Hip-hop legends of "Rapper's Delight" fame, the Sugarhill Gang, performed at Nashville's intimate AB Hillsboro Village venue. The still touring touring quartet is four decades removed from an era ...
Englewood, New Jersey's own groundbreaking pioneers are coming home! Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) presents ...
Wonder Mike (né Michael Wright) had been rapping for just two months when Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson changed his life. It was 1979 and Mike had just joined a group called Sound on ...
Can you believe that Hip-Hop actually turns 50 this year? It just doesn’t seem that long ago when DJ Kool Herc birthed Hip-Hop when he held a party in his building’s community room on Sedgwick Avenue ...
Hip-hop pioneers and NJ natives the Sugarhill Gang will perform at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, N.J., on January 10.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Sugarhill Gang, the legendary hip-hop group that pioneered American rap with their 1979 hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” will perform in downtown Grand Rapids this weekend as part ...
It was 1979 when Sugarhill Gang first uttered the words “I said a hip, hop, the hippie to the hippie to the hip, hip, hop – a you don’t stop the rock.” And they haven’t stopped boogieing to the beat ...
On May 9, 2025, East Coast rap icons The Sugarhill Gang will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the groundbreaking pinnacle of success for their 1980 hit "Rapper's Delight" at the intimate AB Hillsboro ...
Three Rivers Festival will feature nine nights of live entertainment at Headwaters Park. The Fort Wayne Newspapers Concert Series was announced Friday. The Sugarhill Gang kicks things off July 12.
Rodgers' "Good Times" guitar groove was later sampled in the Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," widely considered the first crossover hip-hop song. Originally broadcast in 1996. This is ...
The roots of hip-hop might be firmly planted at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx, but its branches clearly extend into North Jersey. On Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new while ...