Featuring loads of hit songs you already know, a couple of new joints you may be feelin' (especially southern and west coast headz), and produced by two of the biggest urban oriented radio stations on earth, Hip Hop Coast 2 Coast sounds like the sort of thing that K-Tel will be putting out in ten or twenty years. It's got something for everybody -- if you liked "No Diggity," "Award Tour," "I Got 5 On It," or "C.R.E.A.M" (and who didn't?), "Loungin,'" "Rapper's Ball," or "Funkdafied," there's a cut you'll be feelin' on this ready-made compilation/mixtape. Plus, with a Kam-flavored remix of Cube's "What Can I Do?" as well as a cute use of an old sample by the man that makes you go "uuuuuuuuungh," Master P, this rounds out to be fairly interesting.

The project, besides being great advertising for its radio patrons Hot 97 in NYC and Power 106 in LA, is passing scrilla to the Knowledge is Power Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at urban youth. We think.

This is great for those people who heard cuts on the radio but just wasn't in the mood to catch an album. Grabbing the CD will make it easy to skip through songs that don't meet individual tastes (who would have expected the Chickenhawk and the Iron Lung on the same CD?) and will drop some money into a good cause.