Kurtis Blow is revered as rap music's first solo superstar. The combination of this new talking style of music with the back drop of the summer's biggest song "Good Times" by Chic helped "Rapper's Delight" outshine the other two dozen independent rap records released in 1979.-Jay Quan Not only did "Rapper's Delight" introduce the artform of rap to those outside of New York's boroughs, it was the first commercially successful rap record, selling 20,000 copies a day at one point. "Rapper's Delight" was the first record released on Sylvia Robinson's Sugar Hill Records, the label which would monopolize recorded rap until the mid-1980s. Although The Fatback Band released "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" a few months before, "King Tim III" was a funk song, by a funk band that featured King Tim (who was an actual MC) sharing his rapped vocals with The Fatback Band's sung vocals. Big Bank Hank a former bouncer and pizza maker borrowed rhymes from Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers as well as DJ Hollywood and Eddie Cheeba. The Gang's Wonder Mike And Master Gee were members of Englewood New Jersey's Sound On Sound and Phase II crews respectively. R&B artists and DJ's had talked in rhyme on records before, but they weren't doing it over breaks and they weren't MC's. The Sugar Hill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight" served as the "Big Bang" for the rap industry.
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