28 May
2002
28 May
'02
4:22 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Der Automat" <automat@offcampus.net>
With all due respect, this is not correct. FYI, the first hip-hop song of the history was Afika Bambaataa's "Don't Stop... Planet Rock", which it is constructed around the lead string melody from Kraftwerk's 1977 "TEE", and was released at Tommy Boy Records in 1982.
Again with all due respect, that is not the first hip hop record, but it is arguably the first electro record, apart from Numbers then. The widely held view, as already pointed out by someone here, is that Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight was the first hip hop record to be released. Erik