Watch live now: Maurice DuBois talks with hip-hop royalty The Sugarhill Gang about 'Rapper's Delight.'
With the meteoric success of"Rapper's Delight," CHIC co-founder Nile Rodgers threatened to sue, and was eventually credited as a writer and paid royalties. Grandmaster Caz took no action, and never got credit or royalties.To listen to the lyrics is to hear hip-hop taking its first steps into the mainstream. Wonder Mike's approach was to make a song for everyone."There 'What you hear is not a test,' I got that from the outer limits.
"Rapper's Delight," the very first hip-hop record, opened doors The Sugarhill Gang could never have imagined. Master Gee said he fully appreciates the recognition the groundbreaking record has always commanded. Master Gee, along with Wonder Mike, say they were cut out of their record's financial success. Sugar Hill Records producer Sylvia Robinson, who put the group together, is said to have not included any of the group in profits or royalties.
"We are 44 years stronger today than we were back then. We are family. We do business on a daily basis. This music has stayed around long enough for us to get it right. Look at that. That's an amazing thing," Master Gee said. "Sometimes I can't even grasp that I'm connected to it like I am, right? Because it's so, it's so meteoric. It's just, it's crazy, man. Mind blown," Master Gee said.
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