Hip-hop pioneers and NJ natives the Sugarhill Gang will perform at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, N.J., on January 10.
On today’s date, 45 years ago, Hip Hop’s first Billboard Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight,” was released by Englewood, New Jersey’s Sugarhill Gang. As one of Hip Hop’s earliest relics, this single, ...
Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur talks about Angie Stone’s profound impact on music talking to legends of Hip-Hop Culture. In 1981, after she had a hit song, Angie B was backstage at Disco Fever in the Bronx ...
In 1979 the rap group Sugarhill Gang was formed, and in that same year, they became one of the most talked about groups in the genre of hip-hop. Their hit song “Rapper’s Delight” was released that ...
*With Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in association with Sal Abbatiello of Fever Records, sponsoring the 38 th Anniversary of the famed Bronx nightclub “Disco Fever” by presenting an Old School ...
The second in a series of Retropolis stories looking back at moments in hip-hop history during the week of the music genre’s 50th anniversary. In 1979, the Billboard charts were awash in disco grooves ...
The Sugar Hill Gang hit the scene and cranked out Hip-Hop’s first Hit song. But, there have been rumors that The mafia was linked to the iconic label Sugar Hill Records. It’s time for people to start ...
Keith LeBlanc, a drummer, producer and recording artist best known for his work on pioneering early hip-hop records by Grandmaster Flash and others, died Thursday after a battle with an undisclosed ...
Yard Goats fans will be treated to a different kind of delight at Dunkin’ Park after a game on Sept. 5 – old-school hip-hop artist the Sugarhill Gang. The team typically holds a post-game concert near ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Sugarhill Gang, the legendary hip-hop group that pioneered American rap with their 1979 hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” will perform in downtown Grand Rapids this weekend as part ...
On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...