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"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang; it is widely acknowledged as the first hip hop single. Like many songs from the time, "Rapper's Delight" was rapped over the instrumental track of a disco hit (played by the group Positive Force ), in this case Chic's "Good Times". The following year, an album was released with the song on it. In spite of a few more minor hits, The Sugarhill Gang quickly faded into obscurity. Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers claims that Sugarhill Gang member Big Bank Hank used his rhymes on Rapper's Delight.
To honor the song that many believe started it all, Erick Sermon , Redman, and Keith Murray mixed their own version in 1998.
The Spanish summer hit, Aserejé ( 2002) (released as The Ketchup SongThe Ketchup Song is the English title of the song Aserej which was an international hit record in 2002. The song is performed in a mixture of English and Spanish, described as "Spanglish". The song is based upon the first few lines of the 1979 rap hit " R in Germany and United Kingdom), sung by Las KetchupLas Ketchup is a 3- girl group consisting of Lola, Pilar, and Lucia Munoz from Cordoba in Andalucia, Spain. In the summer of 2002 they had a major flamenco Europop fussion hit with Aserej (released as The Ketchup Song in the UK and other countries), which, tells the story of a boy who asks a DJ to play the "song he desires most". Since he cannot produce the correct title, he mispronounces the first lines of Rapper's Delight: "I say the hip-hop, the hip..." which becomes the meaningless refrain "Aserejé ja dejé...".
The song was used in the final stages of an imaginative HondaHonda Motor Co. Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha is a Japanese manufacturer of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and scooters. They also make ATVs, electrical generators, marine engines, and lawn and garden equipment. With more than 14 million internal combust commerical/advert in the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly in 2003/2004.
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