By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Anthony Barbosa/Getty Images The Englewood, New Jersey-based Sugarhill Gang (pictured) released 'Rapper's Delight,' the genre's first Billboard Top 40 record, on this day in 1979. This song, which Grandmaster Caz of The Cold Crush Brothers wrote, is regarded as one of the early examples of hip hop and is associated […]

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