Good morning to all!
Sugarhill Gang
"When we walked into the studio, Mike, Hank and I... I had no idea what a recording was like.
We put on headphones
We decided who would go first according to what was said.
Mike said: [What you hear is not proof].
We thought it was a good way to start a song.
Mike started it. He passed it on to Hank, Hank passed it on to me. I gave it back to Mike, Mike to Hank.
We kept it up. No one said to stop.
They didn’t tell us anything. We followed.
We put it back and forth like it was a party". Master Gee
"[Rapper’s Delight] hits the streets and is sure to be a terrible success". Bill Adler
What did you think the first time you heard [Rapper’s Delight]?
"I loved it, and the volcano did: [BOOOOM! ].
Here we are. It exploded in 1979". Kool Herc
"The song was on all the radio stations, all the cars, the taxis, the tape recorders, the radios of all the houses.
That song was repeated 24 hours a day". Kurtis Blow
"We lived in a five-story building. They put it on every floor.
You know, there were three cars and in all three it sounded.
You changed radio station. I was on all three stations.". Melle Mel
"You can go from beginning to end. You know, all the lyrics.
It is perhaps the only rap record in history that everyone knows every word of. "Kool Moe Dee
"They passed the microphone like improvising or at a party in a house with a real Mc vibe, and listening I said to my friend: [No, no, no. It wasn’t a recorded tape. You don’t play it on the radio].
I was thinking, [This is a song, man. I’m telling you, it’s a real song]". Big Daddy Kane
It spread like wildfire.
In August 1979, I worked in a candy factory and in September I opened the show for Parliament Funkadelic.
People called and said: [We want you to play your song here in Brussels, here in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Venezuela. We’ll bring you in. We’ll pay for tickets, hotels. And then we’ll pay for the show.
Really?
[Rapper’s Delight] blew up Hip Hop.
It was the world’s first hit, a gigantic hit.
Opened a new genre of music" Wonder Mike
"There was nothing before us, man.
We are the first rap stars in the world, period. We are the mold.
The whole picture of being a rap star: Elegant, famous, on television
We are the first to do it". Master Gee
And what did the others think of the record?
I don’t mean the ordinary public, but the people who are part of this.
"The Hip Hop community was thinking: [What the hell is that? Who the hell are they? What is this crap? What are they doing to our art?]. Do you understand?
It was like... It’s the first connection of people with what we were doing, with what we had been doing for 7 years". Grandmaster Caz
"We hated her so much.
It was the worst crap. The stupidest song loved by all idiots.
Then people would come and tell us: [You have to make a record like that].
And we were like: [Well, how are we gonna make a garbage like that? ]". Melle Mel
"People thought they invented rap.
Do you understand what I’m saying? Because no one had heard it.
People were ecstatic. It was fun.
It was all the stuff that was always hip hop.
But the people who created it didn’t". Nelson George
"And they recorded the rhymes that were from Cold Crush, from Hollywood that were from Starski, the rhymes that they had borrowed from these people, took several and recorded a record.
It was like, [Heck, they stole our shit]". Russell Simmons
"Hank was reciting a rhyme we already heard at the parties.
It was someone else’s rhyme.
And for us, that was forbidden.
They beat people for reciting someone else’s rhyme.
And there’s a record where the guy steals them and records them.
It was the worst of the worst". Grandmixer DXT
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