Rapper's Delight takes rap music global
Famously, the first hip-hop single wasn't actually the first. Rapper's Delight, the Sugarhill Gang's 15 minutes of fame, was beaten to shops by King Tim III (Personality Jock), the B-side of a Fatback Band 12-inch. But it was Rapper's Delight – a debut both for hip-hop's first imprint and its eponymous group – that sent this new music around the world, a global audience forever associating this new music with that odd opening line: "I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie ...".
For all hip-hop's rulebook-destroying approach to the records it was made from, the story of the Sugar Hill label, and of Rapper's Delight in particular, is striking for its echoes of earlier eras. Hip-hop might have had a strident sense of authenticity but the genre's first hitmakers were a manufactured band – put together by former soul/disco singer Sylvia Robinson. She'd set up an independent label and was looking for the next big sound to make some money from. The backing track, ostensibly Chic's Good Times, was replayed by an in-house band, and Robinson's new-school Motown had recording, mixing, pressing and promo departments all under one roof. Infamously, Big Bank Hank rapped lyrics written by Cold Crush Brothers' MC Grandmaster Caz, his borrowing so blatant he even spells out Caz's name in the song. New sound, same old rules.
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on a single called “Rapper's Delight'' (come again?) by a group known as the Sugar Hill Gang (who are they?). Not that anyone knew it at the time, but this would probably prove the single most significant event in popular music since those
Rapper's Delight, the Sugarhill Gang's 15 minutes of fame, was beaten to shops by King Tim III (Personality Jock), the B-side of a Fatback Band 12-inch. But it was Rapper's Delight – a debut both for hip-hop's first imprint and its eponymous group
In a perfect world, the would be unquestionably praised for their contribution to hip-hop. Their 1979 hit, 'Rapper's Delight,' was the genre's first pop crossover smash. Although that song still
OK, fine, but if I'm into hip-hop, I'm wondering why one of its founders (Sugarhill Gang, "Rappers' Delight," 1979) didn't even make the list. So maybe they didn't come up with that many famous recordings, but they were instrumental in starting a
The lineup of live performances includes Trammps, famous for their hit Disco Inferno, Sugar Hill Gang, most widely known for their hit Rappers Delight, A Taste of Honey, who performs the famous hit Boogie Ooogie, and Peaches and Herb, the group that
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Even without the classic Rappers Delight, I would have bought this this CD for Apache and 8th Wonder alone. Brings you back to a place and time when Hip-Hop was about the FUN instead of the GUN. To the misguided reviewer below “Super Pimp” – I for one DO get the point that you were just joking in order to get people upset. The only other alternative is that you really are as ridiculous as you sound. Peace 2 U 2.
the reason this cd gets 4 stars instead of 5 is because I bought this cd thinking i was gonna get the full 15 minute version of rappers delight, which i didnt, so i was greatly disappointed in that. Other then that, this cd if filled with a bumch of feel good rap songs from back in the day. tracks 1 and 2 are the best in my opinion, but there arent really any BAD songs on the whole cd, seeing how it is a greatest hits cd. If your not a huge fan of sugarhill gang, just soneone looking for some good ald school rap, then go get sugarhill gangs first greatest hits cd, but if your a big sugarhill gnag fan, like me, then go pick up there first greatest hits cd and this one.
Of course the Album is great, it represents the beginning (even though I remember King Tim III preceeding it). Saying that Ol’School is crap because something that came out later is “better” or more sophisitcated is like saying the wright brothers’ plane was a piece of crap because an F18 fighter would kick it’s ass. Anyone who doesn’t understand that will have a tough life.
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The Sugarhill Gang laid down a 15-minute rap over Chic's disco song “Good Times. ” They called their song “Rapper's Delight.” Little did they know, ...Jet
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"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. ... A short time later she released "Rapper's Delight" with the Sugar Hill Gang. ...
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The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for their 1979 hit, "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. ...
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