The Essentials

Tracklist

• 1
  Rapper's Delight
  5:05
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Hot Hot Summer Day
  7:10
• 3
  8th Wonder
  3:58
• 4
  Showdown

  The Furious Five meets the Sugarhill Gang
  5:55
• 5
  Apache
  4:16
• 6
  The Lover in You
  6:58
• 7
  The Word Is Out
  5:43
• 8
  Kick It Live From 9 to 5
  6:39
• 9
  Livin' in the Fast Lane
  5:11
• 10
  Girls
  5:37

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Release credits

• Larry Johnson
  producer [4]
• Michael Jonzun
  producer [4]
• Steve Jerome
  engineer [4]
• Sylvia Inc.
  producer [1, 4]
• The Sugarhill Gang
  performer [4]

Issues

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  The Essentials

  CD
  3 September 2002