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The Essentials: The Sugarhill Gang

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Album Review

Sugarhill Gang's biggest hits are collected on this single-disc compilation. In addition to "Rapper's Delight" — the first rap single to reach the pop Top Ten — the group's seven other R&B hits are included on the disc, plus three other singles that never made the charts. All of the songs are presented in their original 12" versions. Not all of the material is first-rate — in retrospective, the group's old-school groove tended to be a little simplistic, monotonous, and too polished, while their rhymes were frequently stilted and sometimes just outright silly — but this music, especially "Rapper's Delight," is important historically. Most casual fans of old-school hip-hop will be content with purchasing "Rapper's Delight" on a various-artists collection, but for those wanting to dig deeper into the trio's history, The Best of Sugarhill Gang is a definitive retrospective.

Customer Reviews

APACHE RULES!!

APACHE IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER!! I like Rappers Delight as well, but I gotta' give props to Apache. I request it at every party I go to and always make a fool of myself by doing the choreography that goes along with it perfectly, from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which is so famous and so much fun to do. But sometimes when I request Apache, the stupid DJs play all of these terrible remixes of it!! Like the Sir Mix-A-Lot version. He's talking during all of the cool instrumental parts and now...it gets worse with the new Missy Elliot version which is HORRIBLE!! She just talks during the whole thing, every freaking part; you can’t hear the instruments at all!! The original Apache is the best and is actually a remix of The Ventures song “Apache.” So that means if the Sugarhill Gang’s Apache is a remix, then there are two other remixes of a remix!! You can’t remix a remix!! Who in their right mind would remix a remix!??!?! Anyway, this just shows that Apache is awesome and the other “remixes” ARE NOT!! All in all, this is a good record. APACHE IS THE COOLEST!!

OldSkool

THe Sugar Hill gang Is better than another other rappers out there today, not only because there voices are awsome but there lyrics are better BUY IT

THE BEST

they are the real thing and dont talk smack they are the best

Biography

Formed: 1979 in New York, NY

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Though the Sugarhill Gang inaugurated the history of recorded hip-hop with their single "Rapper's Delight," a multi-platinum-seller and radio hit in 1979, the group was cooked up to cash in on a supposed novelty item. Music industry producer and label owner Sylvia Robinson had become aware of the massive hip-hop block parties occurring around the New York area during the late '70s, so she gathered three local rappers (Master Gee, Wonder Mike, and Big Bank Hank) to record a single. Infectious and...
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