Sugar Hill Gang Biography

Though the Sugarhill Gang inaugurated the history of recorded hip-hop with their single Rappers Delight a multi-platinum-seller and radio hit in 1979 the group was cooked up to cash in on a supposed novelty item. A hip-hop The hi-be To the hi-be The hip-hip-hop.

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The story of the Sugarhill Gang is perhaps one of the most controversial among old school hip hop and hip hop on a whole for that matter.

Sugar hill gang biography. Englewood New Jersey USA troupe whose Rappers Delight was hip-hops breakthrough single and paved the way for the mainstream success of rap music in the 80s. Music industry producer and label owner Sylvia Robinson had become aware of the massive hip-hop. They gave the music an identity and a calling card in the first line of the song.

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