Road to the Riches: The Best of the Purple City Mixtapes

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Road to the Riches
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Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 22, 2005
Recorded2004/2005
Genre Hip hop
Length63:05
Label Babygrande
Producer Purple City Productions
Purple City chronology
Road to the Riches
(2005)
Paris to Purple City
(2005)

Road to the Riches: The Best of the Purple City Mixtape is the first compilation album by American hip-hop group Purple City, released on March 22, 2005 through Babygrande Records. The album has the singles "Purple City Byrdgang" (for which a music video was shot) and "It Ain't Easy" (its B-side).

Road to the Riches has been Purple City's most commercially successful album to date, peaking at number 164 on the Billboard 200 .

Track listing

  1. "The Road to the Richest" – 1:05
  2. "Piff Iz da Answer" – 3:00
  3. "Winning" – 4:07
  4. "Purple City Byrdgang" – 3:55
  5. "Insight With Panchi" – 0:29
  6. "Me & U" – 3:51
  7. "It Ain't Easy" – 3:35
  8. "Broadway" – 1:55
  9. "Will Not Lose" – 2:49
  10. "Copz Is Coming" – 0:17
  11. "Insight with Panchi II" – 3:49
  12. "Real Niggaz" –4:23
  13. "A Part of History" – 4:08
  14. "Insight with Panchi III" – 0:23
  15. "Roll It Up, Light It Up" – 4:20
  16. "America Show" – 3:49
  17. "A Star" – 3:03
  18. "The Accident" – 2:07
  19. "Late Night" – 3:38
  20. "Gun Go" – 4:05
  21. "Come 2 Get Ya" – 4:17

Chart history

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Billboard 200164
Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums24
Billboard Top Rap Albums9
Billboard Top Independent Albums13
Billboard Top Heatseekers9


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