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The first hip-hop record is widely regarded to be the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", from 1979. It was the first hip-hop record to gain widespread popularity in the mainstream and was where hip-hop music got its name from (from the opening bar). [111]
The "Hip Hop Hit List" was also the first to define hip hop as a culture introducing the many aspects of the art form such as fashion, music, dance, the arts and most importantly the language. For instance, on the cover the headliner included the tag "All Literature was Produced to Meet Street Comprehension!"
On September 16, 1979, The Sugarhill Gang released the single Rapper's Delight, which became the first commercially successful hip-hop song. It was the first rap song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 37, and peaked at number 4 on the R&B charts. [5] It is often mistaken as the first recorded hip hop song. [1]
At the time of hip-hop's inception, the Bronx had the highest poverty rate of not just New York City, but of all 62 counties in New York state. Fifty years later, it holds that same status.
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
A hip-hop dancer at Zona club in Moscow. The history of hip-hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City.
The album peaked at 53 on the Billboard 200, but you’ll find plenty of hip-hop heads (this one included) who would tell you it’s the single best album released on 9/29/98.
Rapper Roxanne Shante, one of the first ladies in hip-hop, paved the way for women in the genre in 1978, but it wasn’t easy. “It's truly an honor for me to be a lady in hip-hop.