 * 6) Bad Boy for Life – P. Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry
 * 7) Ride wit Me – Nelly and City Spud
 * 8) Purple Pills – D12
 * 9) Bang ta Dis – Benzino
 * 10) Oh Yeah – Foxy Brown and Spragga Benz
 * 11) Front 2 Back – Xzibit
 * 12) Get Ur Freak On – Missy Elliott
 * 13) Project Bitch – Cash Money Millionaires
 * 14) Put Ya Hands Up – Jadakiss
 * 15) Get Fucked Up – Iconz
 * 16) So Fresh, So Clean – Outkast and Sleepy Brown

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