Sugarhill Gang Member Dies, RIP

[PlanckScale]

Sugarhill Gang was one of the pioneer rapping act and their hit single, Rapper's Delight was the first commercial rap song in the world. That is right! I remember where I was back in 1979 when I first heard the song. It was amazing.

That night at the Surrender Bridge club (back then it was known as the Italian club) in Upanga, the dj was none other than the great Funky Rasha (Rashidi). He was laying tracks like you have never heard. It was a new years party to welcome 1980, if my memory serves me well, or may be Christmas party. Nevertheless, the night was magical. The music came bubbling in with the sample beat from the hit song "Good times" by Chic 1978. We couldn't tell what it was actually and whether the guy was singing and talking. We couldn't even tell if there were more that one person rapping...It was truly a new kind of sound. A NEW ERA OF MUSIC.

The DJ also played a rap song by Kurtis Blow, called Christmas rapping that was also amazing, but Rapper's delight was something else....

RIP Big Bank Hank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljUnyv5XUA8

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

So long big fella. You are a true pioneer!

I can only reminisce riding my Raleigh Wildcat bicycle in the streets of Oxfordshire going to school in the late 80s while bumping Rapper's Delight in my Discman.

I thought I was the flyest African kid in the entire school. Now looking back I say to myself 'what the heck was I thinking?'.

But I was just going through a phase that many kids go through.

Check out some of the classic lines from the song that are now synonymous with hip-hop.

I'm Imp the Dimp, the ladies pimp
The women fight for my delight
But I'm the grandmaster with the three MCs

That shock the house for the young ladies
And when you come inside into the front

You do the freak, spank, and do the bump
And when the sucker MCs try to prove a point....

I go hotel, motel whatchu gonna do today
I'm gonna get a fly girl, gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ

Everybody go hotel, motel, holiday inn....

 

[PlanckScale]

So long big fella. You are a true pioneer!

I can only reminisce riding my Raleigh Wildcat bicycle in the streets of Oxfordshire going to school in the late 80s while bumping Rapper's Delight in my Discman.

I thought I was the flyest African kid in the entire school. Now looking back I say to myself 'what the heck was I thinking?'.

But I was just going through a phase that many kids go through.

Check out some of the classic lines from the song that are now synonymous with hip-hop.

I'm Imp the Dimp, the ladies pimp
The women fight for my delight
But I'm the grandmaster with the three MCs

That shock the house for the young ladies
And when you come inside into the front

You do the freak, spank, and do the bump
And when the sucker MCs try to prove a point....

I go hotel, motel whatchu gonna do today
I'm gonna get a fly girl, gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ

Everybody go hotel, motel, holiday inn....

True that!
and since then there has been many versions of this line:


...Just throw your hands up in the air
And party hardy like you just don't care...

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

True that!
and since then there has been many versions of this line:


...Just throw your hands up in the air
And party hardy like you just don't care...

I thought we'd get more hip-hop heads chiming in in this thread.
LebronWade Kiranga

 

[Nazjaz]

byani ngabu mbona hamsikitiki?

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

byani ngabu mbona hamsikitiki?

No need to be sad.

But we have every reason to celebrate.

 

[Kiranga]

I heard about this.

Last night I was revisiting "The Message" and how pivotal that ghetto anthem was.

May all beings attain enlightenment.