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Sugarhill Gang Interesting Facts |
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Whenever we get to do a research on an artist in rap music, we go through the regular music search or better yet rap music search routine. We try to determine who contribute the most to the current state of rap music. One of the main contributors is
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Sugarhill Gang. Their contribution to rap music will be outline more in the following paragraphs.
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See if you can answer these two trivia questions about Sugarhill Gang. |
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Sugar Hill Gang inaugurated the history of hip-hop with their hit single “Rapper's Delight”. |
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Sugar Hill only had one hit single “Rapper's Delight” and then faded from the early hip-hop scene. |
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To a true Sugarhill Gang fan, these questions are fairly simple but when we were compiling our rap music search or researches, we try to incorporate many elements of easy and hard questions. To better help you with questions relating to Sugarhill Gang, we have included their Bio below. Please read and reread because most of the information gathered from our music search will help you in the weekly contest.
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Though the Sugarhill Gang inaugurated the history of recorded hip-hop with their single "Rapper's Delight," a multi-platinum seller and radio hit in 1979, the group was cooked up to cash in on a supposed novelty item. Music-industry producer and label-owner Sylvia
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Robinson had become aware of the massive hip-hop block parties occurring around the New York area during the late '70s, so she gathered three local rappers ( Master Gee , Wonder Mike , and Big Bank Hank ) to record a single. Infectious and catchy, "Rapper's Delight" borrowed the break from Chic 's "Good Times" and became a worldwide hit, eventually selling more than eight million copies. Most industry people figured rap for a short-lived trend, and though they were dead wrong, the Sugarhill Gang certainly didn't carry the torch; despite several modest hits ("8th Wonder," "Apache") the trio faded quickly and was gone by the mid-'80s, only returning in 1999 with Jump on It , a rap album for children.
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