The Sugarhill Gang
"Rapper's Delight"
#36 (January 12, 1980)
Composed of Wonder Mike, Master Gee, and Big Bank Hank, the Sugarhill Gang scored their only Top 40 hit with the hip hop classic "Rapper's Delight". Using a sample of Chic's "Good Times" as the basis for the track, it hit #36 in 1980 and eventually marked them up as one of the first one hit wonders of the year.
However, the track, groundbreaking as it is, never faded into obscurity like a lot of other one hit wonders and has been sampled countless times by many artist ranging from 50 Cent to future one hit wonder Big Audio Dynamite (I'll tackle them later...). It was later marked #248 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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