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Written by: S. Robinson, H. Jackson, M. Wright, G. O'Brien
Produced by: Sylvia Robinson
Released: Oct. '79 on Sugar Hill
Charts: 12 weeks
Top spot: No. 36

Master Gee, Wonder Mike and Big Bank Hank were a pure studio creation, a trio of unknown MCs recruited by Sugar Hill's Sylvia Robinson to make rap's first radio hit. Based on a sample of Chic's "Good Times," the track -- with raps about bad food instead of boasting -- kept going hip-hop, hippity-to-the-hop for fifteen minutes.

Appears on: Rappers Delight: The Best of Sugarhill Gang (Rhino)

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