The first-ever rap song produced was Rapper’s Delight in the summer of 1979. Three Bronx rappers named the Sugar Hill Gang recorded it and it was produced by Sugar Hill Records.
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The first-ever rap song produced was Rapper’s Delight in the summer of 1979. Three Bronx rappers named the Sugar Hill Gang recorded it and it was produced by Sugar Hill Records.
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Good track, but how does the photo relate?
The Message is still one of my all-time favorite raps. I memorized every single verse when it first came out because I also “grew up in the ghetto, living second rate”. Just “felt” this hard back then. I still know them all now. There are times throughout the years when out of nowhere, my brain (and mouth) will kick right into “a child is born, with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind… God is smilin’ on you, but he’s frownin’ too, because only God knows, what you’ll go through…
You forgot mention that a lot of the lyrics were stolen from other rappers on this track.
That doesn’t look like Debbie Harry
“Rapper’s Delight” was the first rap song to chart and, perhaps, the first to be recorded professionally. It definitely wasn’t the first “produced.” Rap had been growing in New York, and, especially, the South Bronx for several years.
Two of the three guys fronting the original Sugarhill Gang were from New Jersey. The third from the Bronx. The three connected in the musical mecca of Englewood, NJ. The group was formed by Sugar Hill Records producer Sylvia Robinson. (I imagine that may be Robinson in the photo.) Both outfits were named for the Harlem neighborhood where the record company was located.
Didn’t one of the guys in the music video steal the lyrics and perform them or something? I read about it a long time ago but don’t remember details.
But who would you take first, Big Bank Hank or Wondermike???
Fun fact: the words in the chorus of the song ‘Asereje (The Ketchup Song)’ that some of you may remember from a few summers back are in fact based on the beginning of ‘Rapper’s Delight’, only pronounced as Spanish-sounding nonsense 🙂
I thought Rappin’ Rodney was the first rap song.
The Cal Solomon erasure
I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop…
Always makes me think of the show *Scrubs*
It’s still one of the best I’ve ever heard.
I remember this. record from Jr high school. Rapper’s Delight crossed all the boundaries i my school in the Bronx. Black kids, white, kids, and Latin kids all had something in common — we loved this track and knew every word. Not too much later we all sang along with We Don’t Need No Education. I started to listen to all this new music and started to erase that stupid qualifier between rock and soul that divided radio and record stores.
Have you ever been over to your friend’s house to eat and the food just ain’t no good?
The chicken taste like wood.
What a year!
And the chicken tastes like wood
wasn’t sylvia robinson just trying to cash in on something she thought was a fad so she brought the three guys together to only record this song? also, i think that she used the sugar hill name to have some sort of authenticity (since harlem is a historically Black space) but they were from nj and not nyc. idk correct me if i’m wrong but i love hip hop history and based on what i know, hip hop was primarily concentrated in the south bx & uptown manhattan and i remember seeing that that scene didn’t claim rappers delight because it wasn’t representative of what hip hop was at that time in the slightest (aka the 4 elements). i think rappers delight is such an important part of hip hop history but it’s also pretty lame given the actual context around it imo
I was there
I said, a hip hop…..
Skiddlee beebop a we rock a scooby doo
Hotel, motel,
Holiday Inn
If your girl starts actin up,
Then you ask her fren’
How about describing who the hell this lady is and/or a pic of the Sugar Hill Gang
Is that a Lincoln Continental or a Sunroof Cadillac?
Props to the OG Grandmaster Caz
It’s funny cuz even just reading the post it’s obviously wrong, like the first rap song is explicitly about rappers? Lol.
And in 1980 a song by the the first white rapper in the music industry made it to number one on the Billboard charts. And the song spawned the world´s first rap video for MTV… Blondie´s “Rapture.”
Rap was an evolution not revolution but this track being a breakout brought it to wider recognition.
The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron and Lightning Rod’s Hustlers Convention are all examples of the evolution. And the Fatback band are credited as recording the first of the new era of rap.
Doesn’t take away from Rappers Delights massive impact.
I have the 12” 45 rpm original.
Big Bank Hank stole rhymes from Grandmaster Caz. Fuck that.
I’m just here for the “Actually” comments.