Tag Archives: Sugarhill Gang
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RIFF Rewind—A time machine for your ears: 1980
We’ve reached two milestones: The ’80s, and modern music. This is the first time we have hip-hop, punk and metal in the top five. While rappers had been performing through the ’70s, the first two widely-released singles (Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” and Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”) didn’t come…