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"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang, and while it is neither the first hip hop single nor the first successful single of the genre, "Rapper's Delight" is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song is ranked #248 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In late 1979, Debbie Harry suggested that Nile Rodgers join her and Chris Stein at a Hip Hop event, which at the time was a communal space taken over by young kids and teenagers with boom box's stereos, which would play various pieces of music that performers would break dance to. The main piece of music they would use was the break section of Chic's "Good Times," which Harry wanted Rogers to appreciate. Rogers experienced this event the first time himself at a High School in the Bronx. A few weeks later, Blondie, The Clash and Chic were playing a gig in New York at Bonds nightclub. When Chic started playing "Good Times" then rapper Fab Five Freddy and what were the members of the Sugarhill Gang jumped up on stage and started free styling with the band - Chic joined in and let them as Rogers puts it "do their improvisation thing like poets, much like I would playing guitar with Prince." A few weeks later Rogers was on the dance floor of New York club LaViticus and suddenly heard the DJ play a song which opened with Edwards bass line from Good Times. Rogers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought the song that day in Harlem. The song turned out to be an early version of "Rapper's Delight," which Rogers noted also included a scratched version of the songs string section. Rogers and Edwards threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in them being credited as co-writers. It was the first Top 40 song to be available only as a 12-inch extended version in the U.S. — no 7-inch, 45-RPM record was made. In Europe, however, it was released on the classic 7-inch single format, with a shorter version of the song.This however is the real shit LIKE WHAT U HEARD? SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WILL FOR MORE EXCELLENT MUSIC