Various Artists : The Best of Sugar Hill Records
Genre: Rap	Dates: 1979-1985

Party-rocking twelve-inch singles from the label which birthed hip hop. The Sugarhill Gang you know, but they were far from Sugarhill's best MCs, so get ready for an education. Also, you might reprogram the disc's sequence, so tracks 3 and 8 close the collection and you can hear the music's early trajectory from exuberant innocence to sobering experience—a journey from which rap has never quite recovered.

Playlist: 1. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang 2. 8th Wonder - The Sugarhill Gang 3. Message, The - Grand Master Flash/The Furious Five 4. That's The Joint - Funky 4 + 1 5. Funk You Up - The Sequence 6. Scorpio - Grand Master Flash/The Furious Five 7. Break Dance-Electric Boogie - West Street Mob 8. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster/Melle Mel 9. Disco Dream - The Mean Machine 10. On The Radio - Crash Crew 11. All Night Long (Waterbed) - Kevie Kev (Waterbed Kev) 12. New York New York - Grand Master Flash/The Furious Five 13. Beat Street (from "Beat Street") - Grand Master Melle Mel/The Furious Five/Mr. Ness/Cowboy 14. Apache - Sugar Hill Gang 15. Whip It - Treacherous Three

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