The Sugarhill Gang

hip hop, Hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it to the bang, bang boogie, say you jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.” “Rapper’s Delight” is a song recorded in 1979 by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. It was the original 12-inch single was 15 minutes of undeniable urban-playboy bragging. While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around

While many rappers were able to make money on the new movement the majority of that money did not go into fixing up and nourishing the black community. This is evident in the music videos and song lyrics that brag about spending money on luxurious items, drugs, alcohol, and women instead of things that actually bolster the community. Yes, it is both unrealistic and unfair to put hip-hop on a pedestal and assume that it would completely reform the economy of a community, but its influence was -and

Stories within Music Flash fiction can take on many different forms and structures. The type of material used and the way it is used can vary exceedingly or in the slightest way. Using media, such as music, can help make the story relevant towards the reader, and also help guide the author in his or her particular direction. As mentioned earlier, the way outside resources gets used can vary as seen in both Touré “I Shot the Sheriff” and Chris L. Terry “At Home with Rapper’s Delight”. Although both

innocent boy who enjoyed playing football, swimming in the streams, and even started a rap and dance group with his friends and older brother. The group discovered their love for rap music from old cassette tapes of O.P.P, Run D.M.C, and the Sugarhill Gang. Ishmael and Junior, along with their other friends cherished these few hip hop and rap cassette tapes. Ishmael constantly carried these couple tapes on him at all times. They choreographed dance routines and memorized all of the lyrics. The

In his short overview of the origination of the Sugar Hill Gang in the mid 1970’s, the author makes it apparent the hip-hop grew out of necessity due to lack of funding in the art programs in New York City school system. This neoclassical movement of the mid 1970’s grew like a wildflower that sprouts through the

with its subculture and popularity in urban areas, its styles of evolving, the introduction of hip hop and rap to the public, the depiction it gave off with its criticisms from outsiders. An evaluation of hip hop artists songs by Sugar Hill and the Gang, Run DMC, Queen Latifah, and N.W.A. Including lyrics from the songs “Rappers Delight”, “King of Rock”, “Latifah’s Law”, and “Niggaz4Life”. In the conclusion it exposes how hip hop music is clearly for black Americans to express themselves freely

To an entire segment of the Black religious community, Gospel (Christian) Rap has found its way to the footsteps of the church. The rapid emergence of this music and its subculture has left the church and clergy alike asking the question-- why? Especially since much of what I would call secular Rap is "off the hook" these days. How so, do you ask? There is a surplus of gratuitous violence, and sexually explicit Rap lyrics, that currently ride the airwaves and is uploaded into countless IPODs

Hip hop is widely know as a genre of music that started in a New York City borough called the Bronx in the late 1970s, but it is more than just the music. Hip hop is a culture that consists of being a disc jockey which is also known as deejaying or turntabling, MCing or rhyming “rapping”, graffiti, fashion, and breakdancing. Hip hop was mostly an underground culture only know to the people living in the Bronx. Hip hop is a relatively new culture which fascinates most people because it of its somewhat

Difference between Rap and Hip Hop Rap is one of the pieces that begins Hip Hop, but Rap and Hip Hop were put together in the same environment that end up making an art evolution. Hip Hop is the music that backs up Rap (“Hip Hop”). Hip Hop and Rap begin in Bronx, New York on August 11, 1973.They were discover by DJ Kool Herc (Mize). The DJs that play the rhythmic music at parties or clubs made the rappers or MCs important and which became known as Hip Hop (The Social Significance…). Although

The History of Rap Rap music has been around since slaves worked the fields. Rap music is a form of music where a story is told through singing. Although rap has been around since slaves worked in the fields, the lyrics have changed, the focus of the songs have grown deeper in meaning, and rappers have rapidly changed over the years, causing this genre of music to grow in popularity all over the world. Rappers have evolved over the years, managing to create more complex songs and have complex background