AchievementSeptember 1979· music
"Rapper's Delight"
The Sugarhill Gang's single becomes the first rap record to reach the pop charts, taking hip-hop to the masses.
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- builds on·EventHip-hop is born in the Bronx
Six years after the Bronx block parties, hip-hop reached vinyl and the charts.