SEALED Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight RARE Mint 1979 Vinyl 12" Record Rappers

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You are bidding on a new, factory sealed copy from 1979.

Extremely rare and very hard to find sealed.

SUGARHILL GANG: RAPPER'S DELIGHT (New, Factory Sealed, Mint Record)

• New, Factory Sealed, Never Opened since 1979.

• Record in Mint Condition. Sleeve is VG+ (has a few creases as pictured)

• Small promo cut on top corner (as pictured)

• Very Rare and Collectible.

• Blue Label, 1st Pressing. The first release was on a red label then released that same year with the Sugarhill Records logo on a blue label.

• Side A: Long Version (15:00); Side B: Short Version (6:30)

• Get your copy here now before it's gone.

Overview

"Rapper's Delight" is a song recorded in 1979 by The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that introduced hip hop music to audiences in the United States and around the world. The song is ranked #251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. It is also included in NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011.[2] Songs on the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[3]

The song was recorded in a single take.[4] There are three versions of the original version of the song: 15:00 (12" long version), 6:30 (12" short version), and 4:55 (7" shortened single version).

In late 1978, Debbie Harry suggested that Chic's Nile Rodgers join her and Chris Stein at a hip hop event, which at the time was a communal space taken over by teenagers with boombox stereos playing various pieces of music that performers would break dance to. Rodgers experienced this event the first time himself at a high school in the Bronx. On September 20, 1979, and September 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium. When Chic started playing "Good Times", rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang ("Big Bank Hank" Jackson, Mike Wright, and "Master Gee" O'Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band. A few weeks later Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards' bass line from Chic's "Good Times". Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem. The song turned out to be an early version of "Rapper's Delight", which also included a scratched version of the song's string section. Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.[5] Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be "one of his favorite songs of all time" and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic[6][better source needed]. He also stated: "As innovative and important as 'Good Times' was, 'Rapper's Delight' was just as much, if not more so."[7] "Rapper's Delight" is said to be the song that popularized rap music and put it into the mainstream.