The Sugarhill Gang

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艺人: The Sugarhill Gang
语种: 英语
厂牌: Sugar Hill
发行时间: 1980年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Alex Henderson

Although the Sugarhill Gang didn't invent hip-hop, they were the first rap act to have a huge international hit. Released in 1979, &Rapper's Delight& was millions of listeners' first exposure to hip-hop -- before that, very few people outside of New York even knew what hip-hop was. The Sugarhill Gang were also among the first rap acts to record a full-length LP; when this self-titled debut album came out in 1980, the vast majority of old-school MCs were only providing 12& singles. So The Sugarhill Gang is a historically important album even though it is a bit uneven. While &Rapper's Delight& and &Rapper's Reprise& (which features the Sequence, hip-hop's first all-female group) are excellent, most of the material is merely decent. And the ironic thing is that half of the songs aren't even rap. &Bad News Don't Bother Me& and &Here I Am,& both of which find the Sugarhill Gang singing instead of rapping, are romantic R&B slow jams -- and &Sugarhill Groove& is a sleek disco-funk number that hints at Roy Ayers. So this LP can hardly be called the work of hip-hop purists; in 1980, Sugarhill Records leader Sylvia Robinson (herself a veteran R&B singer) evidently felt that putting out an all-rap album would be risky. But, while The Sugarhill Gang isn't a masterpiece, it's still an album that hip-hop historians will find interesting.

The Sugarhill Gang

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