The Sugarhill Gang
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Sep 14, 2026
SpencePANELIST
... synonymous with hip hop.
SpencePANELIST
You know Sugar Hill Gang, DJs cutting that up.
SpencePANELIST
You hear that, you hear that throughout the song too.
SpencePANELIST
Like very loud in there so it's not like it's something that's under.
EricHOST
there.
EricHOST
It's like we've mentioned Sugar Hill Gang.
EricHOST
You know, Rapper's Delight, dude.
EricHOST
Every song.
speaker_0HOST
This belongs on vinyl.
speaker_1HOST
And she wills it into being, assembles the Sugarhill Gang, cuts Rapper's Delight, and boom, the commercial hip-hop single exists.
speaker_0HOST
Worths it.
speaker_0HOST
Yet when we list modern music's architects, she's too often filed as a business story instead of a creative visionary.
Jazzy JeffHOST
Maybe.
Big CHOST
Was that 79? Sugar Hill Gang, yeah.
Big CHOST
Sugar Hill Gang, yeah.
Big CHOST
Was that 79? Yeah, I
Jazzy JeffHOST
think it was 79, yeah.
speaker_5AUDIENCE
me make one last point because you referenced hip-hop.
speaker_5AUDIENCE
Because when we started, listen, again, being from the Bronx, that was Sugar Hill Gang.
speaker_5AUDIENCE
or Grandmaster Flash, that was a lot of positivity, right? I mean, did that shift over time in terms of lyrical content of hip hop music? Because the early days were all about empowering each other, right?
Hiram L. SmithGUEST
Yeah, I agree to an extent.
Hiram L. SmithGUEST
And who knows if that's because of the record labels.
Hiram L. SmithGUEST
But we start to see that the lyrics changed a bit.
Hiram L. SmithGUEST
But we don't want to oversimplify this, because the Sugar Hill Gang, the message, that was a message about living in the hood, living in the streets.
Hiram L. SmithGUEST
Right? Maybe they didn't use the word nigga or bitches and hoes, but that was a very serious urban message.
SocratesHOST
I was 11, 10 years old when my, my man said, listen to this and put run DMC on.
SocratesHOST
And you know, I grew up listening to Sugar Hill Gang, you know, so I have been a part of the culture.
SocratesHOST
I was 13, rapping on local TV with a rap group called IRS.
SocratesHOST
I don't even remember what that, Ill Rhyme Sayers.
Justin MusilHOST
What type of rap song? What, what type of rap songs, Rav? What are we talking-
Karl RavechHOST
Oh, it was like the Sugar Hill Gang.
Karl RavechHOST
I mean, this was, again-
Justin MusilHOST
Ooh
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
Cal Solomon was a character that I did only for ads on my show.
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
And he is a – he was a founding member of Seminole Rap Group – The Sugar Hill Gang.
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
He was kicked out before they ever did their first performance or recorded their first song.
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
Of Rapper's Delight.
RoshaniHOST
let's go.
BrandonHOST
Number 50, the Sugarhill Gang, Apache.
RoshaniHOST
That's low.
BrandonHOST
That's Jump On
Nick NiglioHOST
Yeah.
Marni StockmanHOST
I don't know if it occurred to you when the Sugar Hill Gang showed up at the IT space.
Marni StockmanHOST
[laughs]
Nick NiglioHOST
Oh, yeah.
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