Hip Hop Family Tree is the comic book history of hip hop, as documented by Ed Piskor. This mix is a tribute to the collected Book 3, out this week, and contains pretty much every track mentioned in the volume.

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Tracklist:

The Fearless Four - Rockin’ It

Spectrum City - Check Out The Radio

LL Cool J - I Need A Beat

Rammellzee and K-Rob - Beat Bop

Whodini - Friends

T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - It’s Yours

Run DMC - Jam Master Jay

Jimmy Spicer - Money (Dollar Bill Y’all)

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message

Run DMC - Rock Box

Young and the Useless - Funky Music (live @ CBGBs, 1982)

Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh - Vanessa William (live @ Lincoln Project, New York 1984)

Cold Crush Brothers - Punk Rock Rap (Rap Version)

Newcleus - Computer Age (Push The Button)

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock

Graffiti Rock - Theme / Intro

Run DMC - It’s Like That

Run DMC - Hard Times

Micronawts - Let’s Smurf Across The Surf (Afrika Bambaataa Mix)

Verticle Lines - Beach Boy

P.C. Crew - Dougee Fresh vs The Beat Box

The B-Boys - Cuttin’ Herbie

Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde - Gettin’ Money

UTFO - Hanging Out

Kurtis Blow - Party Time

Doug E Fresh with DJ’s Chill Will & Barry Bee - Just Having Fun

Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up

The Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder

Kool Moe Dee - Action

Love Bug Starski - You’ve Gotta Believe

Whodini - The Haunted House Of Rock (Vocoder Version)

Spectrum City - Lies

Sweet G - Games People Play

Gigolette - Games Females Play

UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne

Roxane Shanté - Roxane’s Revenge

UTFO - The Real Roxanne

Public Enemy - Public Enemy #1

(I know, 1987, but in here for completion's sake)

Disco 3 - Reality

Kurtis Blow - AJ Scratch

Kurtis Blow - 8 Million Stories

Run DMC - Sucker M.C.’s (live)

The Treacherous Three ft Kool Moe Dee - Feel The Heartbeat

The Fearless Four - Problems of the World (Today)

The B-Boys - Two, Three Break

Doug E Fresh - The Original Human Beat Box

Spoonie Gee - The Big Beat

Kurtis Blow - Basketball

Joeski Love - Pee Wee’s Dance

Dion - The Wanderer