Original Hip Hop Classics Presented By Sugar Hill Records / Various [Import]

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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.