63 year old white music geek here, and when this was first released I was so psyched to introduce my friends to this song it was over the top, THE FIRST rap song, no foul language no degrading of ladies, and I believe I gave it a 95 out of 100 it had great lyrics and the beat was amazing and easy to dance to . God bless you great reaction 😅.
FAR from the first, just the first to go mainstream. Noah by The Jubalires was the first in the 30's it wasn't called rap then but by today's standards it was. Hell even the song Uranium Fever by Elton Britt could be considered proto-rap... That was released in the 50's
I was 15 Years Old when Rapper's Delight was released in 1979. It was the First Rap song that was played on the Radio. I learned all the Words. The Full 14 Minute version was played at Dances and Skating Rinks. Everyone 50 and over memorized the words.
YES, first rap song played on the radio, EVER, and it blew up. Everyone I knew learned every word!! Notice he says near the beginning: "Now what you hear is not a test, we're just rapping to the beat." He had to explain it because this was the first rap record other than kids just messing around hanging out.
The sample is the instrumental of the huge disco cut "Good Times" by the group Chic. They are just rhyming over that track. Hip Hop had already started, even had a couple of dedicated Black college radio stations on the east coast. But this was the first big single/record. The MC here, Master Gee, was one of those well known college radio DJs.
This was the “beginning” of Rap Music…and it gradually became a universal phenomenon! In my humble opinion..the “greatest” Rap 1980’s-1990’s…. Most of the Rap today seems X-rated and not for young people..and seems to take positivity out of the Art of Rap…love the Reaction MEE❤GEE 💯❤️🙏🏻
Definitely Felt Like I Was In A Time Machine , It Took Me Back And I Was Never There To Begin With . I Respect Your Opinion , You Have A Point Michael . Great Feedback As Always , I Appreciate You ♡
Yes, there's nothing quite like the classy old-fashioned family-friendly rap lyrics like "he can't satisfy you with his little worm / but I can bust you up with my super sperm".
I remember these guys. Everytime I hear it i wanna groove. 4:15 I believe it was. It was the first of it's kind. Nothing else was playing on the radio like it.
Lil Mia thanks for doing this one for me ❤❤❤ My mom introduced me to this fabulousness ❤❤ Me and my mom never missed an episode of Soul Train❤❤❤ We bumped this at every school dance and Noone was sitting down 😂
Great reaction Mia once again yes this is where it started this is hip hop back when MC's would rap about any and everything not violence sex or drugs it was all about music and rhymes 80s and early 90s rap was te greatest Era of hip hop
I was a teenager when this song came out!! It was the Jam!! First Rap song that came out. I remember all the house parties that played this song. Fire 🔥 and didn’t nobody got into a fight or started shooting. We were too busy working up a sweat!!!
Darlin thanks so much for this reaction. 1981 Senior Follies , I had to teach a football team to roller skate on stage to this song. Great memories. I’m sitting here chair dancing. My grandkids think I’m crazy. The root of rap for sure 🤓🦉❤️
We locked ourselves in the dorm room and played this record over and over until we knew every single word. I love, love, love seeing you enjoy and appreciate the classics from my era. Happy New Year 💗✌️
I was in my senior year of high school when "Rapper's Delight" was released. All of my friends and I LOVED it! We learned the words and tore up the floor at the parties when this song was played. Such great memories!
4:17..Right on, Mia..song's been sampled so much they probably made more $$ off the royalties than the actual record ( Songs, Ads, Movies) I do recall it only made it to 36 on the Billboard, but became a huge dance club hit nationwide and still stayed in heavy radio rotation for the rest of the year.
This was from a show called Soap Factory Disco Show from 1979-the show ran from 1978-1980 & very much had a Soul Train vibe. Certainly the first big rap hit-Gil Scott Heron had effectively been doing rap in a poetry style for many years before this without chart success. It got to number 3 here in the UK when I was 3 years old & was a big hit all over Europe, though surprisingly not so big in the US.
Very first rap on a record. Before this all crews were live and from NYC only. Disco predated and created rap. City kids created rap because we were nit allowed to go to discos.
This is basically the break from "Good Times" by Chic, written by Nile Rogers. The first big hit rap song (as opposed to the first one ever recorded) was created by jackin' tunes.
I remember when this song came out. Back then it was the full 14 minute version that each emcee had 3 verses if memory serves me. This was the original commercial rap song and some purists like to down them since they were from New Jersey and not a central part of the hip hop scene but like other commenters said below, without this first commercial success the genre would have not moved forward. After this I always think about the "Message" from Grand Master Flash & the 5, "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow" and "Magic's Wand" by Whodini along with other segue groups like UTFO, Boogie Boys, Treacherous Three, etc. Big ups to Grandmaster Caz as I believe it was said that he may have "contributed" to Big Bank Han's lyrics.
I remember this! And I still know a lot of the lyrics by heart.... Yes, the first rap song ALTHOUGH they say Blondie (Rapture) was actually the very first. But I think these guys were first. :) They sampled Good Times by Chic btw. LJ
The first rap song that was commercially released was King Tim lll (Personality Jock) by the Fatback Band. Released In March of ‘79 vs. this one ,September’79. It was however the b side of You’re My Candy Sweet and this one was an a side,so that’s where the confusion started as to which record came first…
This was considered to be the first Rap song back in 1979, and yes rap lyrics don’t have to be deep to be good. Rap was pretty much just fun after this, up until a song called “ The Message “ by Grandmaster Flash And the Furious Five dropped in 1982”, if you want to hear the first “ deep “ rap song then you much check that out. It literally woke people up and brought a lot of issues about the ghetto to the forefront…
Original rap! What follows later is all about violence and disrespecting women. This is when you’d do Break Dancing; my brother was great at it and won competitions but dang, dropping to floor, spinning on your back and all the fancy footwork, had to appreciate that.
Part Disco transitioning into Rap. Full band behind rapping. They were the first imo and this was the first album, @ 9 yrs old that I purchased with my own money and made my own choice. I bought 3 total albums that day. The other 2 FYI were Michael Jackson, off the wall album and Chic! And just for more info: I'm now a 53 year old, white guy, who's been a rock drummer since '84. 😮
While this is not the very first rap song, it's the first one to be properly released on vinyl record. Coke la Rock with Kool Herc MC are thought to be the first hip hop artists in 1973. Gil Scott-Heron is thought to be the father of rap, doing unconventional spoken word tracks as early as 1970. Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight didn't release until 1979 meaning they had most of a decade to hear the style and work on it. While many other NY'ers who rapped were just MC'ing parties and making mix tapes, they were in the studio making history and paving the way for others.
Hey, what's up my dear. Play it !!! THIS IS THE ORIGINAL. 🛑 Stop!!! If you want to know where they sample this . Check out Chic's original Good times!!!😊
So. I was raised in The Bronx. I was 11 when this song came out. No this is not where rap and Hip-Hop started. They're from Jersey and Hip Hop started in The Bronx. The second guy who rapped bit his rhymes off of Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers. They were the first rap group to go mainstream. But Hip Hop was around long before this song came out.
Oh and by the way. The bass line for Rapper's Delight is a song called Good Times by Chic. Chic wound up suing Them and their record label, Sugar Hill Records for using their song without Chic's permission. But the song IS iconic in Hip Hop, although most of the legends in Hip-Hop don't have any love for the Sugar Hill Gang. Including many of their label mates
You mentioning samples made me think of the fun fact of how this song is technically a ‘interpolation’ of Le Chic’s “Good Times”. I believe Sugar Hill Gang even had to pay royalties because of this.
Mia, I asked you to do Kelly Clarkson, He didn't have to be, I'm sorry that's not the name. The whole thing to watch is Kelly Clarkson Piece by piece on American idol. PLEASE do it!! From something you told us on your last live , this a special request.
Kids, it's very important for you to reach back to your musical roots because of the attacks on the genres created by the black community. It appears that a lot of other ethnic communities are seeking to lay claim to the things that are organic to our culture. So don't stop digging into your musical history. Love you, kids. You can't just allow people to bully you out of your own culture 💯
This song as stolen in a lot of ways. Grandmaster Cas did the verses, Chic did the music. Sugarhill Gang is just fraudulent. They know it when you see them squirm in interviews. At least Blondie and Pet Shop Boys did their own rhymes and lyrics.
63 year old white music geek here, and when this was first released I was so psyched to introduce my friends to this song it was over the top, THE FIRST rap song, no foul language no degrading of ladies, and I believe I gave it a 95 out of 100 it had great lyrics and the beat was amazing and easy to dance to .
God bless you great reaction 😅.
FAR from the first, just the first to go mainstream. Noah by The Jubalires was the first in the 30's it wasn't called rap then but by today's standards it was.
Hell even the song Uranium Fever by Elton Britt could be considered proto-rap... That was released in the 50's
They had so much fun! We used to dance to rap. ❤The music was sampled from Chic’s “ Good Times”. ❤
The first breakout hip-hop song! Even though that's 1979, it still cranks today! Classic! Great reaction Mia!❤🎤🎤🎤
See , I Knew It Had To Be Something Like That If Not Close . Definitely Agree w You On This One Mike , Thank You ♡
I was 15 Years Old when Rapper's Delight was released in 1979. It was the First Rap song that was played on the Radio. I learned all the Words. The Full 14 Minute version was played at Dances and Skating Rinks. Everyone 50 and over memorized the words.
YES, first rap song played on the radio, EVER, and it blew up. Everyone I knew learned every word!!
Notice he says near the beginning: "Now what you hear is not a test, we're just rapping to the beat."
He had to explain it because this was the first rap record other than kids just messing around hanging out.
Without them you might not have rap of today. True pioneers. Great reaction, mia. And princess is the cutest.
Dang , It's Crazy To Think About It Like That . Wow ! Thank You Doc , You're So Sweet ♡
The sample is the instrumental of the huge disco cut "Good Times" by the group Chic. They are just rhyming over that track. Hip Hop had already started, even had a couple of dedicated Black college radio stations on the east coast. But this was the first big single/record. The MC here, Master Gee, was one of those well known college radio DJs.
I knew every single word back in the day… 40+ years later and I still remember a lot of them! Great song and reaction!
Iconic group....This was commercially the start of it all.
Hi Mia, YES, This is where Hip-Hop & Rap had it's beginnings!!!
Probably the first sample ever. This is 1979 and the song sampled was Chic's Good Times.
This was the “beginning” of Rap Music…and it gradually became a universal phenomenon! In my humble opinion..the “greatest” Rap 1980’s-1990’s…. Most of the Rap today seems X-rated and not for young people..and seems to take positivity out of the Art of Rap…love the Reaction MEE❤GEE 💯❤️🙏🏻
Definitely Felt Like I Was In A Time Machine , It Took Me Back And I Was Never There To Begin With . I Respect Your Opinion , You Have A Point Michael . Great Feedback As Always , I Appreciate You ♡
Yes, there's nothing quite like the classy old-fashioned family-friendly rap lyrics like "he can't satisfy you with his little worm / but I can bust you up with my super sperm".
I remember these guys. Everytime I hear it i wanna groove.
4:15 I believe it was. It was the first of it's kind. Nothing else was playing on the radio like it.
I was 19 when this song blew up the radio. 44 yrs later this makes me feel like a teenager ago. 🔥
Lil Mia thanks for doing this one for me ❤❤❤ My mom introduced me to this fabulousness ❤❤ Me and my mom never missed an episode of Soul Train❤❤❤ We bumped this at every school dance and Noone was sitting down 😂
@@shacklord absolutely
This was Fun Rap Lyrics and being braggadocios about your Rhymes!!!!! It just gets better and better!!!!
Great reaction Mia once again yes this is where it started this is hip hop back when MC's would rap about any and everything not violence sex or drugs it was all about music and rhymes 80s and early 90s rap was te greatest Era of hip hop
We loved these guys in high school. Bunch of white boys but we dug this. It was different.
This WAS the begining of Hiphop👍
I've heard this , but never seen the video , so yet again you are bringing something new my way! Hi Princess!🙂
Love This Feedback , Thank You Paul ♡
Never forget the sample. Good Times, Chic. Genius.xx
This song is why it's called hip hop. People would call the radio station and ask to play that hip hop song.
This came on the heels of disco...disco had died and hiphop took off!!!!
I was a teenager when this song came out!! It was the Jam!! First Rap song that came out. I remember all the house parties that played this song. Fire 🔥 and didn’t nobody got into a fight or started shooting. We were too busy working up a sweat!!!
It's just a non stop flow it's amazing. I love it
Miaa outstanding content Thank you The Sugar Hill Gang broke Through for Rap Big hit I
Darlin thanks so much for this reaction. 1981 Senior Follies , I had to teach a football team to roller skate on stage to this song. Great memories. I’m sitting here chair dancing. My grandkids think I’m crazy. The root of rap for sure 🤓🦉❤️
We locked ourselves in the dorm room and played this record over and over until we knew every single word.
I love, love, love seeing you enjoy and appreciate the classics from my era.
Happy New Year 💗✌️
Yep from my home city, the BX, where it all started.
Classic!
I was 12, and I bought the 12-inch single, I think the first 12-inch single I ever owned. This was great.
I was in my senior year of high school when "Rapper's Delight" was released. All of my friends and I LOVED it! We learned the words and tore up the floor at the parties when this song was played. Such great memories!
4:17..Right on, Mia..song's been sampled so much they probably made more $$ off the royalties than the actual record ( Songs, Ads, Movies) I do recall it only made it to 36 on the Billboard, but became a huge dance club hit nationwide and still stayed in heavy radio rotation for the rest of the year.
This was from a show called Soap Factory Disco Show from 1979-the show ran from 1978-1980 & very much had a Soul Train vibe. Certainly the first big rap hit-Gil Scott Heron had effectively been doing rap in a poetry style for many years before this without chart success. It got to number 3 here in the UK when I was 3 years old & was a big hit all over Europe, though surprisingly not so big in the US.
House parties with no shooting with young people just having a good time!
Very first rap on a record. Before this all crews were live and from NYC only. Disco predated and created rap. City kids created rap because we were nit allowed to go to discos.
They were actually my first and second concert in 1980 and 1981. They were magical and brought a lot of entertainment to their concert
This was my first ever karaoke song. Funny thing is, the KJ played the long version and I've only practiced on the short version.
That was the first time most people had ever heard rap, and at the time it was just as groundbreaking as the sound of the first synthesizers.
This is a important record.
This is actually a sample too from the song “good times “ by Chic
This is a shortened version, the original is nearly 15 min. You should check out "Apache " and "Eighth Wonder"
They were some Amazing times! ❤️
This is basically the break from "Good Times" by Chic, written by Nile Rogers. The first big hit rap song (as opposed to the first one ever recorded) was created by jackin' tunes.
To me back in the day, this was the birth of rap
Happy rap! The Sugar Hill Gang was produced by Sylvia Robinson. You should check out her music!
I remember when this song came out. Back then it was the full 14 minute version that each emcee had 3 verses if memory serves me. This was the original commercial rap song and some purists like to down them since they were from New Jersey and not a central part of the hip hop scene but like other commenters said below, without this first commercial success the genre would have not moved forward. After this I always think about the "Message" from Grand Master Flash & the 5, "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow" and "Magic's Wand" by Whodini along with other segue groups like UTFO, Boogie Boys, Treacherous Three, etc. Big ups to Grandmaster Caz as I believe it was said that he may have "contributed" to Big Bank Han's lyrics.
I remember this! And I still know a lot of the lyrics by heart.... Yes, the first rap song ALTHOUGH they say Blondie (Rapture) was actually the very first. But I think these guys were first. :) They sampled Good Times by Chic btw. LJ
The first rap song that was commercially released was King Tim lll (Personality Jock) by the Fatback Band. Released In March of ‘79 vs. this one ,September’79. It was however the b side of You’re My Candy Sweet and this one was an a side,so that’s where the confusion started as to which record came first…
We are family is the guitar sample from sister sledges huge disco hit the year before🤘❤️
Kids heard the song (with that “hip hop” bar) and would go into record stores asking for that “hip hop song”. That’s how the name came about.
This was considered to be the first Rap song back in 1979, and yes rap lyrics don’t have to be deep to be good. Rap was pretty much just fun after this, up until a song called “ The Message “ by Grandmaster Flash And the Furious Five dropped in 1982”, if you want to hear the first “ deep “ rap song then you much check that out. It literally woke people up and brought a lot of issues about the ghetto to the forefront…
Pioneers, you nailed it! Facts on the truth that the industry should give props. They were unfortunately ripped off, but that’s another story.
Original rap! What follows later is all about violence and disrespecting women. This is when you’d do Break Dancing; my brother was great at it and won competitions but dang, dropping to floor, spinning on your back and all the fancy footwork, had to appreciate that.
I loooove this song
Part Disco transitioning into Rap. Full band behind rapping.
They were the first imo and this was the first album, @ 9 yrs old that I purchased with my own money and made my own choice. I bought 3 total albums that day. The other 2 FYI were Michael Jackson, off the wall album and Chic! And just for more info: I'm now a 53 year old, white guy, who's been a rock drummer since '84. 😮
While this is not the very first rap song, it's the first one to be properly released on vinyl record. Coke la Rock with Kool Herc MC are thought to be the first hip hop artists in 1973. Gil Scott-Heron is thought to be the father of rap, doing unconventional spoken word tracks as early as 1970. Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight didn't release until 1979 meaning they had most of a decade to hear the style and work on it. While many other NY'ers who rapped were just MC'ing parties and making mix tapes, they were in the studio making history and paving the way for others.
Hi Ms. Mia, What a classic, a very good classic.. ♠W.G.
Ground Zero for rap commercially.
Hey, what's up my dear. Play it !!! THIS IS THE ORIGINAL. 🛑 Stop!!! If you want to know where they sample this . Check out Chic's original Good times!!!😊
I dressed as Big Bank Hank for Halloween when I was a kid lol
Love This 😭❤️
This was when rap started commercially. But rap had been around at parties on the block.
So. I was raised in The Bronx. I was 11 when this song came out. No this is not where rap and Hip-Hop started. They're from Jersey and Hip Hop started in The Bronx. The second guy who rapped bit his rhymes off of Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers. They were the first rap group to go mainstream. But Hip Hop was around long before this song came out.
Oh and by the way. The bass line for Rapper's Delight is a song called Good Times by Chic. Chic wound up suing Them and their record label, Sugar Hill Records for using their song without Chic's permission. But the song IS iconic in Hip Hop, although most of the legends in Hip-Hop don't have any love for the Sugar Hill Gang. Including many of their label mates
Hip hop used to be about fun and partying. That went away in the early 90s
Hi Mia!! I was wondering what happened to you!😀 This is a great song!
And they didn’t degrade women. I think I remember this.
Great reaction as always!!! ❤❤❤
💯💯💯(no sexual overtones or violence) ❤️🙏🏻
Right !! Just Clean Flows . Thank You Tina ♡
I really wish you listened to the full 15 minute version!
Definitely the first😂😂
I'm Loving The Support I'm Seeing From You Chef , Thank You ♡
You mentioning samples made me think of the fun fact of how this song is technically a ‘interpolation’ of Le Chic’s “Good Times”. I believe Sugar Hill Gang even had to pay royalties because of this.
You seriously just watched the birth of hip hop.
All the kids would rap this song on the bus on the way to school.
I was not even born yet but dang that song is cool 😂
When disco handed over the baton to hip-hop
Hi Princess!!😀
And Sandra Bullock knows the words
Wow , That’s News To Me Chris ! That Just Made Me Adore Her Even More . Phenomenal Actress 💕☺️
@@DoIttMiaaaa There is a video of her on Jonathan Ross
Yea, we were there in 79. Chooooooooon.😂
They didn't have to resort to violence and foul language to get their music out there.
The original rappers/hip hop artists brought to you by their own generation - Boomers!
Oh by the way - you're welcome 😁
Check out why have I lost you by cameo ft Wayne Cooper
This was just fun music. Do we have that anymore?
Mia, I asked you to do Kelly Clarkson, He didn't have to be, I'm sorry that's not the name. The whole thing to watch is Kelly Clarkson Piece by piece on American idol. PLEASE do it!! From something you told us on your last live , this a special request.
This is a great song!!!
@@tinakeith5822 THANK you Mama Bear! 😀
Before technology..lol
NO! There were plenty of hip hop songs prior to this. This was just the first on wax.
Kids, it's very important for you to reach back to your musical roots because of the attacks on the genres created by the black community. It appears that a lot of other ethnic communities are seeking to lay claim to the things that are organic to our culture. So don't stop digging into your musical history. Love you, kids. You can't just allow people to bully you out of your own culture 💯
I this kinda rap music it's not nasty or distasteful
Mia could you please react to Todd Rundgren isaw the light in your eyes you will like it
U are beautiful mia
Thank You ♡
its good song ! if you want GWEN GUTHRIE REACTION AIN'T NOTHIN GOIN ON BUT THE RENT
yeah, now do this version... ua-cam.com/video/v--znY7yk84/v-deo.html
Wasn’t it like one of the first rap songs
Nope ! the first hip hop record was King Tim the 3rd and the Fatback Band
I’ve heard this be sampled is terrible grammar. Sort it out!
This song as stolen in a lot of ways. Grandmaster Cas did the verses, Chic did the music. Sugarhill Gang is just fraudulent. They know it when you see them squirm in interviews. At least Blondie and Pet Shop Boys did their own rhymes and lyrics.