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Today In Hip Hop History: 45 Years Ago Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” Became Hip-Hop’s First Top 40 Hit
On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...
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A half-century of hip-hop: Genre has evolved, branched out over the decades
as well as the first widely distributed hip-hop song, 1979’s “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang. The single sampled a break from Chic’s “Good Times.” At the same time ...
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Jaguar Skills' History of Hip Hop
Hip Hop anthems from 1992 in the mix from the likes of House of Pain, Pete Rock & A Tribe Called Quest (pictured).
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From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop
“Instead of hip-hop being rapping over disco instrumentals ... owners of the label that released one of the first rap records in 1979, “King Tim III (Personality Jock)” by Fatback Band ...