This is how it was in 70's when white, black, and latin all made great music together, Just look at KC and the Sunshine Band. Glad I grew up in the 70's.

This is original rap. Good vibes, no cursing or degrading lyrics. Just good times for ALL . Everyone smiling having fun. All race, creed, color didn’t matter. ❤️👍🏻

This was the first song to bring Rap into the mainstream. It's not gangsta rap. That came many years later. This was popular across all genres and recieved airplay on stations that had never heard of it. American Bandstand brought it to millions of white teenagers.

Ahhh…The Sugar Hill Gang. Ole school! Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn…🎼 We knew every word back in the day and there was every color, singing together! 🥰

The year was 1979 and yes this song was considered by many as the first rap song. We loved the silliness to the words as well as a great base line. Fun to groove your body to! (I had the vinyl record back in the day.)

Are you kidding me? This takes me straight back to my roller skating days in the80s! All my friends wore this record out learning the whole song. We were mesmerized! You just put the biggest smile on my face right now!

The background that's being sampled is "Good Times " by Chic

It was 1979 when The Sugar Hill Gang released “Rapper's Delight,” a song widely considered to be the first hip-hop track

Rap on the scene. My white friends loved this just as much as our Hispanic friends , etc. We were quite unified back then. I don't think it will ever come back but I'm glad I got to experience what unity is supposed to look like. Great reaction. The 80s was a time of unification for the most part. We wanted the world to stay that way but it hasn't and more divided than ever. You all must see our unity to understand what it looks like and through music what it can feel like. Even in church, there's a difference when there's true unity and even unity was in the church back then.

You're witnessing rappers introducing Rap music at the disco. I remember this newness at our own local discotheques. You should checkout THE MESSAGE by The Furious Five and Grandmaster Flash.

The music was from Chic's song, "Good Times." A studio band recreated an instrumental version and they rapped over it.

I'm 54 from London England. This is the FIRST record I ever brought! It was a 45, this is an absolute CLASSIC! I can still almost sing it word for word! LOVE IT! Best Rap song ever.

"Rapper's Delight" dropped when I was in eighth grade. I remember how some of the other kids tried to remember the words to varying degrees of success so they could rap the song themselves. There was no internet back then to make looking up lyrics easy. The sample is from "Good Times" by Chic. Listening to it again just now I'm struck by how some of the phrases they dropped became tropes in the decades since. Yes, it's the song that kicked off rap as a genre. The opening line provided the name for hip-hop as well, but that name didn't catch on until the late eighties.

Friends, don't forget to mention this was rapped over the instrumental breaks of Chic's "Good Times", one of the biggest funk songs ever made. This is why the beat is mindblowing

We roller skated to this way back in the day! Good Laaawd, i was 7!🤣🤣 we knew every word, and even made up a dance to it, and danced while on skates! This was the first mainstream rap song, and we lost our minds! ( in a good way)💕💕🕺🕺💃💃

How is it possible that you guys haven’t heard this?🤪🤪🤪

This was when rap music was FUN! You've got to check out a rapper called Kurtis Blow, another pioneer of the genre. The Breaks and Christmas Rappin' are his most famous ones. BANGERS!!!

Back when there was no social media, no identity politics, no cultural appropriation, no wokism, no helicopter parents. Life was just so simple. Everybody hanging out together just enjoying good music. I miss that era so much, we had the best music.

The first rap song I ever heard! 💯 At the skating rink and everyone loved it!

"Rapper's Delight" is the first rap record to have commercial success on the Billboard charts. It is credited as the first rap record. Although, "King Tim III" by The Fatback Band may be the actual first rap record to chart.

This Was the First Mainstream Rap Song. Everyone learned the Words to this Song. This was the short version that you reacted to. Please react to the Full 14 Minute Version to Rappers Delight. This song was played at all the School Dances and Parties and at the Skating Rinks. The 14 Min Version was played at Dances and Skating Rinks etc.

I remember my brother bringing the 12" single version of this home. Wish I still had that thing! :D

I love the energy in this and the fact that he was including people of all colors getting together to have a good time, we need more music like this!

The flows are so smooth. This is how you rock a crowd.

Yes! This was the first Hip Hop Rap song that came out. I'm going to be 59 years old this summer and even now I'm rapping along with this song, word for word. Thank you guys for reacting to it. I love you two love birds. Stay blessed and Stay True.✌️😎🎶🤘💯 and for Mel 🌹❣️🙏

The backing track is sampled from Chic's Good TIme's written by Niles Rodgers and has influenced many other songs through the years.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 gave the first hint of Street Rap with a great song called "The Message". It is a true testament of things to come in the Rap Scene.

Ahhh yeah! We ALL loved this and we all sang along. I believe it was used in the Wedding Singer…elderly woman busts out singing it.

This is where the term “hip hop” came from. No one knew the name of the song or the band, so in the record store everyone asked for that “hip hop” song. 😁

Love it! Definitely takes me back! My favorite by them was always 8th Wonder..I used to rap it to all my kids while they were growing up,still do,lol..Apache is another good one by them(if you ever watched Fresh Prince of Bel -Air there is a scene in an episode where Will and Carlton dance to this song at a strip club,hilarious!) also try out Freak A Zoid-Midnight Starr and Space Cowboy-Jonzun Crew..Keep On Rockin'

It is 1979. I am 11 years old, white and growing up in the suburbs. Still, when I heard this I knew something was just planted. From this grew 1980's rap which provided the roots for todays music.

I am 65 and I was in my early teens when this song came out and I loved it. I am white and back then all races party together and just jammed on all kinds of music. Great times and great music

Disco era entering rap era,The transition was crazy...I WAS THERE👊🏿,you'll see it in alot of music videos 70s to 80s

Back when Rap required skill and provided entertainment value. 👵🏼 💃🏽🕺

61 years old here and I have always known this as the first RAP song, and gave always loved it, you pretty much said it all yourselves.

First rap song ever made with 6 minutes straight with no breaks in between! Sugar hill gang, rappers delight...

This was the roots of rap. I grew up through this era. This was when rap was best, when it was LEGITIMATELY creative and meant something. This is when rap was fun, told a story, and was real. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way someone bastardized it into the garbage it is today, that glorifies violence, alcohol abuse, elicit sex, elicit drug use, and degradation of females. Gone are the days of Sugarhill gang, Kool Moe Dee, Newcleus, Grandmaster Flash and the furious five, etc.

Love you guys! We all need to remember that music really can bring us together!

This was the first rap song to actually go mainstream and have a music video so this was ground breaking for 1979.. My pops said rap was a thing in N.Y in the early to late 70s in his teen years. People would rap all the time on the block! Shout out to Sugar Hill Gang for taking rap to the next level!

This was the first rap song many of us Gen-Xers heard. I scored the vinyl from a friend, swapped for some fireworks, God I miss the 70's.

Apparently, from whence the term 'hip-hop' came.

Check out Blondie: Rapture, if you haven't already. Peace

This is where the name “hip hop” music comes from.

I'm 61 years old and I remember the first time it came on the radio. It was a long rap album. Nobody had heard anything like this before. It opened a whole new kind of music for life. I remember every single word by heart. I started laughing when you said they look like they're in a disco. They were on soul train show. Now I know you heard of soul train awards to this day. All classic singers. Temptations, Gladys knight and the pips etc. American bandstand was the show everyone looked at until soul train came along. Black people had a show of their own.

This was 1979 and the first rap song that became an international hit and started a new genre of music "Rap" that became mainstream. This is the song that started it all..."Rapper's Delight" by The Sugar Hill Gang. Later there will be other rappers like Curtis Blow, song "These Are the Breaks", Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, song "White Lines", Run DMC, song "Walk This Way", "Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch" song "Good Vibrations" just to name a few. The rest as they say is history.

exactly right. they were the 1st to do the rap. I was in grade school when this rap came out and I'm old.

1980. I was a senior in high school. We knew ALL of the words. Still do!!

I am a 50 some year old and i can still remember the summer thos came out. Bought the LP and me and my cousin spent 2 days listening and reciting this until we knrw it by heart. Even today, i still know ot word for word. The power of music!

We used to skate to this and “the message” at the skating rink every Friday and Saturday night…great times.

Always loved this song. The 70s were great and I always thought this was the first rap song and it was great to dance to!

YES! When this song first came out, the Sugar Hill Gang was promoting it and performed it live at my Roller Rink in Brooklyn, NY; (Roll A Palace on Sheepshead Bay Road; I Lived in there 😂). I think back often about how fortunate I am to grow up when I did and WHERE I did❤️. I’m 54 and I still Jam Skate and play this music 😊😊😊

It was certainly the frst rap song I ever heard. It still stands up today as a great song, even with the disco beat.

The first rap song I ever heard on the radio. I was in the 6th grade waiting in line to get on the yellow school bus home. There was a car blasting this out there window and I couldn't believe what I was hearing! First of all we didn't blast music out of an car at an elementary school back then and the rest was history. Now I'm in my 50s and I'm a grandmother.

I’m new to your channel but I love the way you are going back from the beginning. This was this first RAP song.

1979,,,,,,our first taste of hip hop,,,,,we had no idea how big it would get back then

This has got to be "The Godfather of Rap songs" !!! Everybody was jamming to this when it hit the airwaves !! 🤘

Yes yes yes guys I still love this song! This was the 70's & I still remember me & my friends dancing & partying to this song! Now I am telling my age, but I still love this song today as much as I did then! Brings back memories! Love, love love your reaction!

I was 17 years old when this song came out , and I will tell you we had less race issues then, than we do now. It was the live and let live generation. The top 40 every week had black artists , white artists, instrumentals, We have went backwards since them days.

This song and Blondie's Rapture broke the whole idea into the mainstream. Early rap was pure talent and musical. It was unifying rather than dividing. Everybody, even rockers, loved it.

The original is near 15mins long,but this is the first to get any recognition and was the launching point for party rap,then hardcore, then gangsta/reality rap in the decades to come

Back in the 70s we were rocking, what a decade for music - you cannot touch it lol

Those were the days! No race issues at all in our crowds. The music was so much fun. Skating Rinks were the bomb and we were there 3 nights a week to skate to all of this music. So much fun. We had a 6 pack shuffle skate team. Some of the best times of my life to this music. Late 70's early 80's. So much. Check out The Time, Prince, Grandmaster Flash, and the furious five.

1980 in Berlin, everywhere this song played up and down. And we were fascinated by it. That was our Hip Hop/Breakdance time.

I was a teenager in high school in Germany when this song came out in 1979 and it was a smash hit for a very long time. Those days, we carried a boombox (cassette tape) everywhere we walked, to school, football practice locker rooms, etc. This song was played at every school dance for years. Everyone loved this song. Many think that this was the first rap song, but a few months prior to this release, Fatback released King Tim III and it too, was played at every dance. Rap was new and it was a nice addition to the Disco years. This song will be forever in my memories during some of the best years of my life. There was six of us that hung out together, 3 white, 3 black and we called ourselves the Oreo Gang. Of all the songs we played when carrying our boomboxes, no other song was played more than this one in the three years I was there. Peace to all

Man, those 3 brothers were on point, just dominated! Excellent control by all 3, excellent tone, lyrics that made sense and were hilarious........something I never thought someone could RAP to, now c'mon!! Yeah, those 3 were fantastic and each one was different from one another so this made this masterpiece THAT much better.......this is how you knock one out of the universe........

This was a huuuuge hit back in the day..!! Lol. WE ROCKED this song on dance floor!High School dazzze!

You haven't lived until you've been in a disco with a couple hundred people in bell-bottoms and platform shoes, guys included, and more than half the crowd knows most of the words to this song and they're just belting it out as they dance. People always say disco sucks but I'm a heavy Rock chick and I loved my disco days! It was so much fun to go out dancing night after night to this stuff.

This was the first rap song I heard, at a dance in 1979. The song they sampled is Good Times by Chic, and they dj started with that and mixed Rapper's Delight in and I was hooked. My friends and I wrote down the whole song (it's about 12 minutes or so), and to this day, I still remember every line. I was rapping just now 😄. And yeah, I got tired 😄. This is when rap was just fun, my kind of rap. True classic.

I had a great teacher in 5th grade, Mrs. Drew. She let kids bring in records to play in class. One of the other boys brought this in, and she let the whole song play. My first exposure to rap, loved it. Never have forgotten that day!

So many drops came from this song! First rap song I ever heard. Late 70’s.

No Jamaican Toasting is about 15 - 20 years before this, America actually took inspiration from it.

I remember roller skating to this song at the Skateland in the 80s and everybody would get on the floor when this song came on. The 70s were lit when it came to music.

You are the sweetest cpl. I hope you have ten million kids. The world needs more of you guys x

Aaaah memories back when rap was GOOD!!!!...that was either at the TV show American Bandstand or Soul Train kids.

I used to dollar skate to this song back in the early 80’s. We ALL loved it!

My friends and I were 12 yrs old when this came out, and we took PRIDE in memorizing every word of this epic song!

My son told ne that there were bo rappers in my day. I introduced him to Sugarhill Gabg. The original rappers free style with only a 💓

I heard this song while serving in the Navy in Okinawa. My roommate from the Bronx went home and came back with this song. Had the whole barracks dancing. We had some serious stereo equipment that will blow the windows. It was so cool

This was the first vinyl record I ever owned. I got it when it 1st released & I still LOVE this song today!!! That brought back some great memories, thanks guys. 😁 You made me smile tonight, I really needed that! 😊

Yes I remember when these guys first came out. I use to play this record when I worked on the air in radio back then. It was fun!

Haha love your reaction. I’m 54 years old and recall as a young boy this being the first mainstream rap song I ever heard, and I love it to this day.

WHAT, you never heard this, this is what brought rapping to the world!. I heard this when i was like 5 yrs old and that was 1980.

oh man.....How well I remember!!!!!! We all stood around with our mouths opened when this first played.

You alluded to one of the most favorable points of the Disco era, it brought everyone together!! People from every race were having the time of their lives dancing to the same great disco tunes, no matter where you were!

Welcome aboard, youngsters! We rocked to this jam , back when it first played on the radio. A party wasn't a party until this was played by the DJ.

THAT USE TO BE MY JAM BACK IN THE DAY, THANK YOU I NEEDED TO HEAR THAT PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE

I saw these guys do this song about 20 years ago in an impromptu performance! Its one of my favorite moments of my life

This is the song that kicked off the hip hop revolution. Period. End of story. There is no other.

Yup the first... Now it's time to listen to some Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash. In those days there were no issues we all partied Together. 70' & early 80's was fun and love. 2000 music got crazy. Nice voice Mel.

Huge party song. Everybody loved it. We had a 12 inch 'disco-version' at our fraternity house, and wore it out. Guaranteed to fill the dance floor.

That's right, come together with laughter, love, and dance!!!

This came out when I was in the 9th grade and it is still one of my favorite songs. Thank you for reacting.

This one of the original rap songs, when rap was fun and cool 😎 best times ever. Wish you were there.

They visited Dominican Republic in 1980 thanks to this hit. We were crazy in DR when this song came out. A classic !!

YES 70S. 1ST RAP I had that album, probably still do. I knew every word. I'm an old 59 year white woman. Lol. First rap

I was 9yrs old when this song came out and all the kids on the playground new every word, and this was the suburbs.

I was in High School when this song came out. Rexing at the roller rink to this song was a blast. Truly the first rap song.

I was 5 years old when this came out ('80) and my entire life, anytime this song came on, my mom had to tell the story of me singing this. 😂

⭐️ YES YES YES, SHAWN, this was ONE of the very FIRST RAP songs!!! ⭐️ ❤️ 🥰❤️ S and M HIT SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️ 💕 With all my love, always ~ Laura 💕

We need these places again! That was my generation we just had a great time! This is a Great Masterpiece of Rap music!❤️