Editing Rapper's Delight (section)

{{short description|1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2014}}
{{Infobox song
| name          = Rapper's Delight
| image         = Rapper's Delight (Long version) by Sugarhill Gang US 12-inch vinyl red label.png
| alt           = 
| caption       = A pressing of the 1979 US 12-inch single not crediting Chic's song
| type          = single
| artist        = [[the Sugarhill Gang]]
| album         = [[Sugarhill Gang (album)|Sugarhill Gang]]
| released      = {{Start date|1979|9|16}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Lynch|first1=Joe|title=35 Years Ago, Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' Made Its First Chart Appearance|url=http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/1525661/|access-date=February 24, 2015|magazine=Billboard|date=October 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224085412/http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/1525661/|archive-date=February 24, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
| recorded      = {{Start date|1979|8|2}}
| studio        = 
| venue         = 
| genre         = 
* [[Old-school hip-hop]]
* [[disco]]
* [[funk]]
| length        = 
* {{duration|m=3|s=55}} (single version)
* {{duration|m=4|s=55}} (album version)
* {{duration|m=5|s=5}} (7" single version)
* {{duration|m=6|s=30}} (12" short version)
* {{duration|m=7|s=7}} (long single version)
* {{duration|m=14|s=37}} (12" long version)
| label         = [[Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)|Sugar Hill]]
| writer        = 
* [[Bernard Edwards]]
* [[Nile Rodgers]]
* [[Sylvia Robinson]] (uncredited)
* [[Big Bank Hank|Henry Jackson]] (uncredited)
* [[Wonder Mike|Michael Wright]] (uncredited)
* [[Master Gee (musician)|Guy O'Brien]] (uncredited)
* [[Grandmaster Caz|Curtis Brown]] (uncredited)
* [[Alan Hawkshaw]] (uncredited)
| producer      = Sylvia Robinson
| prev_title    = 
| prev_year     = 
| next_title    = Rapper's Reprise
| next_year     = 1980
| misc          = {{External music video|{{YouTube|mcCK99wHrk0|"Rapper's Delight"}}|header=Music video}}
}}

"'''Rapper's Delight'''" is a 1979 rap song that serves as the debut single of American hip-hop trio [[the Sugarhill Gang]], produced by [[Sylvia Robinson]]. Although it was shortly preceded by the [[Fatback Band]]'s "[[King Tim III (Personality Jock)]]", "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing rap music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number one in Canada. It was a prototype for various types of [[Rapping|rap]] music. The track [[Interpolation (popular music)|interpolates]]<ref>Branch, Darrell. ''The Beat Game: The Truth About Hip-Hop Production''. Create Space. 2014</ref> [[Chic (band)|Chic]]'s "[[Good Times (Chic song)|Good Times]]", resulting in Chic's [[Nile Rodgers]] and [[Bernard Edwards]] threatening to sue [[Sugar Hill Records (rap)|Sugar Hill Records]] for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriting credits. It also interpolates [[Love De-Luxe]]'s "[[Here Comes That Sound Again]]". The track was recorded in a single take.<ref>{{cite news |title='Rapper's Delight' |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1116242 |quote=The story goes that [[Big Bank Hank]], [[Wonder Mike]], and [[Master Gee (musician)|Master Gee]] met [[Sylvia Robinson]] on a Friday and recorded "Rapper's Delight" the following Monday in just one take. |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=December 29, 2000 |access-date=2010-12-20}}</ref> There are five mixes of the song.

"Rapper's Delight" was ranked at number 251 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]" in 2010, and number 2 on [[VH1]]'s "100 Greatest Rap Songs". It is also included on [[NPR]]'s list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved in the [[National Recording Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2011 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/complete-national-recording-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Recording Registry Listing|access-date=18 December 2015|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>

In 2014, the record was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/grammy-hall-fame-class-2014|title=GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Class Of 2014|last=<!--staff-->|date=21 June 2017|website=grammy.com|access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref>