This is how it was in 70's when white, black, and latin all made great music together, Just look at KC and the Sunshine Band. Glad I grew up in the 70's.

@ITKurly

Жыл бұрын

Disco lives forever!!!!

@Triggerhippie70

Жыл бұрын

Same! Times were great back in the day, I miss it!

@DocRock1965

Жыл бұрын

KC was awesome! I was around 8 or 9 when KC hit the scene.

@michaellombard894

Жыл бұрын

1979. Yes the first rap/hip-hop song I'd ever heard, absolutely amazing rhyming abilities. And the full version is like 14 minutes long!!! I'm a multi-instrumentalist; drums first, then guitar, then bass, a little mando and vocals too. Still play 2-3x/week. As a drummer, I get so charged hearing great timing, meter & inflection such as this...

@addamcarroll2395

19 күн бұрын

Sly and the family stone tower of power wild cherry and the average white band all made some great r & b music back in the day

This is original rap. Good vibes, no cursing or degrading lyrics. Just good times for ALL . Everyone smiling having fun. All race, creed, color didn’t matter. ❤️👍🏻

@paulapowers781

Жыл бұрын

As it should be

@stuartperry8141

Жыл бұрын

I hate it when people act like everything was so good in the past. Times were different when I was growing in Queens in the seventies; during this time my neighborhood was basically segregated. I see more integration in everyday life now than I have ever seen.

@stuartperry8141

Жыл бұрын

@@saulgoodman5494 the Message was just a record during that time Run DmC, the Fat Boys, etc.

@ncat4369

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartperry8141 sorry it was like that in your neighborhood. I was fortunate to live in the projects where we got along in the Bronx in the old days. My experience was a good one.

@saulgoodman5494

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartperry8141 oh

This was the first song to bring Rap into the mainstream. It's not gangsta rap. That came many years later. This was popular across all genres and recieved airplay on stations that had never heard of it. American Bandstand brought it to millions of white teenagers.

@greygreen5610

2 жыл бұрын

your not correct, blondies song rapture was the first mainstream song to contain rap music

@todddixon6347

2 жыл бұрын

@@greygreen5610 while Rapture was a great song and hit, it didn't cross genre lines. I never heard it played on black stations . It was considered a novelty . Rapper's Delight was a full song from start to finish that was all Rap. It's sales were what got the Sugarhill Gang booked on American Bandstand. They always played the current hits. For many teens that watched it religiously, this was the first time they had seen it performed. They loved it.

@cocopuff7038

2 жыл бұрын

yes it wasnt the first rap but it was the first rap that made it big time mainstream the very first rap was The Jubalaires "Noah" in the 40's

@Cosmo-Kramer

2 жыл бұрын

@@greygreen5610 It is YOU who are not correct. "Rapper's Delight", was a Top 40 hit on the US Billboard 200, and it came out OVER A YEAR before, "Rapture".

@greygreen5610

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramer a top 40 hit in the US is not necessarily mainstream which was what the original comment was about. Rapture was a hit all over the world and a number 1 in several countries which i would suggest is introducing rap to the masses. if the comment had been its the first rap song then that would have been correct.

Ahhh…The Sugar Hill Gang. Ole school! Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn…🎼 We knew every word back in the day and there was every color, singing together! 🥰

@laurakali6522

2 жыл бұрын

And we still know every word but can’t remember where we put our keys……

@Rosiepooh75

2 жыл бұрын

This was mainstream. Everyone knew it, verbatim, and everyone sang it whenever it came on 😍

@jackiegoodspeed1849

2 жыл бұрын

" say what?"

@jackiegoodspeed1849

2 жыл бұрын

@@laurakali6522 Lol

@krimmie1111

2 жыл бұрын

And still know it today!!!!!!

The year was 1979 and yes this song was considered by many as the first rap song. We loved the silliness to the words as well as a great base line. Fun to groove your body to! (I had the vinyl record back in the day.)

@wakeupstopsleeping6300

2 жыл бұрын

It's not the first rap song but the first to go mainstream

@TonyM1961

2 жыл бұрын

Blondie was rapping on Rapture in 1977 and she was only an echo of what was hitting the streets but not the radio

@stilltwisted1

2 жыл бұрын

@@TonyM1961 yeah ,i remember Fab5 Freddy tapes being sold out of car trunks earlier than sugarhill

@bgvan37

2 жыл бұрын

@@TonyM1961 1981

@TonyM1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@bgvan37 That was when they finally released it on vinyl, but if you got the chance to catch them in the clubs before they really shot to the top, it had been in their repertoire for several years

Are you kidding me? This takes me straight back to my roller skating days in the80s! All my friends wore this record out learning the whole song. We were mesmerized! You just put the biggest smile on my face right now!

@kimberlinibambini1988

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely- and there’s lots of chopped versions on KZread like this one- I had the 33 vinyl album and this one song was the entire album- (I remember the center label was a blue/ turquoise color- ) I too know every word..and have been put on the spot a few times at get togethers- 😆

@chriswildhaber35

2 жыл бұрын

Me too haha.

@deelindastimac7359

2 жыл бұрын

Same you'd be so tired skating this whole song oh memories ✌️

@myrevival4325

2 жыл бұрын

Haha you had me at roller skating haha. I completely forgot that!

@lisaanderson3802

2 жыл бұрын

We did the same thing. We played this record over and over to learn the words.

The background that's being sampled is "Good Times " by Chic

Rap on the scene. My white friends loved this just as much as our Hispanic friends , etc. We were quite unified back then. I don't think it will ever come back but I'm glad I got to experience what unity is supposed to look like. Great reaction. The 80s was a time of unification for the most part. We wanted the world to stay that way but it hasn't and more divided than ever. You all must see our unity to understand what it looks like and through music what it can feel like. Even in church, there's a difference when there's true unity and even unity was in the church back then.

@kellyreiterman

2 жыл бұрын

Totally, Jackie. Everybody loved it. Such fun positivity.

@burnaccount0019

2 жыл бұрын

Correct! And worse still, today's media has brainwashed and convinced the masses of the younger generations that such unity never existed within general day-to-day society in the past, in order to help push their false racial, gender stereotypes and segregationist "divide and conquer" agenda.

@michaelasay8587

2 жыл бұрын

@@kellyreiterman Kelly, did they play this whole song? I can't remember but it's so long.

@kellyreiterman

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelasay8587 They reacted to the single version, Michael. I forget how long the extended version ran. I wish I still had that vinyl and all the other vinyl from back in the day.

@fidel2xl

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabead Exactly

It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released “Rapper's Delight,” a song widely considered to be the first hip-hop track

@chriswildhaber35

2 жыл бұрын

Great tune I was 10 when this came out.

@mitchwinthrop

2 жыл бұрын

mainstream hip-hop for sure but fatbacks king tim came out first and there was rapping going back to the 40s. check here comes the judge. 🙂

@finallythere100

Жыл бұрын

I was disco dancing at clubs w strobe lit colorful floors like the one in Saturday Night Fever. This song was a BIG regular! The beginning of the musical genre transition.

You're witnessing rappers introducing Rap music at the disco. I remember this newness at our own local discotheques. You should checkout THE MESSAGE by The Furious Five and Grandmaster Flash.

I'm 54 from London England. This is the FIRST record I ever brought! It was a 45, this is an absolute CLASSIC! I can still almost sing it word for word! LOVE IT! Best Rap song ever.

@jujutrini8412

4 ай бұрын

SAME! Do you remember roller discos? 😂😂😂

@rokit430

2 ай бұрын

Yeah😂❤

@stevew585

2 ай бұрын

Of course!😂😂​@@jujutrini8412

The music was from Chic's song, "Good Times." A studio band recreated an instrumental version and they rapped over it.

We roller skated to this way back in the day! Good Laaawd, i was 7!🤣🤣 we knew every word, and even made up a dance to it, and danced while on skates! This was the first mainstream rap song, and we lost our minds! ( in a good way)💕💕🕺🕺💃💃

@demeemiller347

2 жыл бұрын

Look up the old lady in The Wedding Singer...it won't let me load content🙄

@jodiedehart3314

2 жыл бұрын

@@demeemiller347 i know exactly what you're talking about🤣🤣, and one of my favorite movies!💕

Friends, don't forget to mention this was rapped over the instrumental breaks of Chic's "Good Times", one of the biggest funk songs ever made. This is why the beat is mindblowing

How is it possible that you guys haven’t heard this?🤪🤪🤪

"Rapper's Delight" dropped when I was in eighth grade. I remember how some of the other kids tried to remember the words to varying degrees of success so they could rap the song themselves. There was no internet back then to make looking up lyrics easy. The sample is from "Good Times" by Chic. Listening to it again just now I'm struck by how some of the phrases they dropped became tropes in the decades since. Yes, it's the song that kicked off rap as a genre. The opening line provided the name for hip-hop as well, but that name didn't catch on until the late eighties.

Back when there was no social media, no identity politics, no cultural appropriation, no wokism, no helicopter parents. Life was just so simple. Everybody hanging out together just enjoying good music. I miss that era so much, we had the best music.

@sallybannister6224

2 жыл бұрын

Great song, great uncompleted times no twat chat, bullying social media ...

@2apocalypsex

2 жыл бұрын

Despite how people look back at these times as simple, there was so much bad shit that happened in the world in the 70, and 80s

@sallybannister6224

2 жыл бұрын

@@2apocalypsex Nothing as bad as Covid though .

@elbruces

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I miss the days when police could shoot unarmed black people at will and it didn't even make the news. Simpler times. Then people came along and started finding out about it and complaining about it and ruined everything for us...

@sallybannister6224

2 жыл бұрын

@@elbruces Yeah and didn't hear about all the armed black people and gangs and stuff killing each other in drive bys and drugs and shit ..

This was when rap music was FUN! You've got to check out a rapper called Kurtis Blow, another pioneer of the genre. The Breaks and Christmas Rappin' are his most famous ones. BANGERS!!!

@Jay-br9ee

2 жыл бұрын

Grandmaster Flash is also very old school. But growing up the mid 70s and all of the 80s and 90s was so much fun. Especially the 80s. It was so different in the 80s.

The first rap song I ever heard! 💯 At the skating rink and everyone loved it!

I remember my brother bringing the 12" single version of this home. Wish I still had that thing! :D

@jackiegoodspeed1849

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Man I can't believe what I DIDNT save. Crazy huh!

@ajruther67

2 жыл бұрын

I lost all my 12" singles as well

@daveyboy_

2 жыл бұрын

I have the '45 . Ill sell it for lets say $100

"Rapper's Delight" is the first rap record to have commercial success on the Billboard charts. It is credited as the first rap record. Although, "King Tim III" by The Fatback Band may be the actual first rap record to chart.

@Cosmo-Kramer

2 жыл бұрын

"King Tim III", did beat, "Rapper's Delight", to market by a few months in 1979, but it was not strictly a rap song, as roughly half of it was regular singing. Also, "King Tim III", only charted on the R&B chart, not the broader appeal Billboard 100 chart. In contrast, "Rapper's Delight", charted on the broader appeal Billboard 100, where it was a Top 40 Hit.

@robertwood4240

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the first 2 rap songs I ever heard was king Tim lll and then Rappers Delight when I was stationed in Okinnwa Japan. I was there in 1979,1980..😎

@Melrose-1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramer That's what I meant when I said "Rapper's Delight" had the first commercial success. I was referring to the pop charts. I have that album by the Fatback Band, but I haven't played in years. Thanks for the extra added info. 😃

@LN-Lifer

2 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna check that out

@gls5031

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Pigmeat Markham Here comes the Judge was the first rap record.

This Was the First Mainstream Rap Song. Everyone learned the Words to this Song. This was the short version that you reacted to. Please react to the Full 14 Minute Version to Rappers Delight. This song was played at all the School Dances and Parties and at the Skating Rinks. The 14 Min Version was played at Dances and Skating Rinks etc.

The flows are so smooth. This is how you rock a crowd.

I love the energy in this and the fact that he was including people of all colors getting together to have a good time, we need more music like this!

The backing track is sampled from Chic's Good TIme's written by Niles Rodgers and has influenced many other songs through the years.

Love it! Definitely takes me back! My favorite by them was always 8th Wonder..I used to rap it to all my kids while they were growing up,still do,lol..Apache is another good one by them(if you ever watched Fresh Prince of Bel -Air there is a scene in an episode where Will and Carlton dance to this song at a strip club,hilarious!) also try out Freak A Zoid-Midnight Starr and Space Cowboy-Jonzun Crew..Keep On Rockin'

Ahhh yeah! We ALL loved this and we all sang along. I believe it was used in the Wedding Singer…elderly woman busts out singing it.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 gave the first hint of Street Rap with a great song called "The Message". It is a true testament of things to come in the Rap Scene.

@moonbeam0439

2 жыл бұрын

loved that song!

@joepereira1205

2 жыл бұрын

The message came later. GM Flash had quite a few hits already.

This is where the term “hip hop” came from. No one knew the name of the song or the band, so in the record store everyone asked for that “hip hop” song. 😁

Yes! This was the first Hip Hop Rap song that came out. I'm going to be 59 years old this summer and even now I'm rapping along with this song, word for word. Thank you guys for reacting to it. I love you two love birds. Stay blessed and Stay True.✌️😎🎶🤘💯 and for Mel 🌹❣️🙏

Disco era entering rap era,The transition was crazy...I WAS THERE👊🏿,you'll see it in alot of music videos 70s to 80s

@darylobey8867

Жыл бұрын

Theres alot of boy brwaks that are also disco and alot of them disco joints hit hard at jams

@804reezy

Жыл бұрын

@@darylobey8867 👊🏿

Back when Rap required skill and provided entertainment value. 👵🏼 💃🏽🕺

This was the roots of rap. I grew up through this era. This was when rap was best, when it was LEGITIMATELY creative and meant something. This is when rap was fun, told a story, and was real. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way someone bastardized it into the garbage it is today, that glorifies violence, alcohol abuse, elicit sex, elicit drug use, and degradation of females. Gone are the days of Sugarhill gang, Kool Moe Dee, Newcleus, Grandmaster Flash and the furious five, etc.

@NiteDriv3r

Жыл бұрын

Ice t nwa

Apparently, from whence the term 'hip-hop' came.

exactly right. they were the 1st to do the rap. I was in grade school when this rap came out and I'm old.

It is 1979. I am 11 years old, white and growing up in the suburbs. Still, when I heard this I knew something was just planted. From this grew 1980's rap which provided the roots for todays music.

Love you guys! We all need to remember that music really can bring us together!

Check out Blondie: Rapture, if you haven't already. Peace

@induspherix

2 жыл бұрын

tHat's the word. I want to see you guys immersed in the music video. Solid HOPE party music promising the day DISCO FUNK and could also really put the ROCK in block rockin beats

I am 65 and I was in my early teens when this song came out and I loved it. I am white and back then all races party together and just jammed on all kinds of music. Great times and great music

This is where the name “hip hop” music comes from.

We used to skate to this and “the message” at the skating rink every Friday and Saturday night…great times.

I am a 50 some year old and i can still remember the summer thos came out. Bought the LP and me and my cousin spent 2 days listening and reciting this until we knrw it by heart. Even today, i still know ot word for word. The power of music!

I'm 61 years old and I remember the first time it came on the radio. It was a long rap album. Nobody had heard anything like this before. It opened a whole new kind of music for life. I remember every single word by heart. I started laughing when you said they look like they're in a disco. They were on soul train show. Now I know you heard of soul train awards to this day. All classic singers. Temptations, Gladys knight and the pips etc. American bandstand was the show everyone looked at until soul train came along. Black people had a show of their own.

First rap song ever made with 6 minutes straight with no breaks in between! Sugar hill gang, rappers delight...

61 years old here and I have always known this as the first RAP song, and gave always loved it, you pretty much said it all yourselves.

I’m new to your channel but I love the way you are going back from the beginning. This was this first RAP song.

This was the first rap song many of us Gen-Xers heard. I scored the vinyl from a friend, swapped for some fireworks, God I miss the 70's.

The first rap song I ever heard on the radio. I was in the 6th grade waiting in line to get on the yellow school bus home. There was a car blasting this out there window and I couldn't believe what I was hearing! First of all we didn't blast music out of an car at an elementary school back then and the rest was history. Now I'm in my 50s and I'm a grandmother.

Those were the days! No race issues at all in our crowds. The music was so much fun. Skating Rinks were the bomb and we were there 3 nights a week to skate to all of this music. So much fun. We had a 6 pack shuffle skate team. Some of the best times of my life to this music. Late 70's early 80's. So much. Check out The Time, Prince, Grandmaster Flash, and the furious five.

This was the first rap song to actually go mainstream and have a music video so this was ground breaking for 1979.. My pops said rap was a thing in N.Y in the early to late 70s in his teen years. People would rap all the time on the block! Shout out to Sugar Hill Gang for taking rap to the next level!

This was 1979 and the first rap song that became an international hit and started a new genre of music "Rap" that became mainstream. This is the song that started it all..."Rapper's Delight" by The Sugar Hill Gang. Later there will be other rappers like Curtis Blow, song "These Are the Breaks", Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, song "White Lines", Run DMC, song "Walk This Way", "Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch" song "Good Vibrations" just to name a few. The rest as they say is history.

1979,,,,,,our first taste of hip hop,,,,,we had no idea how big it would get back then

I am from England, Sugarhill Gang was from 1979, take a look at Sugarhill Record label, you will find other great artists.

This was not the first RAP song, however it was the first to make the billboard top 40. Just an awesome and fun song.

YES! When this song first came out, the Sugar Hill Gang was promoting it and performed it live at my Roller Rink in Brooklyn, NY; (Roll A Palace on Sheepshead Bay Road; I Lived in there 😂). I think back often about how fortunate I am to grow up when I did and WHERE I did❤️. I’m 54 and I still Jam Skate and play this music 😊😊😊

1980. I was a senior in high school. We knew ALL of the words. Still do!!

This is the song that kicked off the hip hop revolution. Period. End of story. There is no other.

Man, those 3 brothers were on point, just dominated! Excellent control by all 3, excellent tone, lyrics that made sense and were hilarious........something I never thought someone could RAP to, now c'mon!! Yeah, those 3 were fantastic and each one was different from one another so this made this masterpiece THAT much better.......this is how you knock one out of the universe........

Here is another thing that was socially phenomenal about this song. In the hood, guys who literally could not write, were writing out the lyrics of this song, coming out at night, and rapping this song! It was phenomenal!

This has got to be "The Godfather of Rap songs" !!! Everybody was jamming to this when it hit the airwaves !! 🤘

There was a song called Super Rhyme by Jimmy Spicer also. These are pretty much the two pioneering songs that really set it all off, Rapper's Delight being the first.

Yes yes yes guys I still love this song! This was the 70's & I still remember me & my friends dancing & partying to this song! Now I am telling my age, but I still love this song today as much as I did then! Brings back memories! Love, love love your reaction!

It was certainly the frst rap song I ever heard. It still stands up today as a great song, even with the disco beat.

I was a teenager in high school in Germany when this song came out in 1979 and it was a smash hit for a very long time. Those days, we carried a boombox (cassette tape) everywhere we walked, to school, football practice locker rooms, etc. This song was played at every school dance for years. Everyone loved this song. Many think that this was the first rap song, but a few months prior to this release, Fatback released King Tim III and it too, was played at every dance. Rap was new and it was a nice addition to the Disco years. This song will be forever in my memories during some of the best years of my life. There was six of us that hung out together, 3 white, 3 black and we called ourselves the Oreo Gang. Of all the songs we played when carrying our boomboxes, no other song was played more than this one in the three years I was there. Peace to all

Yup the first... Now it's time to listen to some Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash. In those days there were no issues we all partied Together. 70' & early 80's was fun and love. 2000 music got crazy. Nice voice Mel.

My son told ne that there were bo rappers in my day. I introduced him to Sugarhill Gabg. The original rappers free style with only a 💓

You are the sweetest cpl. I hope you have ten million kids. The world needs more of you guys x

⭐️ YES YES YES, SHAWN, this was ONE of the very FIRST RAP songs!!! ⭐️ ❤️ 🥰❤️ S and M HIT SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️ 💕 With all my love, always ~ Laura 💕

I heard this song while serving in the Navy in Okinawa. My roommate from the Bronx went home and came back with this song. Had the whole barracks dancing. We had some serious stereo equipment that will blow the windows. It was so cool

YES 70S. 1ST RAP I had that album, probably still do. I knew every word. I'm an old 59 year white woman. Lol. First rap

Haha love your reaction. I’m 54 years old and recall as a young boy this being the first mainstream rap song I ever heard, and I love it to this day.

You haven't lived until you've been in a disco with a couple hundred people in bell-bottoms and platform shoes, guys included, and more than half the crowd knows most of the words to this song and they're just belting it out as they dance. People always say disco sucks but I'm a heavy Rock chick and I loved my disco days! It was so much fun to go out dancing night after night to this stuff.

1980 in Berlin, everywhere this song played up and down. And we were fascinated by it. That was our Hip Hop/Breakdance time.

Back in the 70s we were rocking, what a decade for music - you cannot touch it lol

This was a huuuuge hit back in the day..!! Lol. WE ROCKED this song on dance floor!High School dazzze!

This was the first rap song I heard, at a dance in 1979. The song they sampled is Good Times by Chic, and they dj started with that and mixed Rapper's Delight in and I was hooked. My friends and I wrote down the whole song (it's about 12 minutes or so), and to this day, I still remember every line. I was rapping just now 😄. And yeah, I got tired 😄. This is when rap was just fun, my kind of rap. True classic.

I had a great teacher in 5th grade, Mrs. Drew. She let kids bring in records to play in class. One of the other boys brought this in, and she let the whole song play. My first exposure to rap, loved it. Never have forgotten that day!

Aaaah memories back when rap was GOOD!!!!...that was either at the TV show American Bandstand or Soul Train kids.

You alluded to one of the most favorable points of the Disco era, it brought everyone together!! People from every race were having the time of their lives dancing to the same great disco tunes, no matter where you were!

Welcome aboard, youngsters! We rocked to this jam , back when it first played on the radio. A party wasn't a party until this was played by the DJ.

I remember roller skating to this song at the Skateland in the 80s and everybody would get on the floor when this song came on. The 70s were lit when it came to music.

I used to dollar skate to this song back in the early 80’s. We ALL loved it!

So many drops came from this song! First rap song I ever heard. Late 70’s.

This was the first vinyl record I ever owned. I got it when it 1st released & I still LOVE this song today!!! That brought back some great memories, thanks guys. 😁 You made me smile tonight, I really needed that! 😊

i'm enjoying your company guys so fun to see you get into this!

The original is near 15mins long,but this is the first to get any recognition and was the launching point for party rap,then hardcore, then gangsta/reality rap in the decades to come

THAT USE TO BE MY JAM BACK IN THE DAY, THANK YOU I NEEDED TO HEAR THAT PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE

Huge party song. Everybody loved it. We had a 12 inch 'disco-version' at our fraternity house, and wore it out. Guaranteed to fill the dance floor.

Kim Tim lll was the 1st rap song but this goes down as the 1st to most. And where the words HIP HOP originated. 1979 is when it came out. I was 12 and saw the beginning of it all from this to RUNDMC, to Eric B and Rakim, LL, Biggie And Pac and so on. That was 43 years ago and although rap has changed IT STILL EXIST. Peace and love. Trace from Flatbush. Big Ups

I was 17 years old when this song came out , and I will tell you we had less race issues then, than we do now. It was the live and let live generation. The top 40 every week had black artists , white artists, instrumentals, We have went backwards since them days.

This is when disco transitioned to rap/hip-hop. When I was in college, in NYC, we had a 12PM ritual my friends and I would rap this every day in the cafeteria. It was around '78/'79. In those days, no one saw "color" btw...I adore this jam. And, I am an Italian girl from The Bronx...

This song and Blondie's Rapture broke the whole idea into the mainstream. Early rap was pure talent and musical. It was unifying rather than dividing. Everybody, even rockers, loved it.

They visited Dominican Republic in 1980 thanks to this hit. We were crazy in DR when this song came out. A classic !!

My friends and I were 12 yrs old when this came out, and we took PRIDE in memorizing every word of this epic song!

OMG! Thank you for that one of the coolest rap songs. Long time ago🥰. Regards from Germany

This song was what got the movement to mainstream. Back in the 1970s Chic had a hit single that a lot of MCs freestyled to (Good Times). Nile Rodgers said when chic performed Good Times at a concert, a couple of MCs jumped on stage grabbed some Mics and freestyled to the music. Nile and Bernard were caught off guard by it but went along with it and enjoyed it.

Christmas Rappin' In 1979, at the age of twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released "Christmas Rappin'". It sold over 400,000 copies, becoming one of the first commercially successful hip hop singles. Its follow-up, "The Breaks", sold over 840,000 copies.

I remember this song when I was a kid:) I love it! Thanks for bringing back some great memories guys! Much love!♥️🤗👍😎

Seen them live in Edison NJ....1979 with the Hall of famer jazz musician Art Blakey...Been hooked ever since...There flow was historic...

There is always an argument over the "first" song in any genre, but it was basically the first mainstream rap single on radio, as it hit the Top 40 on the Hot 100. It samples "Good Times" by Chic.