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The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group formed in Englewood, New Jersey in 1979. Their hit " Rapper's Delight ", released the same year they were formed, was the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , [ 1 ] reaching a peak position of number 36 on January 12, 1980. [ 2 ]
In 1980, the song was the anchor of the group's first album The Sugarhill Gang. [17] It was the first top 40 song to be available only as a 12-inch extended version in the US. Early pressings (very few) were released with a red label, with black print, on Sugar Hill Records, along with a 7" 45rpm single (which is very rare).
Rappin' Down Town is the third album from New York City-based rap/hip hop group The Sugarhill Gang. Released in 1983, this album includes the minor R&B hits "The Lover in You" and "The Word is Out." Released in 1983, this album includes the minor R&B hits "The Lover in You" and "The Word is Out."
Bergen County's hip-hop legacy will be celebrated Sunday with an event at the Hackensack Performing Arts Center.
Both The Sugarhill Gang and Robinson — who co-founded Sugar Hill Records with her husband, Joseph —spent many years in Englewood. In 2014, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Sugarhill Gang controversy [ edit ] Grandmaster Caz is generally acknowledged to have been the main writer of the lyrics of Big Bank Hank (real name Henry Lee Jackson) on the 1979 The Sugarhill Gang single " Rapper's Delight ", which sold around 5 million copies [ 9 ] and introduced hip hop music to the mainstream. [ 10 ]
He is a founding member of the hip 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 unforgettable name of the man they call the Master Gee". He was 17 at the time of recording the song, alluded to by the lyric, "I guess by now you can take a ...