The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits, Volume 2 is the second annual music compilation album to be contributed by The Source magazine.[2] Released November 10, 1998 and distributed by Polygram Records, Hip Hop Hits Volume 2 features eighteen hip hop and rap hits. It went to number 29 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and peaked at number 46 on the Billboard 200 album chart.[3]
While the album is the first Hip Hop Hits volume not to feature an R&B/Hip Hop or a pop hit in the number-one position, four tracks on the album had reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart: "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)," "I Got the Hook Up," ""Money, Power, Respect" and "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up."