The Original Sugarhill Gang chat to I Like Music

The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop and funk group, whose Rapper's Delight track was the very first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. In fact, this pioneering group inaugurated the history of recorded hip-hop with the single, which became a multi-platinum seller and radio hit in 1979.

I Like Music caught up with the legendary Original Sugarhill Gang to talk about their one-off on stage collaboration with Dizzee Rascal at the Sony Walkman launch, what it feels like to be pioneers of hip hop music and their party atmosphere creation secrets.

I Like Music because.... it gives me an opportunity to truly express myself, unlike what happens in an everyday living situation where there are restrictions on you and limitations on you and demands on you and bills to pay, through music I can truly be comfortable with who I am, and do what I really want to do and say what I really want to say." MASTER GEE

ILM: First of all, sorry to have to ask the question you must get asked the most but, seeing as you are pioneers and inventors of hip hop and "Rapper's Delight," was the first-ever top 40 hip-hop single to go gold and be released nationally, (spawning the genre of recorded hip-hop and rap music). How did it feel to be the first, to invent something that has grown so huge?
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