Ha,Ha You should've been there. I was a kid when that song came out. Rap was new to most people back then and whenever a new rap song came out in the early 80's dudes around my way was walking around the neighborhood playing it on their boomboxes and kids would follow behind trying to look cool
Rappers Delight was the first rap song I ever heard. By The Sugarhill Gang, in 1979/1980 and to this day it remains my fave by far...
This one was more my time I suppose... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCFX5_byJw The B-I-G D-A-DOUBLE D-Y K-A-N-E!! HAHAHA...if I was black I'd totally be rocking the high-top box haircut!
DAMN!! Hold on a sec, let me get into my B-Boy stance. Ahh, hip hop was so grand before it was discovered you could make money off it.
I like Aerosmith's Walk This Way, if that could be construed as a rap tune. People should write more stuff like that with energetic rhythms. I think some rap group did a remake of that tune. .
Yep. That remake was apparently the first hip hop tune to make the top ten on the charts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_DMC .
also the very first record album I ever bought. (Raisin' Hell) It's still a classssick album! ...the second record I ever bought was "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" by Public Enemy.
