The very first commercially successful rap song was the extraordinary “Rapper’s Delight,” a 1979 breakthrough masterpiece by the Sugarhill Gang. At the time rap was such a novel medium that the starting rapper, “Wonder Mike,” had to very explicitly let the audience know what he was doing: “What you hear is not a test, I’m rapping to the beat…” In this video we dive even deeper follow Sugarhill Gang to Soul Train.
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