When Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight” became the first hip-hop song to land on the Billboard Hot 100, it opened the door for the 1980s to be a massive decade for the new genre. Beginning as a humble music style birthed from the record-scratching DJs in New York in the 1970s, hip-hop would transform […]
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