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Rapper's Delight: The Best of the Sugarhill Gang

The Sugarhill Gang

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Album Review

The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" is arguably the first true rap song to gain widespread recognition and, as such, the progenitor of one of the major musical genres of the '80s. No wonder it doesn't sound dated yet.

Customer Reviews

Are you kidding me?

Include "Rapper's Delight" as a partial album, but it doesn't include "Rapper's Delight"? For those unfamiliar with this groundbreaking rap, skip this altogether because deleted from it is the only cut worth having or listening to. What's next? Handel's "Messiah" minus the "Hallelujah" chorus? Led Zep IV minus "Stairway to Heaven"? If ever the concept of a "partial album" on iTunes counsels against including it at all, this is Exhibit A.

Sure beats D4L.

This is what hip hop is supposed to be. Not drug pushing. No violence. No constant n-words. Just good music.

Ebay this album

This album is awesome. Rapper's Delight is the shiznit! Don't buy the album here though, I paid $8.50 US for shipping and the album. Asking $40 for this thing is criminal.

Biography

Formed: 1979 in NY

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Though the Sugarhill Gang inaugurated the history of recorded hip-hop with their single "Rapper's Delight," a multi-platinum-seller and radio hit in 1979, the group was cooked up to cash in on a supposed novelty item. Music industry producer and label owner Sylvia Robinson had become aware of the massive hip-hop block parties occurring around the New York area during the late '70s, so she gathered three local rappers (Master Gee, Wonder Mike, and Big Bank Hank) to record a single. Infectious and...
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