RAPPER’S DELIGHT

In some ways, this is where it all began…. The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delgitht” is the oldest of Old School rap/hip-hop. This song is so Old School that Wonder Mike has to state explicitly at the beginning of the song that he really is speaking, not singing, on purpose, because most radio listeners in the late ’70s had never heard such a thing. Watch the video of the Gang performing the rap on Soul Train in 1979. WELL worth the seven minutes.