Ode to Big Bank Hank
Category: ENTERTAINMENT
"Rapper's Delight" was the song for which Sugar Hill Gang became famous and it featured one of the first examples of sampling (Chic's "Good Times" threaded though the track) that was also a harbinger of the appropriation frenzy that would infect the art world at the same time.
By Francis Levy, ContributorWriter, 2014-12-01