Various Artists – Original Hip Hop Classics (Presented By Sugarhill) 2LP

Various Artists – Original Hip Hop Classics (Presented By Sugarhill)

Hip Hop has come a long way since it exploded onto the globe in the early 1980’s – it’s turned MC’s into global icons, given a voice to a youth movement, helped ethnic groups to cross colour lines and inspired all manner of political change and growth. Sugar Hill Records was there from the start and gave birth to Hip Hop’s first superstars. Original Hip Hop Classics presented by Sugar Hill Records presents the definitive collection of records that defined the first wave of Hip Hop to break through into the mainstream.

Including beats and rhymes from The SugarHill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, The Furious Five, Melle Mel, The Treacherous Three and The Sequence plus ground-breaking releases such as ‘Rapper's Delight’, ‘The Message’ ‘White Lines (Don't Do It)’, ‘The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels of Steel’ and more this is a true document of one of the most exciting and pivotal musical genres of all time.

Tracklist:
1. The SugarHill Gang - Rapper's Delight
2. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
3. Funky Four + One - That's The Joint
4. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Its Nasty (Genius of Love)
5. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)
6. The SugarHill Gang - Apache (Jump On It)
7. The Furios Five - Step Off
8. The SugarHill Gang - 8th Wonder
9. Positive Force - We Got The Funk
10. The SugarHill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day
11. The Treacherous Three - Yes We Can
12. Crash Crew - Scratching
13. Grandmaster Flash - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels of Steel
14. The Sequence - Funk You Up
15. West Street Mob - Break Dance Electric Boogie
16. The SugarHill Gang - Passion Play

Label: BMG
Released: 2017