The Source also releases a compilation album of hip-hop hits.

And it's been an even odder few months for hip-hop radio stations, which had to figure out whether or not to play these halfway hip-hop hits.

When is a hip-hop hit not a hip-hop hit?

Yet this hip-hop hit has scarcely made an impression in the hip-hop world.

Come on, pretty ladies around the world, pay homage to the band whose 1980's-style take on funk has helped inspire a new generation of hip-hop hits.

(It's not clear who decreed that every hip-hop hit needs an Akon remix, but it's an excellent decree.)

Berlin-based weisenheimers the Bosshoss reinterpreted contemporary pop and hip-hop hits in the style of traditional country music.

The album's first single, "On Fire," has already established itself as one of the summer's inescapable hip-hop hits, especially in his native New York.

The band played its new tracks, as well as ad-libbed medleys of old and new hip-hop hits.

More to the point, they created the teen-age, hip-hop hit "House Party."