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REDISCOVER The '70s: Roots of Hip-Hop

Curated by Amazon's Music Experts

These artists weren't Hip-Hop, but their tracks became the blueprint for the genre's architects.

72 SONGS • 6 HOURS AND 3 MINUTES

1Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)2Apache3Take Me To The Mardi Gras4Use Me5Ashley's Roachclip6Impeach the President7The Big Beat8Hihache9The Revolution Will Not Be Televised10Good Times11I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You12Mothership Connection (Star Child)13Little Ghetto Boy (Live)14Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 215I Get Lifted (2004 Remaster)16U.F.O17It's a New Day18It's Your Thing19Get out of My Life Woman20Papa Was Too21I Know You Got Soul (Extended Version)22The Payback23Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic (Album - Remaster)24The Edge25Hum Along And Dance26Spinning Wheel (Remastered)27You're Getting a Little Too Smart28I'm so Glad You're Mine29Why Can't People Be Colors Too?30(You) Got What I Need31Kissing My Love32When the Revolution Comes33Down Here On The Ground (Live At The Cliche' Lounge, Newark, New Jersey, 1970 / Remastered 2000)34Nautilus35Hospital Prelude Of Love Theme (From "Foxy Brown" Soundtrack)36Wildflower37I Just Wanna Stop38Funky President (People It's Bad) (Single Version)39Walk On By (Single Edit - Remaster)40Be Alright41Backstrokin'42One Nation Under A Groove43Vegetable Wagon44Living Together is Keeping Us Apart45Ode To Billie Joe46Bam Bam47Jungle Fever48Jungle Boogie49Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)50Love Don't Live Here Anymore51Do Your Thing (Remastered 1991 Album Version)52Big Sur Suite53Brother's Gonna Work It Out (The Mack/Soundtrack Version)54Express Yourself55Move on Up (Extended Version)56San Juan Sunset57Cantaloupe Island (Remastered 1999/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)58Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 259Little Miss Lover (Olympic Studios, London, UK, October 1, 1967)60Make It Funky (Pt. 1)61Funky Worm62Bound63Didn't I64(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right65A Garden Of Peace66That's All Right with Me67Daylight68Mystic Brew69Man Oh Man70Sister Sanctified71Think Twice [feat. Kay Haith]72Red Clay