Pitchfork

Crunk Hits-- for serious, maybe the most surefire compilation series on the planet-- is back like it forgot something on this, its fourth incarnation, due December 4 on TVT.

The eighteen-track collection documents crunk at a crossroads, with genre godfather Lil Jon's oft-delayed Crunk Rock still on the back burner and the all-encompassing mega-genre "ringtone rap" eating everything in its path. Despite all that, Crunk Hits still manages to wrangle eighteen of the wildest Southern rap cuts of the last many months for its latest volume. Though much of it may not be explicitly crunk per se, one is never wrong where "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" is concerned, and highlights include basically everything here.

On a somewhat sad note, unlike the last time we reported on Crunk Hits, there's no accompanying Hyphy Hitz collection to tell you about. Door's open, man.

Crunk Hits Vol 4:

01 T.I.: "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)"
02 Shop Boyz: "Party Like a Rockstar"
03 Mims: "This Is Why I'm Hot"
04 Huey: "Pop, Lock and Drop It"
05 Fat Joe: "Make It Rain [ft. Lil Wayne]"
06 Lil Scrappy: "Money in the Bank [ft. Young Buck]"
07 Lil Jon: "Act a Fool [ft. Three 6 Mafia]"
08 UNK: "2 Step"
09 Ying Yang Twins: "Dangerous [ft. Wyclef]"
10 Chamillionaire: "Ridin' [ft. Krayzie Bone]"
11 Birdman & Lil Wayne: "Stuntin' Like My Daddy"
12 Dem Franchise Boyz: "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
13 Crime Mob: "Rock Yo Hips [ft. Lil Scrappy]"
14 Pitbull: "Sticky Icky [ft. Jim Jones]"
15 Jim Jones: "We Fly High"
16 Lil Boosie: "Wipe Me Down [ft. Webbie]"
17 Yo Gotti: "I Got Them [ft. Baby and Lil Wayne]"
18 Chris Brown: "Poppin'"