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    "Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 rap song that serves as the debut single of American hip-hop trio the Sugarhill Gang, produced by Sylvia Robinson. Although...
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    neighborhood. Their 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. "Rapper's Delight" is now considered one...
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  • Records and was produced by Sylvia Robinson. The single "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap single to become a top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching...
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  • Gang released the single Rapper's Delight, which became the first commercially successful hip-hop song. It was the first rap song to appear on the Billboard...
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  • Big Bank Hank (category Rappers from the Bronx)
    "Rapper's Delight" on the pop charts in 1979. He contributed to many documentaries based on the rap music industry. Lyrics to his verse from "Rapper's...
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  • Hip-hop (redirect from Musical Genres/Rap)
    phrase was in common usage by the time The Sugarhill Gang recorded "Rapper's Delight" in 1979. The chorus begins, "I said a hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie/To...
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    'Rapper's Delight' was just as much, if not more so." Traditionally, Chic's live performances of "Good Times" incorporate a portion of "Rapper's Delight"...
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    Grandmaster Caz (category African-American male rappers)
    (uncredited) main writer of Big Bank Hank's raps on the seminal 1979 hip hop single by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight". He worked with Debra Harris as a...
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  • during the film and original songs and dialogue from it. Only for "Rapper's Delight" was its rendition (by Ellen Dow) used, in combination with the original...
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  • the Accord, which begins playing The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 single "Rapper's Delight". The sequence ends when the button of an electronic key fob is pressed...
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    Steel" and The Sugarhill Gang's breakthrough hip hop music single "Rapper's Delight". It has been sampled since by many dance and hip hop acts, as well...
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  • The title refers to vocalist Tim Washington. A few months later, "Rapper's Delight" came out, which is widely regarded as the first commercially released...
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    music was underground, one of the first so-called rap records, was a monster hit ('Rapper's Delight' by the Sugar Hill Gang on Sugarhill Records)." Hip...
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  • School" (Big Bank Hank, J. Robinson, and Wright) – 3:11 "Kid's Rapper's Delight (Kid's Rap-Along)" (Bernard Edwards, J. Robinson, Sylvia Robinson, Nile...
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  • the driving force behind two landmark singles in the hip hop genre: "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by the Sugarhill Gang, and "The Message" (1982) by Grandmaster...
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  • Company ("Shame Shame Shame"). The Sugar Hill label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first top 40 hip...
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    the 2007 comedy film, Superbad. The Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 single "Rapper's Delight" (long version, 14:40) contains lyrics about the Bar-Kays, Farrah Fawcett...
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    Gang, the first hip hop act to produce a record, the 1979 single "Rapper's Delight". As of 2019, Wright and other members of the Sugarhill Gang continue...
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  • "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" (1973) by Vicki Lawrence "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang is often written in E minor with a persistent C♯...
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    time, predominantly in hip-hop, starting with the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight". With Edwards, Rodgers wrote and produced music for other artists...
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    RZA (redirect from Prince Delight)
    1979 when a friend of his introduced him to Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang. In 1984, Diggs formed a rap group with his cousins Russell Jones, then...
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  • but can be found even in the earliest rap songs, such as the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 single, "Rapper's Delight": I'm six-foot-one and I'm tons of fun and...
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  • Hotel Room Service (category Pitbull (rapper) songs)
    your blouse / Pull that g-string down south"), and Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" ("We at the hotel, motel, Holiday Inn"). It also references "Whatever...
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    Master Gee (musician) (category American rappers)
    hop group the Sugarhill Gang. On the band's signature song, "Rapper's Delight", he raps, "I said M-A-S, T-E-R, a G with a double E, I said I go by the...
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    Run-DMC (category American rap rock groups)
    responsible for intentionally transforming rap music from dance-and club-oriented funk grooves like "Rapper's Delight" and "The Breaks" to an aggressive, less-danceable...
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  • ladies and is best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rapper's Delight". Dow's other film roles include...
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    Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith. They are known for their remake of "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang. The Squad continued to record on each other's solo...
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  • 2002 song "Aserejé" by Las Ketchup based its chorus on the 1979 song "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang. Travis Tritt wrote and released the song "Strong...
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  • sexual relations with his daughter. The last line is a homage to "Rapper's Delight". This is a remade version of the song which was first featured on...
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    [citation needed] Contrary to popular belief, he did not play on "Rapper's Delight" which was revealed in an interview with Drumeo on August 16, 2017...
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