The Controversial Rise Of Hip-Hop's First Record Label

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Hip-hop's first record label was Sugar Hill Records, founded in 1979. The label's first release was the single "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. This single is credited with helping to popularize hip-hop and rap music, and is considered one of the first commercially successful hip-hop songs.
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[@taytro.3194]

man you've been dropping good content consistently. respect

[@capcitymediagroup831]

Syvia was good in the music but bad on the business side she had a label prior to Sugar Hill Records called All Platinum Records/Stang Records. The end of the that label coensided with the creation of Sugar Hill......she was iconic with starting the label for hip hop and responsible for the main stream success of hip hop the first to invest in it the first with the hit etc. Side note Morris Levy was mob affiliated and was the one who screwed Frankie Lymon's out of his royalties told in the movie 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love'

[@kincamell]

Artists on Brunswick and Dakar got mistreated as well. I heard Jackie Wilson got hung over a balcony and one of the Chi lites got assaulted just for asking about some money he was owed. Ps AllMusic described him as "a notorious crook who swindled artists out of their owed royalties." Levy falsely took writing credit in order to receive royalties-

[@capcitymediagroup831]

@@kincamell Brunswick was horrible

[@omardavis1622]

She definitely could been Def Jam before Def Jam had she went with the times & kept signing , or at least link up with Russell Simmons & Mr. Magic

[@itsmarsnoel]

👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@walterpreston9663]

Just because you can flip a Cheeseburger 🍔 doesn’t mean you keep to getting paid for millions sold like the clown name Ronald …… Learn the business side and produce tracks yourself🏆👉🏿💯

[@toberform]

One of the few channels that does a deep dive justice 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@icetrip2417]

Excatly 🔥🔥🔥

[@fredronknowles4200]

Akademiks too

[@GroovyBearTV]

This content is on next level 🔥

[@holagovito]

Good shit Yassine. Ive heard 2 OLD SCHOOL rap songs on two different commercials for the last few weeks and every time I get mad cause I KNOW they ain't getting paid for that. They might be in the projects watching football and the commercial come on...."the hip the hop hippity hop you don't stop"...shit is nasty. Again, good job bro

[@GucciP777]

Yassine you have been completely killing it these days, just giving you proper acknowledgment 🙏🏿

[@icetrip2417]

Tbh lm so grateful that l found this channel 2yrs ago you been going hard 🥰🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TOTayo-]

The "I Want My Name Back" documentary was released in 2011!

[@trippyvannoir.333]

Love these music docs 🧐 learned something new about the industry 📝

[@demonte5305]

Damn another vid Yassine?! You’re killing it man, we see the grind. Keep it up

[@notaflightreactsfan3706]

hell yah these docs are really the roots of hip hop, salute yassine doing the game wonders one video at a time .

[@kanyebroiswear3170]

“They were also pioneers of the music video.😐… They were also pioneers of the music video!🙂”

[@Sad.Phantom]

I thought I was tweaking 😭😂

[@Sad.Phantom]

6:10

[@kanyebroiswear3170]

@@Sad.Phantom listening at work and thought I was in a thought loop

[@thomasmatthews8873]

Correction!!! Silvia Robinson bought a bunch of contracts from Bobby Robinson. Namely: The Furious Five, The Funky Four Plus 1, The Treacherous Three, Spoonie Gee) The FEARLESS FOUR went to Electra Records.

[@jonsmith848]

U left out Sylvia's other big hit...Pillow Talk. Also sugar hill area of Harlem was influential in the Harlem Renaissance..artist...Poets...writers

[@dr.andmrs.phibes7454]

Very good catch!

[@omar_padilla]

Thank you Miss Sylvia Robinson from the bottom of my heart and soul thank you for whatever reason it may have been bringing hip hop to the world thank you. Musically HIP HOP is my first love.

[@Purplegorillaz]

I like how to do your research and the content you put out..I learned something new here..

[@hopesomebodysrecordingthis]

Shout out to you for shouting out my hometown Englewood I went to school with Sylvia’s grandson they still out here💯

[@828Just]

Another great mini documentary good shit bro

[@YouTube_Disciple_YTD_Demon]

Hello Yassine 👋🏾 keep up the great work my boy 💪🏾💪🏾💯💯💯💯

[@macadon041]

Slyvia was beautiful

[@nicksandz3209]

Sylvia pushed the genre no Doubt but she did like every other executive and rrobbed the artist of publishing and money

[@styl1ssttt]

u always kill it with this type of videos

[@fuziontonygaming]

You should do one on Hypnotize Minds/Prophet entertainment, it’s an unfortunate fall from grace as well.

[@derricklogan2058]

Interesting story about Sugar Hill and Rapper's Delight....and the beginning of the genre. I still have Rapper's Delight and The Sequence albums. I wonder what they're worth now? Still play; no scratches on them.

[@kincamell]

Pillow Talk" is a 1973 song by American singer and songwriter Sylvia, written by Sylvia along Michael Burton Ps Peace to Grandmaster Caz (Cold Crush Brothers) Pps Peace to Hip Hop

[@sendawulakajubi2991]

I remember an old head telling me that story about how Sylvia and Joe drove around NYC asking people if they “Rapped” and that’s how the Sugar Hill Gang. And yes the lyrics in Rapper’s Delight are stolen from Grandmaster Caz aka Casanova Fly. Sylvia and Joe are still the Godparents of Hip Hop! Great content.

[@namerankserialnumber4387]

Yep. I read somewhere they pretty much just plucked Big Bank Hank out of a pizza place after hearing him rap along to music playing, then just threw him in the studio with the other 2 guys. It's a sadly cynical story of the birth of commercial rap.

[@dr.andmrs.phibes7454]

Once Sugar Hill Records owned hip-hop. If they had paid artists fairly, they might still own it.

[@ninocrown3247]

5:55 Young Kool Moe Dee in the middle without the Star Trek shades, as LL called them 😂.

[@nighthawk244]

yassine on the fucking GRIND!

[@BigBankReeds]

Big bank Hank is my uncle I when I was young I always wondered my I had a famous uncle but not a rich uncle the sugar hill gang story is crazy…. Rip uncle Hank 😢I’ll carry the legacy ✨

[@udontknowme6764]

Plz do my Nigga the culture NEEDS IT we NEED IT (coming from a 18 yrs. old)

[@yourstrulybostonyourstruly3185]

Brother…. I don’t know HOW TF you have an understanding of everything from music the pioneers of hip hop to lil yeat haha. You summin else fam, this historic stuff most folks don’t know

[@officialJOY1229]

The hustle was real. 🎶 🎼 Sylvia certainly hustled more than most. 🙏 🫶🏼

[@tyroneleak5673]

Ive traveled with master g for about a year around 2002-2003. he really hates when u sing that song and has negative memories of his time spent in music..

[@TheRealNativeSun]

Love the History Lesson. I’m not gonna say my age but I saw them perform when I was like 5 and never looked back. Hip Hop for Life 💯

[@davidemelia6296]

To be honest, I feel a bit disappointed that right from the start, management in hip-hop were largely fucking over their artists. Is it fair that the artists only ever saw less than 1% of the monies from their own work, and the label and their families all became rich? No wonder Ice Cube and Dr. Dre and others became so determined to have more control.

[@kdub7195]

Moris Levy was connected to the Colombo Family, Sonny Franzese to be exact.

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

There is much better info about this.. and the most interesting part is Caz telling the story of how his rhymes were literally stolen word for word by Hank from the sugarhill gang. Hip Hop was alive and kickin, as a subculture. And as every subculture, someone will always come along (the Hebrews had the strings in this one also, as they milked hiphop for years to come)to pimp it out. Robinson was the face but the real money - as with every record company - went to other people.

[@danielcolehernandez1852]

Sylvia - not on the outside is a great tune

[@B-Luck-J]

Yo for a second, I thought that was Chance the rapper in that Grand Master flash and furious 5 pick🤣🤣

[@mj99a]

SHG's "money problems" were that they were getting paid only a fraction of what they were owed on this huge record, cause sylvia and joe (who controlled the money) kept it all for themselves. the record sold millions, but the rappers themselves were broke.

[@therealEXMO]

250.000 that's it while they made millions your own people robbing you smh

[@jesussinaloa9300]

There's the flipside that no one sees....if it didn't work those rappers wouldn't pay her back and they would owe the Mafia money...yeah they got ripped off but Slyvia did most of the heavy lifting and risk taking

[@fredronknowles4200]

May God Bless Hip Hop

[@sircasseus825]

Bro you been dropping bangers back to back. You’re probably the youngest Hip Hop Historian ever

[@jaklair]

[@Osei_Bean_8ryant]

You going hard boy

[@zacktipplejr9882]

hold up I think u should make a video about pop music how it started

[@artiswilliams1472]

they only invented "hip hop and R&B setup".(used today) there were already dubby labels in jamaica who made gritty ass poet tracks.

[@cojack636]

Stop trying to take credit from American black people...

[@artiswilliams1472]

@@cojack636 its true man. and Sylvia was half latin. She was like a 1978 cardi B....

[@roybabineaux5353]

@@artiswilliams1472 did they play Latin music?, the answer is nope. They did what America was already doing.

[@j.t.7671]

@@cojack636 DJ Kool Herc is considered one of the founding members of the hip hop movement and was born in Jamaica. Hip hop has always been influenced by carribean culture, Latin culture, and black American culture.

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

@@roybabineaux5353 They didn't play Latin music, but don't discredit that people other than "American black people" helped the genre become what it is.

[@dano3211]

That's weird, because the first song that I heard with a rap in it was George Duke in 1977 "reach for it" I think was the name of the song...

[@Mr_Joseph979]

But... The first rap record on the radio was' Do it to me' by the fatback band with King Tim the 3rd doing the rapping. Grandfather flash and the furious 5 made their record before The sugar Hill gang but flash didn't want it played on the radio because radio was considered corny to hip hop djs and emcees at the time. So Sylvia hit the streets and basically created the sugar Hill gang using her step son Joey Jr ( big bank Hank) to do some rapping. Only joey had no rhymes so he got them from grandmaster Kaz.

[@dano3211]

@@Mr_Joseph979 What year did that fatback song come out, because the George Duke song came out in 77

[@Mr_Joseph979]

@@dano3211 fatback band came out in 79 3 weeks after rappers delight but was produced before rappers delight. Although George Dukes ' reach for it' ( which is one of my favorite funk songs) came out in 77' it's not really rapping as we know it. A few groups and artists would ' rap' during their songs but it was more like announcing and talking persuasively like to a girl.

[@dano3211]

@@Mr_Joseph979 The George Duke song sounded like a rap to me, because all the sentences actually rhymed..... the "announcing and talking persuasively like to a girl" is more of what Bootsy Collins was doing.

[@ninocrown3247]

Rapper’s Delight was a one-talk live recording, where Sylvia paid a 17 yo musician $75 to play the bassline to Chic’s “Good Times” for them to rap over. Good Times was released June 1979 and Rappers Delight Sept 1979. So, they basically stole the main part of a new hit record, only months old. Nile Rodgers heard the record while at a NYC club named Leviticus, approached the DJ for info about the record. Him and Bernard Edwards sued Sylvia & Joe for an out of court settlement and authorship rights going forward. It was a long time ago, but Good and Rapper’s Delight in 1979, that theft was pretty blatant. I’m sure Bernard wasn’t thrilled, as he created that bassline. I assume Sylvia said let’s get the money first and worry about the rest latter, which was risky. If Nile & Bernard were real azzholes and really had pursued it thru litigation, they possibly could have been awarded all the publishing in court going forward, which would have been a windfall. That $100M would have been Nile’s and Bernard’s. Wonder is anyone has asked him about this. He probably didn’t know the record would generate that amount of money in the future, as most musicians thought rap was a fad that would fade. Ironically, disco music was the fad that faded and rap is still around after 50 years.

[@j.t.7671]

Big Bank Hank definitely stole lyrics. Casanova Fly was Kas, not Hank. He even stole the rhyme about never letting an emcee steal your rhymes.

[@whoisthisbro_]

need the laws of power series to continue

[@kidkudoD1]

Great video you been dropping heat bro keep on 💪🏾💯💯💯 but I must admit sugar hill records was the worst thing to ever happen to Hip Hop. It allowed ppl not from the culture to come take the culture from the ppl who create within the culture. They literally paid niggas to bite off real mcs lyrics and just push it like it was them, this still going on today lol

[@christopherlewis2194]

She was the first thief why don't anybody ever say nothing

[@coolman000099]

Wondering when your Kanye video coming

[@itstheheistmeister3796]

They should had been added Grand Master Caz to the writers credits

[@danielleblue266]

Excellent

[@prayalways]

👩🏽‍💻✔Well Well Done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.

[@quentinmitchell4568]

Can you do more of record labels like: MMG (Maybach Music Group) Young Money Entertainment Cash Money Records No Limit Records Dreamville Records TDE (Top Dawg Entertainment) G-Unit Shady Records Aftermath Entertainment Grand Hustle Records We the Best Music Group Bad Boy South Def Jam South DTP (Disturbing Tha Peace) UTP Records

[@rocimasa]

💎

[@gaboronem8615]

Yo my guy!

[@wofat6300]

Roulette records was a partner? Wasn't they involved in the mob?

[@koolstup]

Sugar hill was also bankrolled by the mob

[@williamwright1281]

Sounds about like the same thing that Ray Kroc did to the founders of McDonald's

[@tonyharden7630]

Joe Robinson a promotions man that's one way of saying it lol! He was a bona fide gangster the money behind sugarhill records and big bank hank was security not a rapper he clearly stole lyrics grand Master Caz said so in a interview Sylvia Robinson was a very savvy business women and promoter check out hip hop uncovered documentary on FX probably the best hip hop documentary I have seen

[@terrenceliburd8655]

Sugar Hill record were clandestined owned by the Mobb

[@kkthedrummer8999]

We all knew Hank stole Grandmaster Caz lyrics and the musician never got paid and names wasn't on the record bad business

[@C-Lyfe85]

I don't understand why Sylvia and Sugar Hill records is Titled "controversial rise". She put down the slab and literally paved the way. After that, a bunch of culture vulture copycat independent record labels started, in rap.

[@udontknowme6764]

Why do they have to be copycat they all did it in their own way & were essential to the rise & spread of hip-hop smartass

[@C-Lyfe85]

@@udontknowme6764 First of all, if you want a logical conversation with me, you wouldn't call me names. Second of all I said what I said, you ain't got to like it, and I stand on it. ...F@ggot.

[@itsmarsnoel]

👑👑🙏🏾🙏🏾♥️🙏🏾🙏🏾👑👑

[@projectbaby9]

You have the story wrong from the start. Until you include Positive Force the band who played on the record it’s wrong. They are on the Album cover.

[@Lift_these]

Nah it wasn’t yo m Tv rap, it was Hot tracks then video music box. Yo M TV raps wasn’t the first to show hi hop videos it was Hot Tracks!!!! Hot tracks came out first. There’s a lot of mis information about hip hop and it’s origin. When you hear the origin of hip hop its not really from the point of view of the people who really originated it. Also you didn’t even mention one of the first DJ’s that First aired a hip hop song William rosco Mercer ( 98.7) in NYC… come on get y’all history right. I met Mr. Mercer my self before he pasted. He was an awesome Brother and should not be forgotten. Y’all have to stop this repackaging stuff ….,

[@yourtrunkrattles4398]

Tought my young ass stuff i aint know existed or people or groupls like who sugar hill amd ect

[@vibratehighermqueen3074]

Donna just died and they did get dirty

[@jolietheartist4522]

You got it all wrong. This isn’t the full story. I respect your grind and watch your videos, but just know , I’ll be contacting you. In honor of the 50 year legacy of the MOST influential genre in music, the FULL truth deserves to be told. Hidden figures, people behind the scenes, people who ACTUALLY, LIKE ACTUALLY were responsible for setting things in motion. People who never got the credit they rightfully deserve. This is for my grandfather. By any means, I’m going to tell his story that’s a promise.

[@homebell4866]

tell us that the powers of the Elite was behind it

[@hopesomebodysrecordingthis]

N pizza shop is called crispy crust

[@tonydasilvaofficial]

1st comment n first like🙂😭!

[@iw8ship]

ok

[@22calibeatz]

Actually wasnt 💀

[@icetrip2417]

W

[@signalhilltv5237]

ROFL claim that lyrics were stolen. Grandmaster Caz aka Cassanova Fly Big hank actually says his name in the rap. Other two guys say their names. Hello, I'm wonder mike, and I'm master G the G with the double e. big hank I am Cassona Ova and the rest is f l y.

[@j.t.7671]

Hank didn't even try to hide that he was stealing rhymes. He did it blatantly.

[@mrfinnie6999]

I think Enjoy came first.

[@Fendijett]

🐍🛸☔👀

[@helloyassine]

What are you even talking about

[@matthewarchibald4081]

Preachers delight the original Mercedes ladies the 1st. Female rap group

[@cgrant4520]

Success is a dead god Plutus 🌷🌑👍 rest in the good news 💐 Okay bye

[@saxopi]

bring back the pepe thumbnails my guy i'm beggin' you

[@peggytheveteran4968]

First

[@renem2257]

L u sa

[@faustostar9627]

I think hip hop shoulda remained local.

[@dougheffernan6191]

They were also pioneers of the music video in hip hop, there were many productions made under there label x2 😂

[@mrsmith8737]

How can you even mention Sylvia Robinson without mentioning “pillow talk” and how can you mention scratching without mentioning “grand wizard theodore”??? Also, talking about “rappers delight” you forgot to mention how Nile Roger’s sued the hell out of them for stealing parts of his creation “good times”. Lastly, hank did in fact steal rhymes from grand master caz; this is not an “allegation” this is FACT.. This is how misinformation gets started by people that are just looking to make a few Pennies from half done KZbin videos…

[@warrenlewis3977]

The song was so-so, what gave the song power was the Good times sample. Remember Good times was a monster of a tune in '79. If Rappers Delight had ANY OTHER sample you wouldn't even know it today. What you think?

[@j.t.7671]

Bars Hank stole include but are not limited to: "I'm the C-A-S-A-N, the O-V-A, And the rest is F-L-Y" Grandmaster Caz also went by Casanova Fly. "But I'm the grandmaster with the three MCs..." Grandmaster Caz was the Grandmaster with the 3 MCs. "She said, "Damn, fly guy, I'm in love with you. The Casanova legend must have been true."" Once again, Grandmaster Caz was Casanova Fly "But whatever you do in your lifetime You never let an MC steal your rhyme."" This line was also stoen from Grandmaster Caz, which is ironic.

[@sths360]

I’ve seen that I want my name back some time ago..

[@1.--_--.1]

Doug Wimbish from Living Color? Wow