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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...
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  • Sugarhill Gang is the self-titled debut album by influential rap group the Sugarhill Gang. It is considered to be the first hip hop studio album, leading...
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    serves as the debut single of American hip-hop trio the Sugarhill Gang, produced by Sylvia Robinson. Although it was shortly preceded by the Fatback Band's...
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  • Zimmermann, Curtis. The Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang at AllMusic Kurtis Blow at AllMusic "The Sequence - Sugarhill Presents the Sequence Album". AllMusic...
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    Grandmaster Caz (category Rappers from the Bronx)
    to the mid-1980s. He is best known as the (uncredited) main writer of Big Bank Hank's raps on the seminal 1979 hip hop single by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's...
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  • recording of "Apache". In 1981, the rap group known as the Sugarhill Gang covered the Incredible Bongo Band's version of the song on its second album, 8th...
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  • Big Bank Hank (category The Sugarhill Gang members)
    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...
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    Master Gee (musician) (category The Sugarhill Gang members)
    recording artist and DJ. 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...
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  • 16, 1979, The Sugarhill Gang released the single Rapper's Delight, which became the first commercially successful hip-hop song. It was the first rap song...
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    Wonder Mike (category The Sugarhill Gang members)
    the Sugarhill Gang. The group was part of the hip hop movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Wonder Mike is best known for being a member of the Sugarhill Gang...
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  • On It!", 1981 song by rap group the Sugarhill Gang "Jump on It", a song from Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1996 album Return of the Bumpasaurus Jump on It, 2023 album...
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  • label), founded 1979 SugarHill Recording Studios, a Texas recording studio The Sugarhill Gang, a band founded by former members of the hip hop label Sugar...
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  • 8th Wonder is the second album by the American rap group the Sugarhill Gang. The album was released in 1981 for Sugar Hill Records and was again produced...
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    This was quickly noticed, and the style spread. By the end of the 1970s, artists such as Kurtis Blow and the Sugarhill Gang were starting to receive radio...
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    and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Depeche Mode, James...
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  • Jump On It! (category The Sugarhill Gang albums)
    hop group The Sugarhill Gang made of children's music and was the first hip hop album made by rap artists for children. The album was the only one recorded...
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  • Kurtis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang, Melle Mel, Super-Wolf, West Street Mob, Spoonie Gee, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee Starski, Lovebug Starski, The Cold Crush Brothers...
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  • Larry Verne in 1960. Featured in the lyrics of "Apache (Jump on It)", a 1981 song by The Sugarhill Gang. Featured in the lyrics of "Sharkey's Night" by...
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  • pioneering rap group, The Sugarhill Gang.[citation needed] Leo O'Brien died in New York City on October 10, 2012, at age 41. The cause of death was never...
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  • Rappin' Down Town (category The Sugarhill Gang albums)
    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...
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  • Hip-hop (redirect from The roots of rap)
    performance saying something along the lines of what was adopted by other artists such as The Sugarhill Gang in 1979 in one of the earliest rap records "Rapper's...
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  • Blow, Doug E. Fresh, Whodini, Warp 9, DJ Hollywood, Spoonie Gee, The Sugarhill Gang, Russell Simmons, Slick Rick, LL Cool J, Rick Rubin, Dana Dane, Vanilla...
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  • unveiled on June 12, 2023 during the Ubisoft Forward June 2023 presentation as the fifteenth installment in the series and the second annual song pack after...
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    verification] (B Dorian) "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" (1973) by Vicki Lawrence "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang is often written in E minor...
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  • Force — Positive Force The Sequence — Sugarhill Presents the Sequence The Sugarhill GangSugarhill Gang Various artists — The Great Rap Hits Wood, Brass...
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    Hearts) The Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang (1980) The Sugarhill Gang - "8th Wonder" (1980) The Sugarhill Gang - "Apache" (1981) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious...
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  • Kaopectate is referenced in the Sugarhill Gang song "Rappers Delight". It is used and mentioned several times by the protagonist in the novel 11/22/63 by Stephen...
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    Q-Tip at the age of two. At nine years old, Phife Dawg suggested that they should rap, after hearing "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang for the first...
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  • April 2009 as the lead single from his sixth studio album Born in 69. The track samples the 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, featuring...
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    was the basis of Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" and The Sugarhill Gang's breakthrough hip hop music single "Rapper's Delight"...
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