This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The song credited with being the first hip-hop recording to get wide radio play and cross over to a white audience was the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," ...
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Bearing the torch of hip hop in Birmingham, AL, these keepers of the craft draw on an endless wellspring of creativity, joy, community, and rhyme. Flexing their talent alongside the likes of Scarface, ...
The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...
On Saturday August 22, 1987, 75,000 metalheads undertook a pilgrimage to Donington Park for the eighth staging of the annual Monsters Of Rock festival. The day was notable for several reasons. The ...
Rodgers' "Good Times" guitar groove was later sampled in the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," widely considered the first crossover hip-hop song. Originally broadcast in 1996. This is ...
Rodgers' "Good Times" guitar groove was later sampled in the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," widely considered the first crossover... 'Fresh Air' celebrates 50 years of hip-hop: Chic ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. Rodgers' "Good Times" guitar groove was later ...
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