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The Release of Rapper's Delight

Stuart Maconie remembers the 1979 multi-platinum seller and massive radio hit that kick started the hip-hop phenomenon.

As 6 Music celebrates hip-hop, there's another chance to hear Stuart Maconie recalling the release of Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang in 1979. It became a multi-platinum seller and massive radio hit, and is regarded to have kick-started the phenomenon of recorded hip-hop.

Despite having received considerable chart success, selling over 8 million copies worldwide and inspiring hits by the likes of Blondie and Queen, the music industry as a whole reacted contemptuously; insisting that rap was a short-lived trend, simply a whim or fad.

Stuart looks the ways the track inspired a generation; how three local New York rappers plucked from the relative obscurity of underground block parties contributed towards rap becoming the biggest selling and most popular genres in music today.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Aug 2017 02:00
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Music Played

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • Dance Classics.
    • SugarHill Records INc.
    • ARC-925501.

  • 鲍鈥怰辞测

    Wear You To The Ball

    • ROCKSTEADY SOUL.
    • METRO.
    • METRCD-061.

  • Kurtis Blow

    THE BREAKS

    • Kurtis Blow.
    • Mercury.
    • 558-200.

  • Cut Killer

    Intro

    • Party Jam - 1989 1996, The Golden Age.
    • Eastory Production.
    • 981 518-9.

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • Dance Classics.
    • SugarHill Records INc.
    • ARC-925501.

  • Fatback

    King Tim III

    • The New York Sound 2.
    • BGP/Ace.
    • CDBGPD-188.

  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel

    White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

    • White Lines '89 - Part II.
    • New Day Records.
    • BA-529.

  • PUBLIC ENEMY

    Fight the Power recording

    • DO THE RIGHT THING.
    • WHITELABEL.
    • CD-72665.

  • 50 Cent

    In Da Club

    • GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'.
    • SHADY RECORDS, AFTERMATH ENTERTAINMENT, INTERSCOPE.
    • --4935642.

  • Mark B & Blade

    Back In The Day

    • The Unknown.
    • Wordplay Records.
    • CDWORD023.

  • Beck

    Debra

    • Geffen.

  • Kasabian

    Days Are Forgotten

    • COLUMBIA.

Credit

Producer Frank Wilson

Broadcasts

  • Fri 12 Aug 2011 00:00
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