In 1979 the rap group Sugarhill Gang was formed, and in that same year, they became one of the most talked about groups in the genre of hip-hop. Their hit song “Rapper’s Delight” was released that ...

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 ...

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 will not be blasting out of a car radio. It will be hitting your eardrums live from the group that made the words famous worldwide in their 1979 hit, "Rapper's Delight." The famed rap group the ...

On today’s date, 46 years ago, Hip Hop’s first Billboard Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight,” was released by Englewood, New Jersey’s Sugarhill Gang. As one of Hip Hop’s earliest relics, this single, ...

Big Bank Hank, a member of the pioneering hip-hop group the Sugarhill Gang, has died, according to Aree Booker, a funeral director with Eternity Funeral Services in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 57.

Wonder Mike, from left, Master Gee and Hen Dogg of The Sugarhill Gang perform "Rapper's Delight" at the BET Awards on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark ...

Anyone passing by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on Thursday evening will hear these familiar lyrics: I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie/To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop a ...