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  2. The Sugarhill Gang - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Rapper's Delight - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Category:The Sugarhill Gang members - Wikipedia

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  5. Members of Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang help ... - AOL

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    Bergen County's hip-hop legacy will be celebrated Sunday with an event at the Hackensack Performing Arts Center.

  6. Wonder Mike (né Michael Wright) had been rapping for just two months when Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson changed his life. It was 1979 and Mike had just joined a group called Sound on ...

  7. Sugar Hill Records (hip-hop label) - Wikipedia

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    The Sugar Hill label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, [4] which was also the first top 40 hip hop single. Afterwards Super Wolf, [ 5 ] [ 4 ] The Sequence , Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five , Funky Four Plus One , Crash Crew , Treacherous Three , West Street Mob , and Spoonie Gee joined the label.

  8. Big Bank Hank - Wikipedia

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    Henry Lee Jackson (January 11, 1956 – November 11, 2014), known by his stage name Big Bank Hank, was an American hip hop recording artist and manager. Also known as Imp the Dimp, he was a member of the trio the Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single "Rapper's Delight" on the pop charts in 1979. [1]

  9. Master Gee (musician) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...