Rapper's Delight

   

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"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang; it is widely acknowledged as the first hip hop single. Like many songs from the time, "Rapper's Delight" was rapped over the instrumental track of a disco hit (played by the group Positive Force), in this case Chic's "Good Times". The following year, an album was released with the song on it. In spite of a few more minor hits, The Sugarhill Gang quickly faded into obscurity.

Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers claims that Sugarhill Gang member Big Bank Hank used his rhymes on Rapper's Delight.

To honor the song that many believe started it all, Erick Sermon, Redman, and Keith Murray mixed their own version in 1998.

The Spanish summer hit, Aserejé (2002) (released as The Ketchup Song in Germany and United Kingdom), sung by Las Ketchup, tells the story of a boy who asks a DJ to play the "song he desires most". Since he cannot produce the correct title, he mispronounces the first lines of Rapper's Delight: "I say the hip-hop, the hip..." which becomes the meaningless refrain "Aserejé ja dejé...".

The song was used in the final stages of an imaginative Honda commerical/advert in the United Kingdom in 2003/2004.


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