Finally! I’m 57 and can’t remember where I put my keys earlier today but can remember these lyrics.....
@monicamad12853 жыл бұрын
Same here, I'm 55!! 😂😂
@brigitter14693 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha same age and never forgot these words lol
@deanarjones91143 жыл бұрын
Me too at 54. Our nursing homes are going to be fun 😂
@annmills31633 жыл бұрын
Word! Lol
@laurakali65223 жыл бұрын
@@deanarjones9114 we need modern day Golden Girls retirement homes!
@MuckoMan3 жыл бұрын
Used to roller skate to this when it first came out. When rap was fun and brought us together.
@ChrisS.WyoBraska3 жыл бұрын
I miss skating to this music, but it was already a classic in the 90s when i would skate to it
@colint563 жыл бұрын
Top comment! it really did bring people together! the first rap record to chart in the UK and rightly so, it'll still fill a dancefloor in 2021
@fmm23393 жыл бұрын
💯
@baileybowman24493 жыл бұрын
Everyone dashed to the floor to skate when this came on!
@paulamoya79562 жыл бұрын
Same⭐️🔥⭐️🔥✔️
@musemoon3 жыл бұрын
FUN FACT: "Rapper's Delight" is ranked #251 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is also included on NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. The song is also preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
@niviad44973 жыл бұрын
Kudos for sharing this “Fun Fact”, I love when people are this serious about music. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@musemoon3 жыл бұрын
@@niviad4497 Thanks so much, I appreciate that. ❤️
@colin723 жыл бұрын
What’s the difference between a fact and a fun fact?
@musemoon3 жыл бұрын
@@colin72 FUN FACT: "Forget sharks and snakes, mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal every year." Maybe that wasn't so fun...
@jadecawdellsmith40093 жыл бұрын
@@colin72 😂😂
@GinaGeeILuvu3 жыл бұрын
This was the first big rap song. They are sampling the song “Good Times” by Chic! Chic was not happy about it at the time and sued! Good Times was a huge Disco hit so they couldn’t go wrong! As a kid we love last part about the food!! We knew whole song! Good Times!😂❤️❤️
@kylebakke5943 жыл бұрын
Yes! If you do a reaction to the Chic song “Good Times” you’ll definitely recognize the base and strings sound. They didn’t even change it up a little for this song. But you can’t deny that this is a song that demands multiple replays.
@samanthahall3563 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!! We knew EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. to that part!! Some random person could start singing it in the mall, and 85% of the kids and people would start singing that part!! It was such a fun, connecting song. We need that now!
@kylebakke5943 жыл бұрын
Next recommended Sugar Hill Gang song: “Apache”
@briansredd3 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a sample or loop from Chic. The Sugar Hill House Band actually played "Good Times" note for note :)
@porflepopnecker43763 жыл бұрын
I love Chic.
@merittrayner53123 жыл бұрын
If you're doing old school, make sure to check out Grandmaster Flash - The Message
@holyspacemonkey3 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!
@jennhurl3 жыл бұрын
Definitely!!! 🔥
@adamsgrad933 жыл бұрын
I was just coming to say that! Yes, Grandmaster Flash is a must-hear.
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
Absolutely YES!!
@citizensforpauladdis34563 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@LizJasonHEA3 жыл бұрын
My 35-year-old niece knows every word to the song because my 62-year-old brother played it for her from the minute she was born, because it's one of his favorite songs. I still remember that whole last verse by heart because the chicken tastes like wood lol. This is the kind of rap music I enjoy. It's got the great beat and it's something you can dance to. It was played in the disco's back when I was still young and went out clubbing every weekend. I'm 66 years old this month & this song is still on my dance playlist. When the family gets together, the girls of all ages kick everybody out of the kitchen so we can have a kitchen dance party with a bottle of wine and our favorite music.b. Thiss is always on the playlist. Sugar Hill Gang are historical for a good reason.
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
RAPPERS DELIGHT was released in SEPT of 1979 ,, I WAS there loved it ,,70s were FANTASTIC
@bobblowhard88236 ай бұрын
I like wood.
@erogers49913 жыл бұрын
I graduated in ‘82. Trying to dance to the extended version was exhausting!! It is 14 minutes!! Great beat!!
@JenShea3 жыл бұрын
We had more energy then! LOL
@erogers49913 жыл бұрын
@@JenShea so true lol
@R.Williams3 жыл бұрын
Dancing to Meatloafs Paradise by the Dashboard light which is a little over 8 minutes was the test of endurance in my dancing days. It didn't have the beat this song has though. This would be a joy to dance to! I can barely walk fast for 8 minutes now, might less 14 minutes!
@tamyrajones95662 жыл бұрын
I was exhausted dancing to this lol
@jimcvca3 жыл бұрын
You're correct...this song brought everyone together. The rhymes are classic, nothing like you hear in today's rap. By the way, this is the shortened version of the song. For even more great rhyming, listen to the 15-minute version. I still remember all the words after all these years.
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
You've got a good memory. I still know most of them. ☮️
@JohnWilliams-bt9er3 жыл бұрын
This was big at the roller skating rink
@kathenavarro6850 Жыл бұрын
I still know the long version too!!
@myst2212 Жыл бұрын
@@justinbennitt835 he got the creds in the lyrics, it says "I'm the Grandmaster" and mentions his name in the lyrics multiple times so itsd enough x'D
@ffjsb3 жыл бұрын
This is the Granddaddy of ALL rap music, the song that brought rap to the world.
@lindas26063 жыл бұрын
The term “Hip Hop”, being used in today’s modern musical lexicon, started with this song. It’s historical. *Corrected for accuracy
@Docmananoff3 жыл бұрын
A little before that but it was the first time Hip Hop was said on a record.
@ronsandgren13 жыл бұрын
@@Docmananoff It wasn't the first time that hip hop was said in a song though it was first sung in a song from 1963 called You Can't Sit Down by the Dovells even though that wasn't a Hip Hop song and I believe that song's where other people later got the musical name from
@Docmananoff3 жыл бұрын
Ron Sandgren I’m not familiar with that song but the term Hip Hop as we all know today came from Keith Cowboy of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Maybe he knew the record you mentioned but his definition started as a joke to one of his friends that caught on so maybe that record said it but since Rappers Delight was the first official ‘rap’ record released, they said it first in this context. Because they overstepped all the originators of the genre that already had hip hop established on the street level first and put out a record before anyone else could.
@bgvan373 жыл бұрын
Cowboy from the furious 5 was the first rapper to say or coin the phrase hip hop in 1977
@marialamagra81473 жыл бұрын
Thats how the 70s were ,everyone got together and had fun .I miss those days I truly do..it was a beautiful experience and an honored to have been there to see it all..😊
@holyspacemonkey3 жыл бұрын
I can’t even put into words what it was like hearing this for the first time as a kid, having never heard anything even vaguely like it before. It was like a whole new universe of music opened up. I felt so energized! Like waking up when you didn’t know you were asleep!! 🔥
@breebarry44223 жыл бұрын
First time I heard it was on my purple Huffy bike. My Daddy got me a banana seat for it. I was a quiet child, but you couldn't tell me I wasn't the SHIT that day. I was stylin and profiling. Riding in circles at the block club summer party.
@jenniferfoster16923 жыл бұрын
Totally, it was amazing
@holyspacemonkey3 жыл бұрын
@@breebarry4422 I love that memory!!
@christinechin19093 жыл бұрын
Poetry 😊
@sallyramirez59803 жыл бұрын
17 years old, Warner's Theatre,, saw them. They blew the roof off the place. What a wonderful memory. ✌🦋
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
So cool, Sally! 💜☮️💜
@sallyramirez59803 жыл бұрын
@@cici7333 1980 Fresno California,, everyone and I mean everyone was moving. What a blast ✌
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
@@sallyramirez5980 😁
@tenhirankei3 жыл бұрын
Did they "blow the roof off the sucka" as Parliament would say/sing?
@m3li55a53 жыл бұрын
I love this old school style. When I was a kid, people used to just stand in a group and the ones who could do it would take turns freestyle rapping like this, making rhymes up on the spot. The rhymes were nonsense most of the time, but that was part of the fun 🤷🏻♀️😊
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
We had so much fun, didn't we?
@RastaSaiyaman3 жыл бұрын
The Bruno Mars song "Uptown funk" came from Morris Day and the Time's "Jungle love" look it up, that whole vibe, the lyrical content "I gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty!" is a line Morris Day would use and the dance in the music video is copied straight from the Time.
@v.j.30293 жыл бұрын
Yup, all he needs to do is check out Jungle Love to see how Bruno Mars is unoriginal. I've never been impressed by him, he just copies and recreates the sounds from the 80's.
@jenniferfoster16923 жыл бұрын
Morris Day and the Time were awesome, they had some great songs back in the day, written by Prince, of course :-) They were great performers
@sexysadie29013 жыл бұрын
@@v.j.3029 Lol, I like a couple of his songs precisely because he recreates the 80s.😂
@goldencherry90333 жыл бұрын
I believe there is also some Oops Upside Your Head in there, and the horn part is ripped from Michael Jackson’s ‘Jam’. It’s basically a mash up of about 7 much better songs🤷🏻♀️
@leisastalnaker37903 жыл бұрын
I remember when this came out along with Blondies Rapture. The first rap music in the 70’s.
@ENGBriseB3 жыл бұрын
Blondie's Rapture was the first hip hop song to use original music. Rather than Sampling other artists beats. She was the first white rapper of any gender.
@bestman2k9553 жыл бұрын
Rapper's Delight came out in 1979. Rapture came out two years later.
@bryanstarke29313 жыл бұрын
Grandmaster Flash "The Message" - DO IT !! 😉
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes, yes...The Message! 💜☮️💜
@fausty1503 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@terrirucker57923 жыл бұрын
Or fantastic voyage
@highheeledfagin3 жыл бұрын
Yup 👍🏽
@Jillyconjem3 жыл бұрын
Yes, please.
@megdelany56883 жыл бұрын
Please react to: Cameo: -Word Up -Thanks!!!
@rebeccarockchik67043 жыл бұрын
Word up! 😄
@randychampion1843 жыл бұрын
Candy as well
@zumbagirl65593 жыл бұрын
Yaas!
@kathenavarro68503 жыл бұрын
Loved word up!!
@adymode3 жыл бұрын
Word up is spectacular :)
@holyspacemonkey3 жыл бұрын
Raise your hand if you know every word, y’all! 👋
@ExotiicButter3 жыл бұрын
I'm 37 and know every word!
@destinidelmonico88543 жыл бұрын
🖐
@sylviafarese88373 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of those days, guys walking around with a boom box on their shoulder.
@bethshadid20873 жыл бұрын
And the street dancing and break dancing
@sylviafarese88373 жыл бұрын
@@bethshadid2087 Yes! My brothers and cousins and friends were doing that. It wasn’t until I saw them do it that I came to appreciate the skills one needs. Looked like fun.
@KrawnKam3 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqKso62hhamnqM0
@charleyanne3 жыл бұрын
Doing the double dutch to this song along with someone standing there holding the boom box is how I remember it!!
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
THE 70s invented HIP HOP ....AT least made it popular ,, . Thats right
@michaelkpate3 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to this in Middle School in 1980 - definitely the first rap song I ever heard.
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
YOU 1ST heard this in 1979 ,, When ever one else did , YOU THOUGHT IT WAS 80 LOL
@michaelkpate3 жыл бұрын
@@larryronkq586 I may have heard it in '79 but I distinctly remember listening to it in the school cafeteria in 1980.
@cherylsmith9053 жыл бұрын
Ahhh flashbacks of my teenage years at the skating rink lol
@bethshadid20873 жыл бұрын
Ikr. Everyone was out on the floor when this came on 😁
@cherylsmith9053 жыл бұрын
@@bethshadid2087 yea and about to fall out by the time it was over but would do it over and over....i am 56 now and I would have a heart attack no question about it lolol
@cici73333 жыл бұрын
@@cherylsmith905 Yes! I was 14 when this came out! So cool.
@charleyanne3 жыл бұрын
To the black, to the white, the red and the brown, the purple & yellow... I was just 10 years old when this came out & I was singing along to this & doing double dutch with the ropes...awww the memories!
@thelandofopie3 жыл бұрын
This was the roller skating jam, everybody on the floor! Didn’t understand then that this was big music history. It was so different, we just knew it felt like us.
@jenniferkasowicz94633 жыл бұрын
Another interesting fact: The Sugarhill Gang is named after a group of artists from Harlem. (Sorry, everyone... music history is fascinating to me!)
@R.Williams3 жыл бұрын
No need to apologize. Everyone here is interested in music and music history I'd guess!
@tickle746563 жыл бұрын
Samples the bass line of Chic - Good Times. Chic are the kings of disco
@mistateearuba3 жыл бұрын
Actually uses the whole instrumental
@oneilprovost22873 жыл бұрын
Niles Rodgers... finally in the RnR Hall of Fame
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
THE LITTLE BAND CALLED THE THE BEE GEES MAY HAVE TO SAY HOLD MY BEER LOL ,,
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
I WAS THERE , Both songs came out in the SUMMER OF 1979,, The 7 DEEZ Were FANTASTIC,,
@larryronkq5863 жыл бұрын
YEP another great song from 1979 ,,
@gahrie3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't get any more old school than this.
@sarahdixon19433 жыл бұрын
This is where the word "hip hop" came from. The line, " hop hop hibby to the.." .. People would go into the record stores and ask for " that hip hop song" .. This was the first "rap" we learned 😁😆😆 Your right, this song brought everyone together to enjoy. Everyone knows this jam. It's an absolute classic.
@pamcromer563 жыл бұрын
Watch the Wedding Singer, see the little grandma singing this 😂
@lindaflores33913 жыл бұрын
I saw that movie.That. part where the grandma was rapping to that song was hilarious.😂
@ursulaturner79803 жыл бұрын
I love the Wedding singer!!
@RalphMasielloArt3 жыл бұрын
Haha! The grandma was the best!
@scottlaughlin98973 жыл бұрын
Lmfao
@nickyblack32783 жыл бұрын
Haha. Yes!
@cathysousa19593 жыл бұрын
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five.. The Message🌊🍍🐟🐠🐳🐋🌺🏝🏄♀️🏖 Aloha Jay!
@skvarea57883 жыл бұрын
Notice how the rap back then had no Bitches or Hoes words in it?..JUST CLEAN. 🎧😁😁😍😍
@aaronward97003 жыл бұрын
That's how it should be 🙂
@skvarea57883 жыл бұрын
@@aaronward9700True!.. I cant stand listening to half of the filth they have today..Too much swearing in it..they need to wash their mouth out with soap! 😣
@vegasbaby36693 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed
@alrivers22973 жыл бұрын
Except for Superman's little worm and his super sperm, lol
@elisdee013 жыл бұрын
They had talent. Modern day music has neglected/ rob the youth of today real talent
@amitychief30613 жыл бұрын
Greatest line ever. "We don't like to brag, we don't like to boast, but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast."
@laurakali65223 жыл бұрын
“White Lines” next please......
@lisaodowd29773 жыл бұрын
Love Duran Durans version of White Lines
@sheb773 жыл бұрын
Yesssss!
@remedy96483 жыл бұрын
Definitely
@santellanr3 жыл бұрын
You need to do "Bust a move" by Young MC. Another classic.
@traherne67263 жыл бұрын
This song was massive ! We need more songs like this, to bring everyone together.
@shevawn19733 жыл бұрын
I heard this is where the name "Hip Hop" came from back in the Day.
@sassymessmess91103 жыл бұрын
Probably true.
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
I think that’s true!
@tawnyh88783 жыл бұрын
Hip Hop culture and Rap is a genre of hip-hop
@jdoe19883 жыл бұрын
Not quite. Wonder Mike has said that he heard it from a relative. Many say it was Keef Cowboy, one of the Furious Five (of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) who came up with the term in 1978. This song was however largely responsible for introducing the term to the masses/
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
@ted ritola give Jay a break, Ted! 🙄
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
Back when we could dance to rap! To the beat of Good Times by Chic! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💜💜💜
@bethshadid20873 жыл бұрын
And skate 💖
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
@ted ritola yes it did!
@APatriarca13 жыл бұрын
The music sampling is from Chic's 'Good Times'
@makeitmakesense55773 жыл бұрын
This was a Cypher long before they knew what a Cypher was! And they did it all without one cuss word! It was such an innocent time back them.
@johnfoster52953 жыл бұрын
I'm not really into rap music, but I always loved this song. It came out when I was in middle school. You need to listen to the full version (this was an edit). The full song is about 15 minutes long. I had the 12 inch single of this, and the long version was on side A and the short version was on side B.
@paulbakerma613 жыл бұрын
If you really want to go back to the beginning don’t miss out... The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel.
@Luxito_DeWarlock3 жыл бұрын
Oooh hell yeah!
@PrairieSummer3 жыл бұрын
I love how they're rapping with sweaters on. 😂 I LOVED early rap and hip hop - it was more melodic and so much fun.
@2715bunky3 жыл бұрын
I heard this the first time it was performed on the Merv Griffin show in like 1980.
@jeffbeck37703 жыл бұрын
Roller skating song. Must have heard it a million times back in the day.
@bearfeet19863 жыл бұрын
Yes! Classic! Watch “The wedding singer” when the grandma sings this!!!
@charleyanne3 жыл бұрын
Why don't I remember this, I'll have to watch it again just for this song!!
@gsmith13083 жыл бұрын
@@charleyanne You won't be disappointed!
@lisaannbarriner96333 жыл бұрын
I remember skating at the rink to this as a young teenager. So much fun. The background music was from Chic.
@katrienblomme48283 жыл бұрын
No colour doesn t matter! You should have seen us all dancing to this. Everybody knew the lyrics by heart (song on repeat)
@dawnmaroon4503 жыл бұрын
Jay, try “It Takes Two” by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
@juliac86893 жыл бұрын
Great song!
@rennnyyy3 жыл бұрын
And Joy and Pain
@guycarter66923 жыл бұрын
I remember being a boy when this came out. Every older cousin's house I would visit I would see that iconic album with the colorful "candy swirl" on it laying somewhere. I saw a documentary where they said that when this 1st came out, people were running to the record stores & asking "Do you have that Hip Hop song?" That's because they didn't know the name of it. Only the rift "I said a hip, hop, hippy to the hippy"....... Hence, the term "Hip Hop" was born.
@MelissaArvanitaki3 жыл бұрын
This song is a classic! Loved singing along this afternoon to it.
@cathycouch75793 жыл бұрын
Yes...we ALL new this song by heart and sung it at school, after school every chance! Good times!
@isabelsilva620233 жыл бұрын
Jayvee TV It is a solid 30 years now since I last danced to this.
@ZZ430T563 жыл бұрын
This has been sampled like a million times. These boys were from Englewood NJ, near where I grew up. Clubs started playin it and it took off.
@matmagix38453 жыл бұрын
Yes. Even the famous Ketchup song is loosely based off rappers delight. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d363Z2xudteGnLM From what I heard the chorus is what happens when the guy they talk about in the verses (probably on recreational drugs and alcohol at party) tries to sing his favorite song while intoxicated.
@bethshadid20873 жыл бұрын
Oh yes now we're jamming from 1979. This is such a great upbeat song. Probably the first mainstream hip hop/rap song. Great to skate to 💖
@sharkfinz63 жыл бұрын
this was THE song of its time--love this -brings back memories!
@davidcohen45363 жыл бұрын
The bass beat is the same as chic’s “good times”, both fantastic songs. My sons played this song continually for a sold year. This song was big back in the day.
@alrivers22973 жыл бұрын
Yup, they borrowed that base beat from Chic. So did Queen with Another One Bites the Dust
@Wesker19843 жыл бұрын
As people have mentioned, there's Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - The Message. Here's another couple of.old skool Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - White Lines (anti drugs message (Cocaine in particular, it was rife in the 80s)) Run DMC - It's Like That (the original version is old skool, they did a remake in 1998 with Jason Nevins)
@neil19023 жыл бұрын
This is the real rap i love, constant rhyme and joyful.... one of the first and still the best.
@virginiaaguilar36483 жыл бұрын
Listen to #1 rap song EVER named The Message
@jamesallen55913 жыл бұрын
I feel like I'm late, but I'm not that late. However I do feel old. Because I am old.
@OhJodi693 жыл бұрын
Thanks to this song, my dad FINALLY bought me headphones! And I didn't even have to wait until my birthday, LOL I was nine years old. And KUDOS to my dad for not throwing away the record, instead.
@josephcote61203 жыл бұрын
Maybe in the same style is Kurtis Blow's "Basketball." Just fun and catchy.
@gness47823 жыл бұрын
No, no. From Kurtis it's got to be 'The Breaks'
@JenShea3 жыл бұрын
You have to listen to Kurtis’ collection. Back in the early 80’s he was the king... now he’s the grandfather of hip hop/rap.
@porttack85743 жыл бұрын
Everyone knew the words to this song. It was crazy.
@suem60043 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Saw where it started. We white kids owned the 12” album. Knew it all by heart. I think this was the ‘short’ version. Someone correct me. One side had the short version and the other the long version.
@jaydubbxperiod3 жыл бұрын
No need to correct. This was indeed the short version. The full length is way longer.
@christinegelabert16513 жыл бұрын
@Salem Yes...the full OFFICIAL version of this song is 15 minutes~the short RADIO release version is what he played here.
@garryiglesias40743 жыл бұрын
Gran Master Flash: The message... Herbie Hancock: rock it!
@janethernandez7243 жыл бұрын
Oh yes! Love those too! I second that!
@lolalilolily3 жыл бұрын
Yes the message must be heard
@strasbourgerelsass14673 жыл бұрын
Little problem: Rockit is no rap. ;)
@garryiglesias40743 жыл бұрын
@@strasbourgerelsass1467 It's Hip Hop. And yes, Herbie is a jazz musician but that's not the point. It's not a "rap channel" either here. Mais t'es de Strasbourg ?
@labelladonna80993 жыл бұрын
My son and I were dancing to this when he was only 8 (he’s 48 now), and we are still loving it after all these years. A great song that really brought people together! Should go down in our country’s history. Thanks for your lovely reaction. The smile never left your face or mine! 😊
@mmomailman3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I have been waiting for someone to react to this song forever, but especially you Jay! Thank You! Great reaction once again!
@myndall_3 жыл бұрын
My first rap was Nucleus: Jam On Revenge cassette tape. Wikki-wikki-wikki-wikki
@paulaKaa3 жыл бұрын
"Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Melle Mel - White lines", "Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals" or "Kurtis Blow - The breaks"😁
@kemitamenophis32213 жыл бұрын
I lived in Manhattan for six months two years before this joint was released. One afternoon, I was walking through Central Park when all of a sudden two vans pulled up, plugged their equipment into the public light posts and put on a block party in the Park. If was Kool Herc and his crew from the Bronx! My first introduction to Hip Hop. In minutes, there was a huge crowd! They had all of the elements: Turntables, MC's, B Boys, Break Dancers, Beat Boxers, Graffiti Artists.
@christinegelabert16513 жыл бұрын
You gotta LOVE NYC cuz it csn be party time at any moment IF everybody commits to the party plan yk? #IamBrooklynBorn #StrongIslandRaised #NativeNewYorkerBaby #PartyDownNYCEveryWkend
@jenniferwilliams4517Ай бұрын
That's funny, my first real exposure to rap music was in Manhattan too, by Broadwy and Houston, a box truck was parked and a little crowd came around, it was the first time "I could hear the words" as it was performed right there on the truck, and the beat was jumping, but this was later, maybe like 1990.
@etherreal53473 жыл бұрын
Loved this and loved the 70's music scene, there were no barriers, it was all about having fun.
@eloisapompa50483 жыл бұрын
Since you're going this route, How about reacting to Fantastic Voyage by Lakeside. I think you'll like that one too. Great reaction to an iconic song. Rapper's Delight is my son's favorite song to sing with his DJ friend at karaoke. Everyone knows the words. Btw, that shirt and the colors looks really good on you.
@judithwalton15233 жыл бұрын
Oooh haven't heard fantastic voyage for years....am off to dig out the album....now that's showing my age 😂😂
@vickinewby4083 жыл бұрын
When I tried out for the pompom squad in 1981, we used Fantastic Voyage for it!
@scoob2153 жыл бұрын
I promise you won't regret reacting to Grandmaster Flash "White Lines" or "The Message" next.
@jennhurl3 жыл бұрын
1979!! Rap was FUN!! I LOVED THIS 👇😍 I said a hip hop, The hippie to the hippie The hip hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it To the bang bang boogie, say up jump the boogie, To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.
@magovenor3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the track from “Good Times”. As for the mixed crowd, it was a television dance program.
@marcovignologargini62423 жыл бұрын
This is the dawn of the rap, then, after Sugarhill, Kurtis Blow ("The breaks") and others rappers like Superwolf. The first rap in Europe was Italian, Pino D'Angiò "Che idea".
@marcovignologargini62423 жыл бұрын
@Alfons Garriga if so Celentano was the first in the world, in 1973 :)
@alangriggs63553 жыл бұрын
I have to say I can't stand rap but this one I bought when it came out and still enjoy
@MsAppassionata3 жыл бұрын
I prefer old school rap like this.
@richerDiLefto3 жыл бұрын
@@nancygianina2858 I remember reading somewhere that Will Smith missed the old, fun rap too and that he was embarrassed to listen to the raunchy new kind with his girlfriend around.
@rb70073 жыл бұрын
This was either 1979 or 1980 and I was 14 years old! I actually recorded the song and wrote down all the lyrics,...(had to keep rewinding it). But I STILL remember most of the lyrics today! 😂
@vendelayindustries3 жыл бұрын
This and Grandmaster Flash & The furious five's "The message" are hip hop history. Two HUGE classics.
@glamourisbest3 жыл бұрын
Run Dmc It’s Tricky, Walk this way, Rock Box and Heavy D- We Got our own thang.
@wboyd43303 жыл бұрын
I can't remember what I did yesterday, but I know all the words to this 😂
@jojones10823 жыл бұрын
This takes me back to my high school day...I have always thought that they ended the song too soon. It has such a great tempo and flow and it was the first time I had ever heard of rap and it's one of my all time favorite songs.
@StatsJedi3 жыл бұрын
1980, I was in college, and everyone got into this. Now I am so sick of rap crap. This was gold.
@TheBohemianAngels3 жыл бұрын
Much and way better than the so called Rap of today. Back then they had music and rhythm, no longer, just people talking with an auto drum machine.
@bobbyboko63173 жыл бұрын
My very thoughts
@holyspacemonkey3 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSS!! Ok now you gotta go back even farther and check out “Here Come the Judge” by Pigmeat Markham from 1968! That is the first rap I know of! It has a great beat and it’s funny too!
@louhillen82542 жыл бұрын
I bought the 12” single when it came out! They did borrow that baseline from Chic’s Good Times - Nile Rodgers walked into a club & heard Rappers Delight & went WOAH! THATS MY SONG! 😁
@68pointbreak3 жыл бұрын
I heard this song hundreds of time. Even at my summer camp we sang this song every night at camp fire. After 40 years I still remember all the words to this song
@jennhurl3 жыл бұрын
Watch "The Wedding Singer"!!! Its all 80's music!! Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler The Grandma sings this 😂🤣😂
@TNT-dp2jq3 жыл бұрын
Brings me back to my elementary school days
@Mr54nomore3 жыл бұрын
This was the first rap song that went platinum...1980 was the start of a new kind of music genre [Rap & Hip Hop]. Music will never be the same again...And the "Sugar Hill Gang " started it all. Priceless! Great Post!.
@landosmith19743 жыл бұрын
😂😂 As a 46 year old, I remember listening to this on my dads vinyl. EVERY DAY!! I learnt the lyrics off by heart within days!! I’d ride my BMX everywhere with my headphones hooked into my portable cassette-player listening to this as loud as I could......a HUGE GRIN on my face........😂😂😂👍👍👍
@RichieG3 жыл бұрын
You've heard samples from this song a thousand times, back before there were sampling laws. In fact, the bass line was stolen from yet an earlier song. Blondie sampled it, as did so many more. www.songfacts.com/facts/the-sugarhill-gang/rappers-delight
@steveparker36523 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for your discover 80's old School Rap, especially The Fat Boys!
@dard46423 жыл бұрын
I was 8 when this came out. I lived in Houston and, for the first week it was released, you could turn through all the radio stations in town and you could always find it playing. When the song ended, you can flip through the stations and you would find it halfway finished on another station. You would listen to it until it ended, flip through and find it just starting on another station. It was amazing. My dad bought this 12" for me, mainly so he could listen to it -- and he only listened to country music.
@StevenC327 ай бұрын
I was in the 11th grade when this song came out, so I was around when it first started. As a High School Junior back in the late 70s, we would play this song over and over. We loved the beat back then as well as the story being told.
@Day0One3 жыл бұрын
This is like the very first rap that ever came out. If not then is the second rap...
@christinegelabert16513 жыл бұрын
It is the FIRST rap, tryst us ild folks who danced to it in 1979 baby. Yeah not just to the radio version but even to the ORIGINAL 15 MINUTE version of this song. ❤😉❤😎❤😁❤🤘❤
@missgmoma3 жыл бұрын
Yes, old school rap! They bringing the beat too 🔥
@recashabbazz14143 жыл бұрын
The first rap song ever on mainstream...I'll never forget where I was when I heard it....I fell in love with Hip Hop!!!! The 70's
@steviej307215 күн бұрын
I want to put this song into historical context. In Philly, this was the first rap song that hit our air waves. We were amazed at what we heard. And the thing that caught my attention immediately with this song was this, regardless of your reading and writing level, guys were getting note books and writing down the lyrics of this song! Then we were rapping this song all night. This was a game changer and the beginning of commercial rap.
@niviad44973 жыл бұрын
Can you make up “Queen” x “Another One Bites The Dust”⁉️ 😚
@gwillis013 жыл бұрын
Another vote for listening to "Another One Bites The Dust"