For the first music video on TheDineros.com, I had to put the first Rap video I ever watched on MTV in 1987. The Sugarhill Gangs' Rapper's Delight, the first hip hop single created.
For all my peeps, that were not born at the time, here is a little info on these legends:
This pioneering group inaugurated the recorded history of hip-hop with their single "Rapper's Delight", a multi-platinum seller and radio hit in 1980. New Jersey-based producer and indie label owner Sylvia Robinson had become aware of the massive hip-hop block parties occurring around the New York City area during the late '70s, so she gathered three locals from her town of Englewood, New Jersey: Guy O'Brien, who was the original Master Gee; another local rapper, Michael Wright, who called himself Wonder Mike, and Big Bank Hank. The vocalists were then teamed up with three session musicians, including future Living Colour bassist Doug Wimbish. Together, they recorded all of the Sugarhill Gang’s work.
I remember alway watching this video an thinking I was going to be their fourth member. I know I was not the only one............
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