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Old 06-20-2010, 02:11 PM  
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Originally Posted by justinsain View Post
I wouldn't call that RAP and no artist has any real relevance until they have made the music charts in the US.

Here is the first artist to make the Billboard top 100 with a RAP song in 1981.

I challenge anyone to find an earlier one
That thing wasn't rap but some bizzarre Euro-craziness that made no sense whatsoever.

The first one I heard was the Sugar Hill Gang with "Rapper's Delight" and that was 1979. Wasn't that the first commercially suuccessful rap record?
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