The Best of Sugarhill Gang [Rhino] by The Sugarhill Gang

The Sugarhill Gang: Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien, Joey Robinson Jr., Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright, Henry "Big Hank" Jackson (vocals). Additional personnel: The Furious Five, Kory-O (vocals). Producers include: Sylvia Inc., Joey Robinson Jr., Larry Johnson, Michael Johnson, Jigsaw Prod. Inc. Compilation producers: David McLees, Shannita Williams-Alleyne. Includes liner notes by Shannita Williams-Alleyne. U.K. import. Contrary to popular belief, the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was not the first rap song. For much of the world, however, it represented the first exposure to the burgeoning style, consisting of stripped-down backbeats, sampled music clips, and half-spoken/half-sung rhymed vocals from performers known as MCs. And a fine introduction it was--over the eminently danceable bass line from Chic's "Good Times," rappers Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Big Bank Hank laid down a rotating round of infectious, witty, quick-tongued raps. The hip-hop nation was born. Rhino's best-of compilation brings toge...