FIRST TIME HEARING The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (Official Video) REACTION

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  • @laurakali6522
    @laurakali6522 3 года назад +2587

    Gotta love all us middle aged people who can recall all the lyrics but can’t remember where we placed our keys........

  • @joeday4293
    @joeday4293 3 года назад +852

    In the hip hop Bible, page 1 starts "In the beginning, there was the Sugar Hill Gang."

    • @paperclips4113
      @paperclips4113 3 года назад +6

      🤣😂😂😂🤣😂💥😂💥😂💥🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂💥(edit) Joe that "bible" is some funny stuff

    • @maplenutgoodie9118
      @maplenutgoodie9118 3 года назад +7

      Preach.

    • @enigmasept927
      @enigmasept927 3 года назад +33

      In the beginning, there was Kool Herc...

    • @773SleepyHollow
      @773SleepyHollow 3 года назад +16

      Uh, no.
      Good Lord, man, the song is a classic, but this is not, not, NOT the start of hip-hop.
      Hip-hop started in the South Bronx, not New Jersey.

    • @petrified0035
      @petrified0035 3 года назад +21

      No it doesn’t obviously you don’t know hip hop because it started in 1973 with DJ Kool Herc not sugar hill gang

  • @michaelwhelan2376
    @michaelwhelan2376 3 года назад +588

    1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

    • @tamitaylor3110
      @tamitaylor3110 3 года назад +6

      Totally remember this. I was in 9th grade!!

    • @JRcomments
      @JRcomments 3 года назад +9

      It hit top 40 in 1980 because it got pulled in '79 for copyright infringement. The song is a ripoff of Chic's Good Times. It was soon after re released when they finally credited Chic on the record. I think if you have the red label 12" single, that is the original release. I remember hearing the 12" single in '79 for the first time and went wow. Amazing to think that Deborah Harry of Blondie had a hand in introducing Sugar Hill Gang with Chic to the NY underground scene where they would rap and break dance to boom boxes. Where it all began.

    • @charlesstevensiii7762
      @charlesstevensiii7762 3 года назад +2

      Grandmaster Flash and the Furuis Five "Beat Street Break Down"

    • @virginiaorosco2681
      @virginiaorosco2681 3 года назад +1

      Drunk History on Comedy Central did a episode on this song

    • @toscabella18
      @toscabella18 3 года назад +2

      And still the greatest rap song ever!!!

  • @unknownrailfan2731
    @unknownrailfan2731 3 года назад +333

    THIS SONG LAUNCHED A MUSICAL REVOLUTION.

    • @cataranneth8517
      @cataranneth8517 3 года назад +7

      YES, IT DID!

    • @Waltyworld
      @Waltyworld 3 месяца назад

      This was not the first rap or hip hop song so it didant

  • @2869may
    @2869may 3 года назад +949

    This was THE SH!T at the skating rink....LOL

    • @lilyj7742
      @lilyj7742 3 года назад +13

      I USE TO 🧊 ⛸️ ⛸️ 🙌🙌 TO THIS OLD SKOOL 🔥🔥 JAM

    • @susanturner1305
      @susanturner1305 3 года назад +11

      I think we all skated to this in the uk

    • @tarladearinger3210
      @tarladearinger3210 3 года назад +9

      Oh definitely!!

    • @chrstnanomee7494
      @chrstnanomee7494 3 года назад +10

      Skate City

    • @saigner71
      @saigner71 3 года назад +10

      Yeppers... And I can still sing it word for word

  • @dee_pendable1
    @dee_pendable1 3 года назад +601

    This where "rap" originated. They were the first. Everybody was singing this word for word! Man, such a great time to be alive...

    • @porttack8574
      @porttack8574 3 года назад +18

      Funny story, was going to a family party, we had all ages in the car this came on the radio everyone knew every word to it.

    • @trinimarie9974
      @trinimarie9974 3 года назад +2

      Exactly, happy days

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад +10

      I'm from NY and everyone in the hood was rapping males and females

    • @Merm35
      @Merm35 3 года назад +19

      And no foul language!!!!! We could sing it at school!!!!

    • @Muzica143
      @Muzica143 3 года назад +30

      This wasn't the first actually. This is what went mainstream first. It began with Fab 5 Freddy. As Sylvia Robinson moved thru the underground music/party scene (during the 1970s) , hip hop already was established and she basically wanted to recreate that sound on a larger scale.

  • @skirtedgalleons
    @skirtedgalleons 3 года назад +447

    This was IT. All the 50-year-olds here know all the words. Takes me back!

    • @jodiemaxwell375
      @jodiemaxwell375 3 года назад +8

      52 yr old white lady... checking in!! 🤣

    • @SRG4782
      @SRG4782 3 года назад +2

      Another 52 year old over here.

    • @randomheadful7190
      @randomheadful7190 3 года назад +2

      51 year old here lol

    • @rebeccaragan9916
      @rebeccaragan9916 3 года назад +3

      @@jodiemaxwell375 47 white lady here lol. Loved this

    • @TaylorMadeCori
      @TaylorMadeCori 3 года назад +3

      ALL THE WORDS. THE EXTENDED VERSION, AND NOT THAT RADIO EDIT!!!

  • @paulpayne9291
    @paulpayne9291 3 года назад +478

    I'm a 58 year old white guy from the south and I remember when this song came out. It was HUGE!!! We used to bounce to it at the skating rink. We would leave the video games,the snack bar or the fooseball tables to bounce to this. The floor would be packed!

    • @aliciariedel9342
      @aliciariedel9342 3 года назад +3

      Same in central Illinois shout out Decatur Illinois skaters love you guys learning my teenage jams

    • @tammycliver8142
      @tammycliver8142 3 года назад +7

      Yup! I am 50,and I still remember dropping everything to skate when it came on.

    • @micahgreene4573
      @micahgreene4573 3 года назад +8

      I can even smell the skating rink at this minute!

    • @antonybrown432
      @antonybrown432 3 года назад +6

      You're absolutely correct

    • @ms.bornagain57
      @ms.bornagain57 3 года назад +4

      Yes, best skating song.

  • @R-L-I
    @R-L-I 3 года назад +594

    This song didn’t invent rap but kicked off the golden era of hip hop.

    • @kemitamenophis3221
      @kemitamenophis3221 3 года назад +55

      When I was walking though Central Park in 1978, I had the privilege to see one of the founding fathers of Hip Hop: Kool Herc from the Bronx put on a block party. I was hooked ever since. They had all of the elements: DJs, Turntables, MCs, B Boys, Break Dancers, Graffiti Artists, Beat Boxers.They drew a huge crowd out of nowhere and had the entire Park Rockin!

    • @roger1296
      @roger1296 3 года назад +37

      They didn’t invent it, but were a part of it at the onset, and were the first to bring it to mainstream, and the first #1 song on the charts, so credit is most definitely deserved.

    • @R-L-I
      @R-L-I 3 года назад +4

      @@roger1296 I 100% agree

    • @cherneking6550
      @cherneking6550 3 года назад

      Preach❤❤❤👊

    • @lolitamarie9441
      @lolitamarie9441 3 года назад

      I agree !

  • @DrHilliman
    @DrHilliman 3 года назад +294

    Sugarhill is in Harlem. My parents lived there and that was my first home.
    And this young men was the first rap jam.

    • @dee_pendable1
      @dee_pendable1 3 года назад +9

      The movie Sugar Hill (Wesley Snipes) was a good one.

    • @malindaflowers4556
      @malindaflowers4556 3 года назад +1

      @@dee_pendable1, that movie was excellent!

    • @newclothes8165
      @newclothes8165 3 года назад

      Thanks for educating the young Indian brothers on historic Sugar Hill

    • @cathyh2086
      @cathyh2086 3 года назад

      Great jam for roller skating ♥️

    • @joeday4293
      @joeday4293 3 года назад +2

      According to Duke Ellington, you must take the A train to go to Sugar Hill up in Harlem.

  • @cooldew806
    @cooldew806 3 года назад +170

    I watched this with my 29 year old daughter. She looked at me like I was crazy because new all the words.Lol!!! We grew up with the best music!!!

    • @Chula92
      @Chula92 2 года назад +1

      I’m 32 tell your daughter .. no excuses!!! Lol this the only time I hear mom rap

  • @oooUtube
    @oooUtube 3 года назад +122

    As a 54 year old white woman from Nova Scotia who grew up with this and still knows all the words, i thoroughly enjoyed watching them hear it for the first time.....Lmao!! That was awesome....lol!

  • @lisalevy3411
    @lisalevy3411 3 года назад +577

    This IS the original! Introduced rap to everyone. Sugarhill is in NYC. Learn the song and impress your friends.

    • @AngryPostmanStockholm
      @AngryPostmanStockholm 3 года назад +7

      lol, fact!

    • @jellybathwater
      @jellybathwater 3 года назад +7

      I thought Rapture by Blondie was the first rap song

    • @AngryPostmanStockholm
      @AngryPostmanStockholm 3 года назад +1

      @@jellybathwater Now you confuse me, dunno if there is such song or did you wordplay with "rap"ture? ☻

    • @buckstraw925
      @buckstraw925 3 года назад +35

      @@jellybathwater Neither are the first rap song but this one from 1979 is the first one that got popular. Blondie's Rapture is from 1981. Rapper's Delight was HUGE back in 1979.

    • @ktjankabar
      @ktjankabar 3 года назад +12

      Still know every word. Just classic!!

  • @msbeaverhausen7226
    @msbeaverhausen7226 3 года назад +248

    I am officially an old woman. Rapper's Delight was my first rap song that I heard when I was 14 years old!! I love that Good Times is sampled!

    • @wendyweekendgourmet
      @wendyweekendgourmet 3 года назад +7

      Ha...I just said the same thing! I was also 14 when Rapper’s Delight was on the radio!

    • @lilyj7742
      @lilyj7742 3 года назад +5

      SAME HERE ,👵 I WAS 16 WHEN I HEARD THIS 🔥 OLD SKOOL JAM , & I USE 🧊 ⛸️ ⛸️ TO THIS 🎶 🙌🙌

    • @saigner71
      @saigner71 3 года назад +4

      Me too! 👵

    • @Bibiznatch
      @Bibiznatch 3 года назад +4

      I got you beat. I was 11. :)

    • @janethernandez724
      @janethernandez724 3 года назад +5

      Same here! I too was 14 when I first heard this song! I still love listening to it too!

  • @hugosequeira2997
    @hugosequeira2997 3 года назад +145

    The full song is 14 minutes of pure freestyling goodness...

  • @amypatrick2030
    @amypatrick2030 3 года назад +215

    Note I'm just a white middle aged lady originally from the West Coast, and I'm no expert... But I'm surprised that no one has explained that Sugar Hill is in upper Manhattan, in between Harlem and Washington Heights. Being from Sugar Hill probably stood for something back in the day. And those have to be Nile Roger's riffs that were sampled (Niles is a famous musician and producer and in the band Chic).

    • @lesleyutley9210
      @lesleyutley9210 3 года назад +3

      Nile!!!

    • @mariaassante620
      @mariaassante620 3 года назад +9

      Nile’s Good Times riff

    • @grandmasterratte1252
      @grandmasterratte1252 3 года назад +13

      Right, thanks. Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in Harlem at around 145th st. The group was created by and named after the record label (Sugar Hill Records), even though they were all from New Jersey. The music is "Good Times" by Chic, but it's played by the Sugar Hill studio band.

    • @thenumbdave
      @thenumbdave 3 года назад +3

      @@grandmasterratte1252 I heard they weren't able to record the backing track and have the guys rap over it later, they had to keep playing it live till the guys got a good take!

    • @_whatsername1911
      @_whatsername1911 3 года назад

      Hamilton Heights*

  • @jewelofaries
    @jewelofaries 3 года назад +345

    "Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn. If your girl start acting up, then you take her friend." Sa'weet!!! R.I.P. Big Bank Hank.

    • @paulmuaddib3470
      @paulmuaddib3470 3 года назад +10

      Brilliant, The Message by grandmaster Flash also brilliant 😉👍

    • @kennyphillips6281
      @kennyphillips6281 3 года назад +9

      Uh Master Gee, my mellow?
      It's on you so what you gonna do?... 🎤🤣

    • @SRG4782
      @SRG4782 3 года назад +6

      @@kennyphillips6281 well it's on and and on and on on and on, the beat don't stop until the break of dawn 🎤

    • @kennyphillips6281
      @kennyphillips6281 3 года назад +9

      @@SRG4782 I said a M-A-S, a T-E-R, a G with a double E
      I said I go by the unforgettable name of the man they call the Master Gee 🎤🤣

    • @reneesydnor-henry4538
      @reneesydnor-henry4538 3 года назад +4

      Well I'm not as tall as the rest of the gang but I rap to the beat just the same. I got a lil face and a pair of brown. All I'm here to do is hypnotize.

  • @floorticket
    @floorticket 3 года назад +210

    Frankie Smith: "Double Dutch Bus" (1981)

  • @andrealarocco4941
    @andrealarocco4941 3 года назад +165

    Any time I here Holiday Inn it always makes me wanna shout “Hotel motel holiday inn””!!! Lol 😂 This is legit a classic song regardless of genres!!
    ✌️💗😊

  • @marshall9093
    @marshall9093 3 года назад +191

    Fred’s normally chill, but this is the most he’s ever bopped along to a banger. Great to see both guys enjoying it!

    • @paperclips4113
      @paperclips4113 3 года назад +5

      He has come out of his original shell
      ...great to see him be more outgoing. Neat to watch. (Edit) PLUS a hairdresser...we know he has sh** to SAY! Lol

  • @jennhurl
    @jennhurl 3 года назад +90

    Seeing Tim & Fred throw their hands up and jam to the first rap song ever literally made me smile so much my face hurts. 🤣❤🎵✌

  • @juliemcdaniel499
    @juliemcdaniel499 3 года назад +230

    Group of 3 MC's that had the 1st hip hop single 2 ever reach top 40 charts. This is the genesis of rap. React 2 "APACHE" next.

    • @hmaz7637
      @hmaz7637 3 года назад +8

      Omg, Apache! Yes! I had that 45 when I was in preschool. 😄

    • @coachhumph5524
      @coachhumph5524 3 года назад +6

      Apache is absolutely EPIC!!

    • @juliemcdaniel499
      @juliemcdaniel499 3 года назад +3

      @@coachhumph5524 hands down

    • @deborahchasteen3206
      @deborahchasteen3206 3 года назад +2

      Guys, I loved the song, but “Apache” isn’t cool with Native Americans at all. That woo-woo-woo-woo -woo! is like doing an ethnic slur accent and Tonto doesn’t mean friend, like the Lone Ranger says. It means stupid.

    • @hmaz7637
      @hmaz7637 3 года назад +1

      Deborah Chasteen Very true. I hadn’t listened to it in years, but when I did yesterday (after seeing this reaction) I was surprised by all I’d forgotten. Definitely not ok. It sucks because the beat is so great.

  • @iraidalily2384
    @iraidalily2384 3 года назад +41

    I’m in my fifties and this was the first rap song that hit the top 40 on the radio. It stands the test of time , it was fun and funny and had no vulgarity. It’s better than ANY rap song that is out today. I did enjoy watching both of you experience it for the first time.

    • @arturoromero951
      @arturoromero951 Год назад

      It’s a classic and it influenced multiple kinds of hip hop. However, it’s just your taste. It doesn’t mean any rap song today isn’t better than this. There’s a lot of rap songs today that are just as good, so maybe tone it down, will ya?

  • @cynthiareyesarzadon9754
    @cynthiareyesarzadon9754 3 года назад +127

    Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message"

    • @volareohoh2413
      @volareohoh2413 3 года назад +3

      Yessssssss

    • @sw8704
      @sw8704 3 года назад +2

      OMG!! That song is a blast of the past!! I forgot about Grandmaster Flash!! Great song...!! 😀👍

    • @kikiciesielski5824
      @kikiciesielski5824 3 года назад +3

      Yes please react to The Message

    • @therapsheethoodbook
      @therapsheethoodbook 3 года назад +3

      That's the best rap song ever

  • @13terapyn
    @13terapyn 3 года назад +165

    "Now what you hear is not a test, I'm rappin' to the beat..." A white 14 yr old boy listening to KDAY, an AM station broadcast from a tiny studio in Compton, CA. Transistor radio under my pillow so I didn't get in trouble cause I was supposed to be asleep. Hearing this through the static cause the station's signal barely reached my house not 5 miles away in my town of Paramount, CA. Next day at school EVERYBODY was talking about it. By the time it hit the pop stations we already knew every word. This song was HUGE. Appreciate KDAY for teaching me about Curtis Blow, GMF and The Furious 5, Lakeside and many other GREAT inventors of Hip Hop and Rap. 💓💓💘❣

    • @vh6307
      @vh6307 3 года назад +1

      Hey nah!!🙋🏾‍♀️🤗

    • @ledzepgirl48
      @ledzepgirl48 3 года назад +1

      I ditto , that lol

    • @adamwarlock1
      @adamwarlock1 3 года назад +8

      Man this has so many tropes that show up all over the place ("put your hands in the air"). But funny to think that "not a test" was literally him explaining to the audience why he was on the mic.

    • @suitcafe
      @suitcafe 3 года назад +1

      Curtis Blow The Breaks

    • @lindabortell7263
      @lindabortell7263 3 года назад +1

      I moved to LA from NJ in 1989 and was so sad about music in LA until I found KDAY

  • @hargettheartz6539
    @hargettheartz6539 3 года назад +166

    Good choice. These guys ARE hip hop royalty and pioneers. Sugar Hill is a NY location. Love that you all reacted to this feel good song 😍

    • @marian.jablonski54
      @marian.jablonski54 3 года назад +8

      Yes, Sugar Hill is in Harlem in NYC - but the members of Sugar Hill Gang are all from Englewood, New Jersey They were mentored by Sylvia Robinson, founder of Sugar Hill Records. Sylvia Robinson is also the force behind the 1982's The Message by GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five. She's been called The Mother of Hip-Hop (and had a successful singing career as LIttle Sylvia dating back to the 1950s). Younger people might not be familiar with The Message - here's the link in case anyone is interested - ruclips.net/video/PobrSpMwKk4/видео.html

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 3 года назад +2

      @@marian.jablonski54 ya...that's why these guys need to check out grandmaster flash

  • @jenniferdixon7633
    @jenniferdixon7633 3 года назад +34

    This song was like, “What the hell is this” in 1979, but it grew on all of us right quick because they spoke to everyone. “But the chicken tastes like wood” bah ha ha.

    • @Ivy94F
      @Ivy94F 3 года назад +1

      That was always my favorite verse!!

  • @Sasseevee
    @Sasseevee 3 года назад +29

    I was 12 years old bopping Rappers Delight...The beginnings of rap. .40 years later and I still know all the words. #skiddlybeebopwerockscoobydooguesswhatamericaweloveyou

  • @terimiddleton6596
    @terimiddleton6596 3 года назад +110

    Go find the full 14:46 min. You don't have to react but owe it to yourself to hear the full piece. It broke original rap into heavy radio play and started the change in the industry

    • @catrin17m64
      @catrin17m64 3 года назад +10

      You are so right. Back then we all memorized the entire thing. It was a labor of love and unlike no other song we ever heard.

    • @lacyinmon1004
      @lacyinmon1004 3 года назад +3

      I agree completely

    • @mslinstrot4643
      @mslinstrot4643 3 года назад +6

      It was another of those songs they said would never even get played on the radio because it was too long, let alone be a hit! Boy did they have it wrong!!

    • @AngelaInAZ
      @AngelaInAZ 3 года назад +4

      Yea! Got to listen to the whole song.

    • @kimberlinibambini1988
      @kimberlinibambini1988 3 года назад +1

      Yes!!Many chopped , shortened versions on RUclips..

  • @catrin17m64
    @catrin17m64 3 года назад +24

    1980. We all HAD to learn word for word. Awesome. And I still know it! The original version was 13 minutes! This was the first rap record we knew!!

  • @RCfromtheNYC
    @RCfromtheNYC 3 года назад +21

    Man, this song always takes me back to my rollerskating youth of the late 70s and early 80s. Whenever this song played, if you weren't skating to it, you were dancing to it!
    #RIPBigBankHank

  • @billbrandine5857
    @billbrandine5857 3 года назад +35

    Man, you just heard the godfathers and creators of hip hop. This song started it all.

    • @a.c.6475
      @a.c.6475 Год назад

      Excuse me!....before you continue to spread misinformation, I must correct you!
      No 1...they are not the godfathers of hip-hop! They were the first group to sell platinum for this particular genre! This is in 1979-80.
      No 2... "Hip-hop"...a phrase said 1st by the emcee "Cowboy" from the group Grandmaster Flash & the furious five actually started in 1976 onward, the term is a movement which included DJing, street dancing/breaking, graffiti art and rapping/emcee! To take it a step further, the concept of rapping on the mic, with a large mobile sound system to entertain large crowds comes from the island of Jamaica/ West Indies. Infact, 2 of hip hops pioneer dj's are Grandmaster Flash who is from Barbados, and dj Kool Herc who is from Jamaica!

    • @billbrandine5857
      @billbrandine5857 Год назад

      @@a.c.6475 That was excellent. Thanks for the info. Now, you have to correct the other 100K people who believe this.

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano 3 года назад +41

    This is the song that started it all. "I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie \ To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock \ It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie \ To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat" -- The song they're rappin over is "Good Times" by Chic.

    • @GranFelicia
      @GranFelicia 3 года назад +4

      growing up we all knew these lyrics, I'm now 53 and still know them by heart!! Loved their reaction

    • @cici7333
      @cici7333 3 года назад +2

      @@GranFelicia yes! I'm 55, and I do too. Fun times.

    • @glennallen239
      @glennallen239 3 года назад +2

      @@cici7333 I am 56 and remembered the verses. I loved the14 min long version of the song as well.

  • @marcilk7534
    @marcilk7534 3 года назад +68

    Who else has the entire song memorized and was singing along? I can’t do the long version, but this one I have it down. Been listening to this song since I was a child. My parents have the original album still.

    • @kymberlymaxwelljohnson5846
      @kymberlymaxwelljohnson5846 3 года назад +7

      Lol I can do the long version EVERY WORD 1st record I ever bought with my own money and learned it to impress Wendell Trig but he got mad when I could rap it better than him lol 😂

    • @karenkelly-dillenbeck9209
      @karenkelly-dillenbeck9209 3 года назад +1

      Oh .... you bet !!!

    • @tam9614
      @tam9614 3 года назад +2

      I do & I was . I can sing along with the long version too, but I like the short version best.

  • @lynnwilkinson1176
    @lynnwilkinson1176 3 года назад +48

    Hi guys, you've got another "older" admirer here. In fact, my son is older than you both. I'll take you back to 1976 when I was in high school. How about "Play That Funky Music" by White Cherry. 29m Utube hits ain't too bad!! We liked our music loud...so turn it UP!!

  • @johnconway8334
    @johnconway8334 3 года назад +14

    The beat is "Good Times" by Chic - check it out. Sugarhill is a neighborhood in Harlem, Manhattan, NYC. Rap is believed to have started in the Bronx by Kool Herc in the projects on Sedgewick Ave.

    • @lauraannnoble2037
      @lauraannnoble2037 3 года назад +2

      What he said! I hope they listen to Good Times as well at some point. 🙌

  • @terimiddleton6596
    @terimiddleton6596 3 года назад +256

    P.s. They"didn't know the song" THIS IS the song. It was the first

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад +19

      First hip hop I heard at the skating rink.... late 70's

    • @Destyn2b
      @Destyn2b 3 года назад +9

      The day I fell in love with hip hop.

    • @chefpfunk1
      @chefpfunk1 3 года назад +2

      @@2869may FOR AND THE CREW I RAN WITH IT WAS THE ICE RINK.

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад +3

      @@chefpfunk1 So you were a little more chillin.... lol

    • @level2boxing749
      @level2boxing749 3 года назад +3

      This song is an American classic, so much that they stole the lyrics.

  • @tarladearinger3210
    @tarladearinger3210 3 года назад +146

    This was THE song back in my day! We are all white girls in our late 50’s and we still sing this song to this day. And we know all the words too!

    • @vh6307
      @vh6307 3 года назад +7

      Yup....the TIMELESS INFINITE 70s & 80's..........S. I. G. H......!!! ☺️🤗🙋🏾‍♀️

    • @lisafromnj2277
      @lisafromnj2277 3 года назад +15

      I’m a 59 year old white grandma from NJ ,when my son got married I was asked to come on the dance floor to rap this song as the DJ played it. Even though it had been over 35 yrs I didn’t miss a lyric

    • @MsOneDrop
      @MsOneDrop 3 года назад +4

      Great time at the skating rink, Rapper’s Delight was the best to skate to!

    • @KirkFields
      @KirkFields 3 года назад

      Cool beans, thanks for the share! 👍☺️✌️

    • @monicamad1285
      @monicamad1285 3 года назад

      100%

  • @onesmoovealpha
    @onesmoovealpha 3 года назад +38

    They missed that part:
    "If your girl starts acting up... then you take her friend..."

    • @brandib8465
      @brandib8465 3 года назад

      Haha I noticed that

    • @sjhoulihan9934
      @sjhoulihan9934 3 года назад

      That's because the original version is over 14 minutes long...the other long song was The Adventures of Super Rhymes(over 14 minutes long), by Jimmy Spicer. This white boy has been listening to the genre since 1978...and actually, the first Hip Hop single is credited to The Fatback Band - King Tee III (Personality Jock). Released a few months BEFORE Rapper's Delight.

  • @asiahenry7798
    @asiahenry7798 3 года назад +49

    This was at the tailend of the disco era, so yeah everybody wore tight clothes lol. Tight polyester bell bottome lol

  • @leslieg.9213
    @leslieg.9213 3 года назад +61

    This song put rap on the map. Took it from local to national.

    • @vh6307
      @vh6307 3 года назад +3

      INDEED 👊🏾

    • @gellotion
      @gellotion 3 года назад

      From Harlem and the Bronx, a gift to the entire world 👊

  • @reneesydnor-henry4538
    @reneesydnor-henry4538 3 года назад +97

    I'm 54 that was our song in tbe day. I sang every word

    • @lisalevy3411
      @lisalevy3411 3 года назад +2

      It was everything. I am 54 as well.

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад +3

      52 and can still sing every word...lol

    • @marcilk7534
      @marcilk7534 3 года назад +2

      Me too. Age 47.

    • @barijohnson9699
      @barijohnson9699 3 года назад +1

      52 and yes can sing every word

    • @kimberlinibambini1988
      @kimberlinibambini1988 3 года назад +3

      I’m 50, same! Every word! And this was just a portion of the song- it was the entire side of the 33 vinyl album-

  • @Deetroiter
    @Deetroiter 3 года назад +15

    The dude getting down with the flame suit always made me die laughing

  • @zoewhite6817
    @zoewhite6817 3 года назад +22

    Dee-lite, Groove is in the Heart, blends different tones.

  • @pamporter5752
    @pamporter5752 3 года назад +24

    OMG! I haven’t heard this in years! It takes me back to my 1st year in college. Guys this is the beginning of Rap.

  • @rob4793
    @rob4793 3 года назад +351

    This is the first Rap Song recorded, the start of Rap Music.

    • @2apocalypsex
      @2apocalypsex 3 года назад +26

      Actually Rappers Delight is not the first Rap song ever recorded. Although it doesn't get the credit the actual first Rap song recorded is King Tim III (Personality Jock) by Bill Curtis and the Fatback Band. It was released just a few months before Rappers Delight but didn't become as popular.

    • @Bigshlongdinglidong
      @Bigshlongdinglidong 3 года назад +25

      @@2apocalypsex I think rappers delight was the first rap song to chart.

    • @EugeneActon
      @EugeneActon 3 года назад +12

      @@Bigshlongdinglidong it was the first to hit top 40

    • @Ilovewbd
      @Ilovewbd 3 года назад +12

      ...and let's not forget "Funk You Up" by The Sequence right around that time. Female rappers...

    • @dongiovanni6796
      @dongiovanni6796 3 года назад +10

      @rob @aaron Neither is close to the first rap song. The oldest rap song I can find is from Pigmeat Markham, "Here Come the Judge" from 1968. Pigmeat is old at this time, and comes from the vaudeville school, so the humor aspects of the track don't play to modern rap sensibilities, but make no mistake, he is rapping, and the beat is funky.

  • @Wally-H
    @Wally-H 3 года назад +19

    Those were the days - Kurtis Blow, Hamilton Bohannon, The Disco 4, The Treacherous Three, Captain Sky, Doctor Ice - the real pioneers of rap

    • @brandisabourin3630
      @brandisabourin3630 2 года назад +1

      Wow bringing me back with those names ..we love that basketball..

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H 2 года назад +1

      @@brandisabourin3630 Basketball is my favourite sport, I love the way they dribble up and down the court. Just like I'm the king of the microphone, so is Dr J and Moses Malone. I love slam dunks and take me to the hoop - my favourite play is the alley oop. I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go, this is Basketball by Mr Kurtis Blow!

  • @ZumbaOrganic
    @ZumbaOrganic 3 года назад +7

    It’s kinda cute that they don’t know how iconic this song is. Basically the ground breaking rap song that made the genre what is today! Love these guys! And this song... no words. We played it until the grooves wore out and had to buy another record. Good days...

  • @djmcg01
    @djmcg01 3 года назад +66

    YhoaaThese are the GOATs of hip hop . They paved the way for almost every rapper after their time. . This was the first rap song that broke radio play in the 70s

    • @2apocalypsex
      @2apocalypsex 3 года назад +1

      Actually, King Tim III (Personality Jock), by Bill Curtis and the Fatback Band came first just a few months before Rappers Delight.

    • @madameclark3453
      @madameclark3453 3 года назад +1

      And I was listening to this song in the 70’s.

    • @seanjohnson7367
      @seanjohnson7367 3 года назад +1

      Come on, they’re not the GOATs of anything. One of the MCs stole his verse line for line from another rapper.

  • @bosgaurus1
    @bosgaurus1 3 года назад +33

    This is the first _recorded_ rap performance ever in 1979.
    Rap had its beginnings at house parties in the Bronx and Harlem back in the 1970s. A good party needs good music, so guys would sit at the record players and play the songs everyone wanted to hear and dance to in their tight dancing clothes, literally becoming the House DJs.
    Sometimes the parties ran a little (or a lot) late and dudes' Moms would show up to drag them home. The "MC" would plug a mic into the stereo system and make announcements for them to go to the front door to see their Moms, or to move the mustang that was blocking cars in the driveway. Eventually, the MCs began to get creative with their announcements. That evolved into rap.
    And this song is the first rap that was recorded at a recording studio, like any other song would have been. Rap recorded and sold on vinyl albums and tapes became a thing in 1979. Two years later, Blondie's song Rapture, containing a lengthy rap section reached the Top 100 songs on the radio list and all of America heard rap for the first time.

    • @Sugarflyspy
      @Sugarflyspy 3 года назад

      Kool Herc!

    • @kikiciesielski5824
      @kikiciesielski5824 3 года назад +1

      Right? They were emcees and they were DJs. The DJs were the ones who are most popular and then as the emcees became more popular DJs felt back that’s what happened with Mellie mels group

  • @nyrockchicxx
    @nyrockchicxx 3 года назад +14

    I totally forgot that sometimes people then would refer to that type rap as "hippity-hop" music. Eventually cutting it down to hip-hop.

  • @subliteral
    @subliteral 3 года назад +5

    A classic never dies. Believe it or not , this recording changed everything from that point on. Hard to imagine the impact it had.

  • @HerLovesBooks
    @HerLovesBooks 3 года назад +110

    Wayment?!! Y'all just gettin' to Rapper's Delight. How and why? I'm 54. I still have my LP. This the genesis of rap!

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад +6

      Was the Sh!t at the skating rink.... Everyone on the floor..!

    • @MarisolLopez-hp7go
      @MarisolLopez-hp7go 3 года назад +1

      You have a treasure of an LP!
      #TalkinBoutOurGeneration

    • @HerLovesBooks
      @HerLovesBooks 3 года назад +4

      @@MarisolLopez-hp7go I know. I'll will that thing to my children. I purchased it with my own little teenage money. 👏🏾

    • @juliedavis7445
      @juliedavis7445 3 года назад +3

      I find it hard to believe they've never heard this before

    • @deniselauth2886
      @deniselauth2886 3 года назад +1

      At 56, I still have mine somewhere too!!!!!

  • @jasonremy1627
    @jasonremy1627 3 года назад +77

    The beat is sampled from the song "Good Times" by the band Chic. You should check that one out too. It's another classic.

    • @carolmay7
      @carolmay7 3 года назад +2

      yes, I was singing along... we are the good times!

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H 3 года назад

      It’s slowed down by a half note, as anyone who learnt to play it on the bass guitar will tell you

  • @debbieburris9453
    @debbieburris9453 Год назад +2

    The beginning of RAP ❤️ This will always be one of my favorite rap songs for the simple fact EVERYONE liked this song, it brought us together at the discos on the dance floor, skating rink, & all us kids rapping to it on the school bus😂❤️

  • @doratiscareno5856
    @doratiscareno5856 3 года назад +14

    WHEN WE RAPPED BACK THEN.... AT LEAST IT HAD A BEAT YOU COULD DANCE TOO 👏👏👏👍

  • @leahnole9771
    @leahnole9771 3 года назад +14

    One of the most famous lines from Rapper's Delight:
    "Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn,
    If your girl starts acting up
    Then you take her friend!"
    We use to get LIVE when that line came on!
    From a Sista in Brooklyn, NY

  • @karenjoseph7460
    @karenjoseph7460 3 года назад +37

    This song was the start of rap in 1979. The music they rapped to was, Good Times by Chic. I love it!

    • @monicamad1285
      @monicamad1285 3 года назад +4

      Everybody Dance & Le Freak!! Timeless!! These nice young men should check them out!! Chic!! 💖

  • @rachelgarcia672
    @rachelgarcia672 3 года назад +6

    I remember having this album and roller skating to this song!

  • @emptycarousels3950
    @emptycarousels3950 3 года назад +6

    "Hotel. Motel. HOLIDAY INN!" I love everything about this!

  • @glennallen239
    @glennallen239 3 года назад +51

    This is the First Rap Song, There is a 14 minute long version of the song you should react to. I remember when this song came out. I still remembered many of the verses,

    • @kimberlinibambini1988
      @kimberlinibambini1988 3 года назад +1

      Yessss! I played the album over and over- knew every verse started in elementary school - still do for the most part- This one song was the entire album- there’s sooo many chopped versions on RUclips-

    • @faronomus1589
      @faronomus1589 3 года назад +3

      Not the first ever rap
      However, it’s the very first rap to be get high sale aka to the mainstream

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад +1

      Yes there are two versions

  • @Dspicytarot
    @Dspicytarot 3 года назад +63

    The Show by Doug E Fresh, it might be hard to find but it's awesome!!

    • @DanielleGillmoreJohnson
      @DanielleGillmoreJohnson 3 года назад +1

      YES!!

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад +3

      oh Oh OH MY GOD....

    • @RobertaS127
      @RobertaS127 3 года назад

      It isn't hard to find. It's right here on RUclips.

    • @DanPLC
      @DanPLC 3 года назад +2

      This x1000000. The Show is the way to start off any party.

  • @jaybird1301
    @jaybird1301 3 года назад +4

    I am so glad that you two came out with this channel and enjoy the music us older generation grew up on. Rappers Delight was one of the best raps to roller skate 🛼 on. I am so happy y’all enjoyed it as much of my generation did...

  • @LisainLex
    @LisainLex 3 года назад +2

    Thank God for the young people.We are going to be all right.This is the very first rap record. A blue album. I still know all the words 40 years later.

  • @frannybaronian
    @frannybaronian 3 года назад +27

    THIS SONG IS EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @MikeJohnson-hp8lr
    @MikeJohnson-hp8lr 3 года назад +112

    Their performance of “Apache” should be your next Sugarhill Gang experience. Its a Native American-centered rap that really grooves!

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад +4

      Aaahh , it's funny you said that I just listened to that yesterday, most ppl don't know about that one. Only real rap heads know about these old song.

    • @MikeJohnson-hp8lr
      @MikeJohnson-hp8lr 3 года назад +6

      @@indirussell7083 I'm 60 years old and wear my “rap head” badge with pride!

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад

      @@MikeJohnson-hp8lr 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад +3

      @@MikeJohnson-hp8lr this is when rap made sense, I can't take this junk they make now, I'm from NY and all we had was our parents music and what was coming up. Block parties every summer , parks parties.

    • @MikeJohnson-hp8lr
      @MikeJohnson-hp8lr 3 года назад +3

      @@indirussell7083 I must admit that rap back in the day seemed for the most part to be upbeat and fun. Once the darker, more rebellious ‘gangsta’ style took over it really ruined it for me. That's just my personal opinion...there is a place for the harder type of rap, which has allowed for some really biting social commentary to be expressed, and there have been some very good songs come out of that, but for the most part I really miss the rap that celebrated positivity instead of promoting the whole gangsta lifestyle.

  • @maryedwards8307
    @maryedwards8307 3 года назад +5

    Thanks for watching this video. I just finished dancing and singing with every word! 🇨🇦💕

  • @dio52
    @dio52 3 года назад +3

    I've heard this song so many times over the years, but this time it finally hit me how many absolutely fundamental elements of rap came from it.

  • @cristiep7377
    @cristiep7377 3 года назад +65

    If you haven't heard Rapture by Blondie yet you absolutely should! Fun, early days of rap.

    • @ny4000
      @ny4000 3 года назад +6

      I’ve requested that song many times! Was the first song to go #1 on Billboard Hot 100 chart that had a rap portion in it. The tune really has so much historical significance. I will keep requesting it!

    • @JoanneDunham
      @JoanneDunham 3 года назад +4

      That's what I'm saying check it out
      www.songfacts.com/facts/blondie/rapture

  • @sweetpbaybee2140
    @sweetpbaybee2140 3 года назад +171

    Macaroni soggy the peas are mush and the chicken taste like wood

  • @PaulaCWard
    @PaulaCWard 3 года назад +6

    They broke ground on a whole new genre of music! EVERYBODY new this song! Good memories :-)

  • @MrLewisjr
    @MrLewisjr 3 года назад +13

    we need to bring back "sucka MC's" and "Jive Turkey"

  • @ashleystewart994
    @ashleystewart994 3 года назад +23

    PARTY!!!!! This group and this hit was the introduction of the RAP genre. These are the boys to say THANK YOU to for bringing REAL rap to the people!!!

  • @sheliafalgout5043
    @sheliafalgout5043 3 года назад +21

    I want u guys to know I’m a upper age white woman and I love watching u guys!! U make me smile and dance! Thank u so much for what u do! U lift my spirits, I wish everyone had your kind of spirit, I’m serious, the world needs your kind of love and acceptance! U go guys, please don’t stop!! U help the world! Seriously!

  • @shawndeehauskins5889
    @shawndeehauskins5889 3 года назад +4

    Classic!! They pulled me onstage in the 90's to dance w/them! Good times.

  • @SnappingTurtle801
    @SnappingTurtle801 3 года назад +29

    Fun fact: There's a long version of the song that is almost 15 minutes long.

    • @gimpalopagus
      @gimpalopagus 3 года назад +5

      That's the only version I listen to, go big or go home!

    • @paperclips4113
      @paperclips4113 3 года назад +1

      WOW!

    • @MsPepsi819
      @MsPepsi819 3 года назад +3

      That came on one day when I was leaving the garage at work, rapped all the way home! It literally went off when I was pulling in my driveway 🤣

  • @msfair3625
    @msfair3625 3 года назад +102

    I screamed noo that this is your 1st time hearing this.
    This'll be a treat.

    • @ChrisBennettGameDesign
      @ChrisBennettGameDesign 3 года назад +5

      And it was. 🔥🙌

    • @thepoeticbutcher3370
      @thepoeticbutcher3370 3 года назад +1

      @@ChrisBennettGameDesign .....Yes Lawd!!!

    • @toddanthonyy
      @toddanthonyy 3 года назад

      Yeah... it's funny when these "youngins" are hearing for the first time songs I have been listening to practically all my life. 🙄 🎼 📼 💿

  • @susanaltman5134
    @susanaltman5134 3 года назад +207

    Try Grand Master Flash: The Message, White Lines.

  • @ericaarnold7578
    @ericaarnold7578 3 года назад +1

    I was born in 1982 so this is my kind of music I still listen till this day. It brings back memories of my childhood like skating, cookouts, ect

  • @kawadia
    @kawadia 3 года назад +4

    This was another one of those songs I loved skating too. Glad y’all enjoyed it.

  • @StephanieJeanne
    @StephanieJeanne 3 года назад +24

    Yay!!! Finally!! These guys were on the cusp between disco and rap!! Thank you so much!! This is rap roots, guys!!😄✌️💙

  • @TMS5100
    @TMS5100 3 года назад +17

    This absolutely blew everyone's minds when it hit the airwaves. 🤯🤯🤯🤯 This came out when disco was in its last dying throes. Most people had never heard anything like it and were hungry for something new. Also this was before sampling machines existed, so everything had to be done the hard way.

  • @nittsstem2685
    @nittsstem2685 2 года назад +2

    This was the first rap song ever created. It created a whole new phenomenon. The music melody was from the song Le chic by the band chic. It was 1979 so disco was huge. Most people didn’t know what to do with this type of music and didn’t think there’d be another rap song ever. Here we are 42 years later and all rap singers should pay homage to sugar hill.

  • @naetiontv
    @naetiontv 3 года назад +9

    Fun fact: this is one of the first ever rap songs. 😂🔥

  • @racthe1595
    @racthe1595 3 года назад +137

    Listen to the song "Good Times" by Chic.Sugar Hill Gang sampled Chic's instrumental music for "Rappers' Delight".

    • @jillwklausen
      @jillwklausen 3 года назад +3

      You can totally hear it in the background.

    • @shaddoe6
      @shaddoe6 3 года назад +1

      just posted the same thing!

    • @jermainelong1843
      @jermainelong1843 3 года назад +6

      Not a sample - it was a live band cover. Sampling tech wasn't available in '79. Just saying.

    • @janethernandez724
      @janethernandez724 3 года назад +2

      Good one! That is correct "Good Times" by Chic is the background dance beat to this song!

    • @indirussell7083
      @indirussell7083 3 года назад +3

      That was the beat in the hood for every dj. Every dj had good times. My big brother and his crew were rappers and djs. Good times was a dj song and the instrumental is what djs scratched with. Your couldn't touch the records if you couldn't scratch without messing up the record. It was truly an art, damn my ppl are so talented

  • @Mergatroid_Skittle
    @Mergatroid_Skittle 3 года назад +28

    This song was, is, and always has been a straight bop

  • @___David___Savian
    @___David___Savian 3 года назад +3

    The group and the record company were named after the Sugar Hill, Harlem, neighborhood in New York City.

  • @kath2230
    @kath2230 3 года назад +4

    We knew every word to this song when I was in Junior High. Still remember every word.

  • @annieholbis2430
    @annieholbis2430 3 года назад +110

    They sampled Chic's "Good Times" in this song

    • @2869may
      @2869may 3 года назад

      great song..!

    • @Julieroo28
      @Julieroo28 3 года назад

      @Anna Gonzalez Ahhhh....didn’t know that! Definitely his music!!

    • @jillwklausen
      @jillwklausen 3 года назад

      They sure did.

    • @MindCrackerProd
      @MindCrackerProd 3 года назад

      @Anna Gonzalez yes! I forgot about that! Big controversy, lol.

    • @dannyshizzle76
      @dannyshizzle76 3 года назад

      Illegally 😅

  • @smitty8254
    @smitty8254 3 года назад +91

    Rap started with these guys. Well I put it like this. Rap has been around but these guys was the first to do on main stream media. On tv for the world to see and hear.

    • @aliahayes1604
      @aliahayes1604 3 года назад +6

      Thank you for making that distinction.

    • @todd6805
      @todd6805 3 года назад +2

      Not really this was the first main stream but rap has been around since the 50s and guys like James brown influenced rap

    • @faronomus1589
      @faronomus1589 3 года назад

      @@todd6805 rap has been around since the ancient days in Africa
      Specifically the griots of west africa

  • @michaellombard894
    @michaellombard894 2 года назад +1

    This was the first hip hop song I ever heard, 1979. What an absolute blast!

  • @_The_Journey
    @_The_Journey 3 года назад +5

    The full 14 minute version you gotta listen to someday too💯

  • @laticiadavis8627
    @laticiadavis8627 3 года назад +64

    This song was made when disco was phasing out and rap was just beginning.FYI this was the first rap song to be recorded.

    • @madameclark3453
      @madameclark3453 3 года назад +10

      Not the first but the first hit

    • @MVK123
      @MVK123 3 года назад

      And the first of many rap songs to heavily sample other songs. Honestly, too many rap songs just piggyback on others' creativity. The "Good Times" sample makes this track and they rightly got sued over it!

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 3 года назад

      @@MVK123 which hip hop artist wasnt sampling songs at this time? their mistake was not crediting chic and paying them royalties, when they released the record

    • @edwilkinson1086
      @edwilkinson1086 3 года назад +1

      King Tim III I believe is credited as the first rap song by the Fatback Band

    • @MVK123
      @MVK123 3 года назад +3

      @@thewkovacs316 That's my point, that there is such a lack of creativity, too much piggybacking across the whole genre

  • @robind.phillips2129
    @robind.phillips2129 3 года назад +36

    They paid dearly for that funky beat from Nile Rodgers. Chic "Good Times"

    • @MVK123
      @MVK123 3 года назад +4

      And rightly so, that stolen sample makes the song

  • @raineyj560
    @raineyj560 3 года назад +3

    My childhood, from my home borough, The Bronx aka The BX. Glad yall enjoyed it ❤

  • @Damoor
    @Damoor 3 года назад +3

    We ABSOLUTELY wore tight clothes in this era (the 70’s). The only Levi’s were the OG shrink-to-fit 501’s. We took them straight out the bag to the washing machine, washed them on hot, then dried them in high heat, to shrink ‘em & fade ‘em.
    The rappers in the 80’s brought us the baggy look. It was a reaction to the tight clothes of the 70’s Disco era.

  • @checkmate778
    @checkmate778 3 года назад +16

    Gangster's Paradise!!!!!! Great song and great 90's rap

    • @paulstares48
      @paulstares48 3 года назад

      Thats sampled from pastime paradise by stevie wonder. Its from one of the best albums of the 70's. Songs in the key of life. Its Epic

  • @pthesmith
    @pthesmith 3 года назад +31

    THIS is the beginning of rap music. This is HISTORY.

    • @vh6307
      @vh6307 3 года назад +2

      Not just history.... ICONIC & LEGENDARY!!!🤩🙋🏾‍♀️👊🏾

  • @knoxrichman9239
    @knoxrichman9239 3 года назад +5

    Yo... to my young heads... we was tight wearin in the mid 80's... we didn't really start to loosen up the apparel until about 87... bt now y'all back tight again... times will always resurface.. eventually y'all are gonna get tired of being tight and go back to baggy.. I'm sure of it..

  • @DrStephanieMillerWilliams
    @DrStephanieMillerWilliams 3 года назад +3

    The song sample that they are rapping to is called “Good Times” by Chic 😊