"Rapper's Delight" is a song recorded in 1979 by The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first single to featurerapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song is ranked #251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #2 on both About.com's and VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. It is also included in NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011. Songs on the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The song was recorded in a single take. There are three versions of the original version of the song: 14:35 (12" long version), 6:30 (12" short version), and 4:55 (7" shortened single version). Ten years after its initial release, an official remix by Ben Liebrand entitled "Rapper's Delight '89" was released.
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Rappers Delight · Xanadu · Sweet Lady
Soul Jazz Records Presents Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
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Released on: 2017-03-03
Composer: Edwards
Composer: Rodgers
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Xanadu and Sweet Lady - Rappers Delight
Taken from the EP "Rappers Delight", released on Joe Gibbs Music in 1979.
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Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Hustle! ~ Reggae Disco (2002) (Soul Jazz Records)
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ff6YprM0c&fmt=18
Enjoy!
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Xanadu & Sweet Lady – Rappers Delight
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Xanadu & Sweet Lady - Rappers Delight (Sugarhill Gang Cover)
From '' Rappers Delight ''
Label: Joe Gibbs Music – JGMD 8079
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1979
Tracklist
A1 Rappers Delight
A2 Rappers Delight (Instrumental)
B1 Rockers Choice
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
B2 Rockers Choice (Instrumental)
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
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"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang and produced by Sylvia Robinson.
Although it was shortly preceded by Fatback Band's "King Tim III (Personality Jock)", "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number-one in Canada.
It was a prototype for various types of rap music, incorporating themes such a...
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Xanadu & Sweet Lady - Rappers Delight (Instrumental)
1979 - Producer -- Joe Gibbs
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Xanadu & Sweet Lady - Rappers Delight
Vinyl, 12" : Xanadu & Sweet Lady - Rappers Delight (1979) Label : Joe Gibbs Music
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Rappers Delight · Xanadu · Sweet Lady
Soul Jazz Records Presents Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
℗ Soul Jazz Rec...
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Rappers Delight · Xanadu · Sweet Lady
Soul Jazz Records Presents Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
℗ Soul Jazz Records Ltd
Released on: 2017-03-03
Composer: Edwards
Composer: Rodgers
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Rappers Delight · Xanadu · Sweet Lady
Soul Jazz Records Presents Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
℗ Soul Jazz Records Ltd
Released on: 2017-03-03
Composer: Edwards
Composer: Rodgers
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Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Hustle! ~ Reggae Disco (2002) (Soul Jazz Records)
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ff6YprM0c&fmt=18
E...
Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Hustle! ~ Reggae Disco (2002) (Soul Jazz Records)
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ff6YprM0c&fmt=18
Enjoy!
Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Hustle! ~ Reggae Disco (2002) (Soul Jazz Records)
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ff6YprM0c&fmt=18
Enjoy!
From '' Rappers Delight ''
Label: Joe Gibbs Music – JGMD 8079
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1979
Tracklist
A1 Rappers Delight
A2 Rappers Del...
From '' Rappers Delight ''
Label: Joe Gibbs Music – JGMD 8079
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1979
Tracklist
A1 Rappers Delight
A2 Rappers Delight (Instrumental)
B1 Rockers Choice
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
B2 Rockers Choice (Instrumental)
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
------------------------
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang and produced by Sylvia Robinson.
Although it was shortly preceded by Fatback Band's "King Tim III (Personality Jock)", "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number-one in Canada.
It was a prototype for various types of rap music, incorporating themes such as boasting, dance, honesty and sex, with the charisma and enthusiasm of James Brown.
The track interpolates Chic's "Good Times", resulting in Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards suing Sugar Hill Records for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriting credits.
The track was recorded in a single take.
There are five mixes of the song.
"Rapper's Delight" is number 251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.
It is also included on NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
It was preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
In 2014, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Background
On September 20 and 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium.
When Chic started playing "Good Times", rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang ("Big Bank Hank" Jackson, "Wonder Mike" Wright, and "Master Gee" O'Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band.
A few weeks later, Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards's bass line from Chic's "Good Times".
Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem.
The song turned out to be an early version of "Rapper's Delight", which also included a scratched version of the song's string section.
Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.
Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be "one of his favorite songs of all time" and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic.
He also stated: "As innovative and important as 'Good Times' was, 'Rapper's Delight' was just as much, if not more so."
A substantial portion of the early stanzas of the song's lyrics was borrowed by Jackson from Grandmaster Caz (Curtis Fisher) who had loaned his 'book' to him—these include a namecheck for "Casanova Fly", which was Caz's full stage name.
According to Wonder Mike, he had heard the phrase "hip-hop" from a cousin, leading to the opening line of "Hip-hop, hippie to the hippie, to the hip-hip-hop and you don't stop", whilst he described "To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat" as "basically a spoken drum roll. I liked the percussive sound of the letter B". The line "Now what you hear is not a test, I'm rappin' to the beat", was inspired by the introduction to The Outer Limits ("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture").
Before the "Good Times" background starts, the intro to the recording is an interpolation of "Here Comes That Sound Again" by British studio group Love De-Luxe, a disco hit in 1979.
According to Oliver Wang, author of the 2003 Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, recording artist ("Pillow Talk") and studio owner Sylvia Robinson had trouble finding anyone willing to record a rap song. Most of the rappers who performed in clubs did not want to record, as many practitioners believed the style was for live performances only. It is said that Robinson's son heard Big Bank Hank in a pizza place. According to Master Gee, Hank auditioned for Robinson in front of the pizza parlor where he worked, whilst Gee himself auditioned in Robinson's car.
A live band was used to record most of the backing track, including members of the group "Positive Force": Albert Pittman, Bernard Roland, Moncy Smith, and Bryan Horton.
Chip Shearin claimed during a 2010 interview that he was the bass player on the track. At the age of 17, he had visited a friend in New Jersey.
From '' Rappers Delight ''
Label: Joe Gibbs Music – JGMD 8079
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1979
Tracklist
A1 Rappers Delight
A2 Rappers Delight (Instrumental)
B1 Rockers Choice
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
B2 Rockers Choice (Instrumental)
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
------------------------
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang and produced by Sylvia Robinson.
Although it was shortly preceded by Fatback Band's "King Tim III (Personality Jock)", "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number-one in Canada.
It was a prototype for various types of rap music, incorporating themes such as boasting, dance, honesty and sex, with the charisma and enthusiasm of James Brown.
The track interpolates Chic's "Good Times", resulting in Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards suing Sugar Hill Records for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriting credits.
The track was recorded in a single take.
There are five mixes of the song.
"Rapper's Delight" is number 251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.
It is also included on NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
It was preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
In 2014, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Background
On September 20 and 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium.
When Chic started playing "Good Times", rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang ("Big Bank Hank" Jackson, "Wonder Mike" Wright, and "Master Gee" O'Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band.
A few weeks later, Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards's bass line from Chic's "Good Times".
Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem.
The song turned out to be an early version of "Rapper's Delight", which also included a scratched version of the song's string section.
Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.
Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be "one of his favorite songs of all time" and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic.
He also stated: "As innovative and important as 'Good Times' was, 'Rapper's Delight' was just as much, if not more so."
A substantial portion of the early stanzas of the song's lyrics was borrowed by Jackson from Grandmaster Caz (Curtis Fisher) who had loaned his 'book' to him—these include a namecheck for "Casanova Fly", which was Caz's full stage name.
According to Wonder Mike, he had heard the phrase "hip-hop" from a cousin, leading to the opening line of "Hip-hop, hippie to the hippie, to the hip-hip-hop and you don't stop", whilst he described "To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat" as "basically a spoken drum roll. I liked the percussive sound of the letter B". The line "Now what you hear is not a test, I'm rappin' to the beat", was inspired by the introduction to The Outer Limits ("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture").
Before the "Good Times" background starts, the intro to the recording is an interpolation of "Here Comes That Sound Again" by British studio group Love De-Luxe, a disco hit in 1979.
According to Oliver Wang, author of the 2003 Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, recording artist ("Pillow Talk") and studio owner Sylvia Robinson had trouble finding anyone willing to record a rap song. Most of the rappers who performed in clubs did not want to record, as many practitioners believed the style was for live performances only. It is said that Robinson's son heard Big Bank Hank in a pizza place. According to Master Gee, Hank auditioned for Robinson in front of the pizza parlor where he worked, whilst Gee himself auditioned in Robinson's car.
A live band was used to record most of the backing track, including members of the group "Positive Force": Albert Pittman, Bernard Roland, Moncy Smith, and Bryan Horton.
Chip Shearin claimed during a 2010 interview that he was the bass player on the track. At the age of 17, he had visited a friend in New Jersey.
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Rappers Delight · Xanadu · Sweet Lady
Soul Jazz Records Presents Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
℗ Soul Jazz Records Ltd
Released on: 2017-03-03
Composer: Edwards
Composer: Rodgers
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Xanudu And Sweet Lady - Rapper's Delight
Hustle! ~ Reggae Disco (2002) (Soul Jazz Records)
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ff6YprM0c&fmt=18
Enjoy!
From '' Rappers Delight ''
Label: Joe Gibbs Music – JGMD 8079
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1979
Tracklist
A1 Rappers Delight
A2 Rappers Delight (Instrumental)
B1 Rockers Choice
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
B2 Rockers Choice (Instrumental)
Featuring – Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
------------------------
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang and produced by Sylvia Robinson.
Although it was shortly preceded by Fatback Band's "King Tim III (Personality Jock)", "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number-one in Canada.
It was a prototype for various types of rap music, incorporating themes such as boasting, dance, honesty and sex, with the charisma and enthusiasm of James Brown.
The track interpolates Chic's "Good Times", resulting in Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards suing Sugar Hill Records for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriting credits.
The track was recorded in a single take.
There are five mixes of the song.
"Rapper's Delight" is number 251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs.
It is also included on NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
It was preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
In 2014, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Background
On September 20 and 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium.
When Chic started playing "Good Times", rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang ("Big Bank Hank" Jackson, "Wonder Mike" Wright, and "Master Gee" O'Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band.
A few weeks later, Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards's bass line from Chic's "Good Times".
Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem.
The song turned out to be an early version of "Rapper's Delight", which also included a scratched version of the song's string section.
Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.
Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be "one of his favorite songs of all time" and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic.
He also stated: "As innovative and important as 'Good Times' was, 'Rapper's Delight' was just as much, if not more so."
A substantial portion of the early stanzas of the song's lyrics was borrowed by Jackson from Grandmaster Caz (Curtis Fisher) who had loaned his 'book' to him—these include a namecheck for "Casanova Fly", which was Caz's full stage name.
According to Wonder Mike, he had heard the phrase "hip-hop" from a cousin, leading to the opening line of "Hip-hop, hippie to the hippie, to the hip-hip-hop and you don't stop", whilst he described "To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat" as "basically a spoken drum roll. I liked the percussive sound of the letter B". The line "Now what you hear is not a test, I'm rappin' to the beat", was inspired by the introduction to The Outer Limits ("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture").
Before the "Good Times" background starts, the intro to the recording is an interpolation of "Here Comes That Sound Again" by British studio group Love De-Luxe, a disco hit in 1979.
According to Oliver Wang, author of the 2003 Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, recording artist ("Pillow Talk") and studio owner Sylvia Robinson had trouble finding anyone willing to record a rap song. Most of the rappers who performed in clubs did not want to record, as many practitioners believed the style was for live performances only. It is said that Robinson's son heard Big Bank Hank in a pizza place. According to Master Gee, Hank auditioned for Robinson in front of the pizza parlor where he worked, whilst Gee himself auditioned in Robinson's car.
A live band was used to record most of the backing track, including members of the group "Positive Force": Albert Pittman, Bernard Roland, Moncy Smith, and Bryan Horton.
Chip Shearin claimed during a 2010 interview that he was the bass player on the track. At the age of 17, he had visited a friend in New Jersey.
"Rapper's Delight" is a song recorded in 1979 by The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first single to featurerapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song is ranked #251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #2 on both About.com's and VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. It is also included in NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011. Songs on the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The song was recorded in a single take. There are three versions of the original version of the song: 14:35 (12" long version), 6:30 (12" short version), and 4:55 (7" shortened single version). Ten years after its initial release, an official remix by Ben Liebrand entitled "Rapper's Delight '89" was released.