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Sugarhill Gang’s Wonder Mike on “Rapper’s Delight”: ‘We Knew We Had a Hit’
SPIN via AOL· 10 months agoWonder Mike (né Michael Wright) had been rapping for just two months when Sugar Hill Records founder...
'I said a hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie / to the hip, hip-hop and you don't stop...'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn R&B singer-songwriter-turned-exec, Sylvia Robinson founded the seminal rap label Sugar Hill...
How Cassettes and Tape-Trading Shaped Hip-Hop’s Early Years
SPIN via AOL· 4 months agoHow Cassettes and Tape-Trading Shaped Hip-Hop’s Early Years In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture...
These 4 hip-hop songs are among the most influential, and they have ties to Bergen
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe roots of hip-hop might be firmly planted at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx, but its branches...
And they don't stop: NJ's Sugarhill Gang to play NJPAC as hip-hop celebrates 50 years
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAnyone passing by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on Thursday evening will hear...
Members of Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang will help celebrate Bergen's hip-hop roots
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHACKENSACK — The Bronx may be widely known as the birthplace of hip-hop, but the genre also has deep...
Keith LeBlanc, Drummer For Sugar Hill Records And R.E.M., Dead At 69
VIBE via Yahoo News· 2 months agoKeith LeBlanc, a legendary drummer who worked with pioneering Hip-Hop group the Sugarhill Gang and...
Bergen's hip-hop scene went mainstream in the '80s. This new exhibit celebrates it
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Rink, in Bergenfield, may not be the mean streets of L.A., or a burnt-out block in the Bronx....
Keith LeBlanc, Pioneering Drummer on Early Hip-Hop Classics by Grandmaster Flash and Sugar Hill...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 months agoKeith LeBlanc, a drummer, producer and recording artist best known for his work on pioneering early...
50 photos that showcase the evolution of hip-hop over the past 50 years
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Notorious B.I.G.Getty/Clarence Davis Hip-hop is now 50 years old. The genre was born in The...