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.
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!
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.
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 - th-cam.com/video/PobrSpMwKk4/w-d-xo.html
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.
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.
@@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.
"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. 💓💓💘❣
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!! ✌️💗😊
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.
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).
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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?
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
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!!
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.
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 😂
I was 12 years old bopping Rappers Delight...The beginnings of rap. .40 years later and I still know all the words. #skiddlybeebopwerockscoobydooguesswhatamericaweloveyou
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.
@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.
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
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!
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!!!
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.
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
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
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!!
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,
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 TH-cam-
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.
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.
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
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!
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...
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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!
This song brings back so many memories just like Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith, both while doing the double dutch with jump ropes & someone holding the boom box... those were the days!!
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😂❤️
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.
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
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.
Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in NYC, part of Harlem. Take the A train to get there (you can react to that song too - Duke Ellington / Ella Fitzgerald).
@@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!
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!
@@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
Wesley Snipes starred in the Spike Lee movie ”Sugar Hill”, which featured a song of the same name on the soundtrack, I believe by AZ-. Many of the Black poets, thinkers, jazz artists, and prominent figures during the Harlem Rennaisance lived in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. An area that had some of the most prominent Black society figures and beautifully built brownstones of the time, was transformed after COINTELPRO and the crack era as is portrayed by some characters in the movie.
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...
No it's not. The term hip hop was started by Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins from Grand Master Flash And The Furious Five back in 1978, one year before Rappers Delight.
@@seanjohnson7367 Ok, ok! I'm a 61 year old white guy! But, I remember when Rapper's Delight came out and everyone wanted to know what that "Hip Hop, Hippy to da hop" song was. Rapper's delight popularized the term for sure! We can all agree it was groundbreaking and badass!
Afrika Bambata coined the term Hip Hop and all of Big Bank Hanks rhymes were written by Grand Master Caz. Hip Hop started in the Bronx not Harlem/Sugar Hill.
@@traceythompson1092 He coined the term in 1982, AFTER this song. And yes, the Sugarhill Gang ripped off Grandmaster Caz and were not the first rap group.
The term hip hop did not come from this song at all. Wow wow wow it did not Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been credited with coining the term in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army by scat singing the made-up words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. Facts💯
Funny thing is I can find info on the web that points to all these suggestions and others. The FACT is things like this are usually being investigated and names being coined buy several people at the same time in different areas. There are plenty of historical examples. Its safe to say the word hip hop almost surely was coined in NYC.
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Gotta love all us middle aged people who can recall all the lyrics but can’t remember where we placed our keys........
Yes! 😂🤣
Truth!
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FACTS 🤣🤣🤣
1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" was the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Totally remember this. I was in 9th grade!!
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.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furuis Five "Beat Street Break Down"
Drunk History on Comedy Central did a episode on this song
And still the greatest rap song ever!!!
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!
Same in central Illinois shout out Decatur Illinois skaters love you guys learning my teenage jams
Yup! I am 50,and I still remember dropping everything to skate when it came on.
I can even smell the skating rink at this minute!
You're absolutely correct
Yes, best skating song.
In the hip hop Bible, page 1 starts "In the beginning, there was the Sugar Hill Gang."
🤣😂😂😂🤣😂💥😂💥😂💥🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂💥(edit) Joe that "bible" is some funny stuff
Preach.
In the beginning, there was Kool Herc...
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.
No it doesn’t obviously you don’t know hip hop because it started in 1973 with DJ Kool Herc not sugar hill gang
Sugarhill is in Harlem. My parents lived there and that was my first home.
And this young men was the first rap jam.
The movie Sugar Hill (Wesley Snipes) was a good one.
@@dee_pendable1, that movie was excellent!
Thanks for educating the young Indian brothers on historic Sugar Hill
Great jam for roller skating ♥️
According to Duke Ellington, you must take the A train to go to Sugar Hill up in Harlem.
THIS SONG LAUNCHED A MUSICAL REVOLUTION.
YES, IT DID!
This was not the first rap or hip hop song so it didant
This where "rap" originated. They were the first. Everybody was singing this word for word! Man, such a great time to be alive...
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.
Exactly, happy days
I'm from NY and everyone in the hood was rapping males and females
And no foul language!!!!! We could sing it at school!!!!
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.
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!
Ha...I just said the same thing! I was also 14 when Rapper’s Delight was on the radio!
SAME HERE ,👵 I WAS 16 WHEN I HEARD THIS 🔥 OLD SKOOL JAM , & I USE 🧊 ⛸️ ⛸️ TO THIS 🎶 🙌🙌
Me too! 👵
I got you beat. I was 11. :)
Same here! I too was 14 when I first heard this song! I still love listening to it too!
This was IT. All the 50-year-olds here know all the words. Takes me back!
52 yr old white lady... checking in!! 🤣
Another 52 year old over here.
51 year old here lol
@@jodiemaxwell375 47 white lady here lol. Loved this
ALL THE WORDS. THE EXTENDED VERSION, AND NOT THAT RADIO EDIT!!!
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 😍
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 - th-cam.com/video/PobrSpMwKk4/w-d-xo.html
@@marian.jablonski54 ya...that's why these guys need to check out grandmaster flash
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.
Omg, Apache! Yes! I had that 45 when I was in preschool. 😄
Apache is absolutely EPIC!!
@@coachhumph5524 hands down
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.
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.
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!!!
I’m 32 tell your daughter .. no excuses!!! Lol this the only time I hear mom rap
This IS the original! Introduced rap to everyone. Sugarhill is in NYC. Learn the song and impress your friends.
lol, fact!
I thought Rapture by Blondie was the first rap song
@@jellybathwater Now you confuse me, dunno if there is such song or did you wordplay with "rap"ture? ☻
@@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.
Still know every word. Just classic!!
"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. 💓💓💘❣
Hey nah!!🙋🏾♀️🤗
I ditto , that lol
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.
Curtis Blow The Breaks
I moved to LA from NJ in 1989 and was so sad about music in LA until I found KDAY
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!
This song didn’t invent rap but kicked off the golden era of hip hop.
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!
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.
@@roger1296 I 100% agree
Preach❤❤❤👊
I agree !
Seeing Tim & Fred throw their hands up and jam to the first rap song ever literally made me smile so much my face hurts. 🤣❤🎵✌
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!!
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"If your girl starts acting up....."
Say What!?!?!?!?
@@cainsolo1 than you take her friend...
Me too! 🤣
This was THE SH!T at the skating rink....LOL
I USE TO 🧊 ⛸️ ⛸️ 🙌🙌 TO THIS OLD SKOOL 🔥🔥 JAM
I think we all skated to this in the uk
Oh definitely!!
Skate City
Yeppers... And I can still sing it word for word
"Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn. If your girl start acting up, then you take her friend." Sa'weet!!! R.I.P. Big Bank Hank.
Brilliant, The Message by grandmaster Flash also brilliant 😉👍
Uh Master Gee, my mellow?
It's on you so what you gonna do?... 🎤🤣
@@kennyphillips6281 well it's on and and on and on on and on, the beat don't stop until the break of dawn 🎤
@@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 🎤🤣
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.
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).
Nile!!!
Nile’s Good Times riff
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.
@@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!
Hamilton Heights*
Frankie Smith: "Double Dutch Bus" (1981)
Yesssss!! I've requested this one before too!
De double de dutch!! Love thst one!😊
You got that right!
I LOVE this song!! “I’ve got bad feet. My corns hurt” lol.
Yeeeeeessssss!
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.
The full song is 14 minutes of pure freestyling goodness...
Yes 🤗
I have it on vinyl!
Sadly Hank jacked/borrowed the lyrics from Grandmaster Caz
@@annmitchell1707I do too! The LP!🙂
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!!
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.
growing up we all knew these lyrics, I'm now 53 and still know them by heart!! Loved their reaction
@@GranFelicia yes! I'm 55, and I do too. Fun times.
@@cici7333 I am 56 and remembered the verses. I loved the14 min long version of the song as well.
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.
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?
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
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.
I agree completely
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!!
Yea! Got to listen to the whole song.
Yes!!Many chopped , shortened versions on TH-cam..
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.
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 😂
Oh .... you bet !!!
I do & I was . I can sing along with the long version too, but I like the short version best.
I was 12 years old bopping Rappers Delight...The beginnings of rap. .40 years later and I still know all the words. #skiddlybeebopwerockscoobydooguesswhatamericaweloveyou
Fred’s normally chill, but this is the most he’s ever bopped along to a banger. Great to see both guys enjoying it!
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
This song was the start of rap in 1979. The music they rapped to was, Good Times by Chic. I love it!
Everybody Dance & Le Freak!! Timeless!! These nice young men should check them out!! Chic!! 💖
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message"
Yessssssss
OMG!! That song is a blast of the past!! I forgot about Grandmaster Flash!! Great song...!! 😀👍
Yes please react to The Message
That's the best rap song ever
This song put rap on the map. Took it from local to national.
INDEED 👊🏾
From Harlem and the Bronx, a gift to the entire world 👊
This is the first Rap Song recorded, the start of Rap Music.
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.
@@2apocalypse-X I think rappers delight was the first rap song to chart.
@@Bigshlongdinglidong it was the first to hit top 40
...and let's not forget "Funk You Up" by The Sequence right around that time. Female rappers...
@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.
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
I'm 54 that was our song in tbe day. I sang every word
It was everything. I am 54 as well.
52 and can still sing every word...lol
Me too. Age 47.
52 and yes can sing every word
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-
P.s. They"didn't know the song" THIS IS the song. It was the first
First hip hop I heard at the skating rink.... late 70's
The day I fell in love with hip hop.
@@2869may FOR AND THE CREW I RAN WITH IT WAS THE ICE RINK.
@@chefpfunk1 So you were a little more chillin.... lol
This song is an American classic, so much that they stole the lyrics.
Man, you just heard the godfathers and creators of hip hop. This song started it all.
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!
@@a.c.6475 That was excellent. Thanks for the info. Now, you have to correct the other 100K people who believe this.
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!
Was the Sh!t at the skating rink.... Everyone on the floor..!
You have a treasure of an LP!
#TalkinBoutOurGeneration
@@MarisolLopez-hp7go I know. I'll will that thing to my children. I purchased it with my own little teenage money. 👏🏾
I find it hard to believe they've never heard this before
At 56, I still have mine somewhere too!!!!!
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!!!
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.
That was always my favorite verse!!
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!
Yup....the TIMELESS INFINITE 70s & 80's..........S. I. G. H......!!! ☺️🤗🙋🏾♀️
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
Great time at the skating rink, Rapper’s Delight was the best to skate to!
Cool beans, thanks for the share! 👍☺️✌️
100%
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
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!!
"Wild Cherry" made "Play that funky music"
Love the song "Play that Funky Music!!"
THIS SONG IS EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻
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,
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 TH-cam-
Not the first ever rap
However, it’s the very first rap to be get high sale aka to the mainstream
Yes there are two versions
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.
What he said! I hope they listen to Good Times as well at some point. 🙌
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.
Kool Herc!
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
Yay!!! Finally!! These guys were on the cusp between disco and rap!! Thank you so much!! This is rap roots, guys!!😄✌️💙
Yes it is
This was at the tailend of the disco era, so yeah everybody wore tight clothes lol. Tight polyester bell bottome lol
Yes omh bell bottoms
The Show by Doug E Fresh, it might be hard to find but it's awesome!!
YES!!
oh Oh OH MY GOD....
It isn't hard to find. It's right here on TH-cam.
This x1000000. The Show is the way to start off any party.
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!
I remember having this album and roller skating to this song!
The beat is sampled from the song "Good Times" by the band Chic. You should check that one out too. It's another classic.
yes, I was singing along... we are the good times!
It’s slowed down by a half note, as anyone who learnt to play it on the bass guitar will tell you
I screamed noo that this is your 1st time hearing this.
This'll be a treat.
And it was. 🔥🙌
@@ChrisBennettGameDesign .....Yes Lawd!!!
Yeah... it's funny when these "youngins" are hearing for the first time songs I have been listening to practically all my life. 🙄 🎼 📼 💿
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...
Try Grand Master Flash: The Message, White Lines.
White Lines!
The Message!!!!!!
The message please react to the message
Double Dutch Bus!!!
Beat street breakdown. Yo check it
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
Actually, King Tim III (Personality Jock), by Bill Curtis and the Fatback Band came first just a few months before Rappers Delight.
And I was listening to this song in the 70’s.
Come on, they’re not the GOATs of anything. One of the MCs stole his verse line for line from another rapper.
They missed that part:
"If your girl starts acting up... then you take her friend..."
Haha I noticed that
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.
Macaroni soggy the peas are mush and the chicken taste like wood
Peas are musty
KAY
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PEC
TATE
Their performance of “Apache” should be your next Sugarhill Gang experience. Its a Native American-centered rap that really grooves!
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.
@@indirussell7083 I'm 60 years old and wear my “rap head” badge with pride!
@@MikeJohnson-hp8lr 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
@@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.
@@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.
The group and the record company were named after the Sugar Hill, Harlem, neighborhood in New York City.
This song was, is, and always has been a straight bop
If you haven't heard Rapture by Blondie yet you absolutely should! Fun, early days of rap.
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!
That's what I'm saying check it out
www.songfacts.com/facts/blondie/rapture
Dee-lite, Groove is in the Heart, blends different tones.
This song brings back so many memories just like Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith, both while doing the double dutch with jump ropes & someone holding the boom box... those were the days!!
I love Double Dutch Bus.
This was the bomb back in the day... I hope you will do the Message by Grandmaster Flash... It is really real.
Yes, this is a must to hear.
White lines as well
They have already done that one.
😊😊
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😂❤️
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.
Thank you for making that distinction.
Not really this was the first main stream but rap has been around since the 50s and guys like James brown influenced rap
@@todd6805 rap has been around since the ancient days in Africa
Specifically the griots of west africa
I love this song! That and when granny raps it in "The Wedding Singer", classic song!
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.
Gangster's Paradise!!!!!! Great song and great 90's rap
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
Oh, my! you need to hear Dougie Fresh "The Show." And Slick Rick "La Di Da Di"
Yes!!
6 minutes
6 minutes
6 minutes Dougie fresh your on
ah ah on ah ah on ah ah ah ah ah ah ah on
"The show" was the jam. I was a teen in 85. Really miss those days
Oh what great memories when it didn’t hurt everything to dance all night.
Children’s Story is my favorite.
I met Doug E Fresh a few years ago. Nicest guy, and he's definitely still got it!
A classic never dies. Believe it or not , this recording changed everything from that point on. Hard to imagine the impact it had.
Listen to the song "Good Times" by Chic.Sugar Hill Gang sampled Chic's instrumental music for "Rappers' Delight".
You can totally hear it in the background.
just posted the same thing!
Not a sample - it was a live band cover. Sampling tech wasn't available in '79. Just saying.
Good one! That is correct "Good Times" by Chic is the background dance beat to this song!
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
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.
"Hotel. Motel. HOLIDAY INN!" I love everything about this!
They sampled Chic's "Good Times" in this song
great song..!
@Anna Gonzalez Ahhhh....didn’t know that! Definitely his music!!
They sure did.
@Anna Gonzalez yes! I forgot about that! Big controversy, lol.
Illegally 😅
They paid dearly for that funky beat from Nile Rodgers. Chic "Good Times"
And rightly so, that stolen sample makes the song
Classic!! They pulled me onstage in the 90's to dance w/them! Good times.
THIS is the beginning of rap music. This is HISTORY.
Not just history.... ICONIC & LEGENDARY!!!🤩🙋🏾♀️👊🏾
Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in NYC, part of Harlem. Take the A train to get there (you can react to that song too - Duke Ellington / Ella Fitzgerald).
True, but these cats are from Jersey.
Those were the days - Kurtis Blow, Hamilton Bohannon, The Disco 4, The Treacherous Three, Captain Sky, Doctor Ice - the real pioneers of rap
Wow bringing me back with those names ..we love that basketball..
@@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!
This litterally the end of disco you can see their dtessed like they at the disco still.
I used to roller skate to this song!
Everyone on the floor....!
Me too
Thanks for watching this video. I just finished dancing and singing with every word! 🇨🇦💕
This song was made when disco was phasing out and rap was just beginning.FYI this was the first rap song to be recorded.
Not the first but the first hit
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!
@@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
King Tim III I believe is credited as the first rap song by the Fatback Band
@@thewkovacs316 That's my point, that there is such a lack of creativity, too much piggybacking across the whole genre
This is the Genesis of Rap. I love that you dig it!
I totally forgot that sometimes people then would refer to that type rap as "hippity-hop" music. Eventually cutting it down to hip-hop.
Sugar Hill is a Neighborhood in Harlem NY.
NY is a beautiful place with some beautiful people!
I've been to New York several times...I never knew Sugar Hill was a Harlem neighborhood. Thank you for educating us Black Butterfly. 🙄👍 💯
Wesley Snipes starred in the Spike Lee movie ”Sugar Hill”, which featured a song of the same name on the soundtrack, I believe by AZ-. Many of the Black poets, thinkers, jazz artists, and prominent figures during the Harlem Rennaisance lived in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. An area that had some of the most prominent Black society figures and beautifully built brownstones of the time, was transformed after COINTELPRO and the crack era as is portrayed by some characters in the movie.
@@EastCoastGal66 eh it’s alright
Was the jam back in the day!
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...
That's where the term Hip Hop started.
No it's not. The term hip hop was started by Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins from Grand Master Flash And The Furious Five back in 1978, one year before Rappers Delight.
@@2apocalypse-X
No sir. It was Luv Bug Starski who first coined the term 'Hip hop'
No, it was coined by Chubs O’Riley, a black-Irish OG from back in her day. Chubs was also a ship captain.
@@seanjohnson7367 Ok, ok! I'm a 61 year old white guy! But, I remember when
Rapper's Delight came out and everyone wanted to know what that "Hip Hop, Hippy to da hop" song was. Rapper's delight popularized the term for sure! We can all agree it was groundbreaking and badass!
@@jwavrider ...so am I...
You're not going to believe this. I wrote this one down today to request it. :)
Yep! Back in the day everything was tight.
FACT: The term "hip-hop" comes from the lyrics of this song.
Afrika Bambata coined the term Hip Hop and all of Big Bank Hanks rhymes were written by Grand Master Caz. Hip Hop started in the Bronx not Harlem/Sugar Hill.
@@traceythompson1092 He coined the term in 1982, AFTER this song. And yes, the Sugarhill Gang ripped off Grandmaster Caz and were not the first rap group.
The term hip hop did not come from this song at all. Wow wow wow it did not
Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been credited with coining the term in 1978 while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army by scat singing the made-up words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. Facts💯
Funny thing is I can find info on the web that points to all these suggestions and others. The FACT is things like this are usually being investigated and names being coined buy several people at the same time in different areas. There are plenty of historical examples. Its safe to say the word hip hop almost surely was coined in NYC.
The only song that mentions " Hot butter on your breakfast toast!"
Probably the only song that mentions: "Superman's a fairy I do suppose... Flying through the air wearing pantyhose..." 😀
No it's not. Roller rapper by Robby love does also.
This was another one of those songs I loved skating too. Glad y’all enjoyed it.
I love the song but I can’t help think of the “Wedding Singer” every time I hear it. LOL
and then her meatballs lol