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==Legacy== ''New York Times'' columnist [[Charles M. Blow]] recalled his memories of the song, hearing it in the rural South: "It sounded revolutionary, even when I was a child, or perhaps especially when I was a child. And it was. It was fierce and fun, simultaneously foreign and familiar." He added:<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blow |first1=Charles |author1-link=Charles M. Blow |title=America's Black Pain and Joy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/20/opinion/charles-blow-rappers-delight.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=20 June 2023}}</ref> {{quote|Listen to "Rapper's Delight", and you hear a lightweight, joyous anthem. But it is a rough-hewn joy, miraculously born out of the struggle and pain of the Black experience. Struggle and pain are often a kiln for creativity, and that has meant that much of American culture is born of the story of Black American life.}} The song appears on the soundtrack of several video games. The long single version appears in ''[[Tony Hawk's Underground 2]]'', while the full version (albeit censored) appears in ''[[MLB 2K10]]''. It also appears in [[Forza Horizon 4]], on one of the game's radio stations. A cover of the song is on the track list for ''[[Just Dance 2024 Edition]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-13 |title=Just Dance 2024 song list and track list |url=https://www.theloadout.com/just-dance-2024/song-list |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=The Loadout |language=en-US}}</ref> The chorus of the 2002 international hit [[The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)]] by [[Las Ketchup]] is a Spanish [[gibberish]] version of [[Wonder Mike|Wonder Mikes]] bit in "Rapper's Delight".<ref>{{cite news|title=Todo lo que sube debe bajar, lo importante es que ahora estamos arriba |url=http://terra.es/ocio/articulo/html/oci16323.htm |access-date=1 August 2019 |newspaper=[[Terra Networks]] |date=2004 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227140115/http://terra.es/ocio/articulo/html/oci16323.htm |archive-date=27 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=27 September 2017|title=Este hilo explica la desgarradora historia del "Aserejé"|url=https://www.elespanol.com/social/20170927/249975805_0.html|access-date=2 July 2020|website=El Español|language=es-ES}}</ref>
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