Talk:Rapper's Delight

message: Was there any video for Rapper's Delight? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.240.234.212 (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This video on YouTube seems to the closest thing to a music video as we understand it today (remember this was 1979 and MTV was at least four years away). - Thanks, Hoshie |  09:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: MTV went on the air in 1981. There were music videos before MTV, though. — Walloon 08:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Video

message: This can't be correct. I believe Good Times is the earlier song. In fact, elsewhere in this Wikipedia, Another One Bites The Dust is listed as a 1980 release, and Good Times was released in 1979. I'm going to delete the erroneous part of this Rapper's Delight article. --Jlg9999989 14:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not correct. In fact, it's just the opposite. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Angrykeyboarder (talk • contribs) 22:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Times is derived from Another One Bites The Dust?

message: Who were the Uk rappers that did the 25th anniversary cover version for 1Xtra? I'm pretty sure Rodney P proclaims his involvement in the first verse, but apart from that...?--Macca7174 23:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The 1Xtra version

message: I cannot, that's right CANNOT believe the matter of Chic is even in dispute. It is quite ocbviously Chic, I have heard that breakdown section hundreds if not thousands of times and I'd know it anywhere. I cannot believe you guys. The band said it was replayed to get out of the Atlantic Records portion of the payoff. Chic made much more money by removing the label from the deal (eliminate the middle man), like, DUH!! What gets me most bummed is that I'm trying to save the history of hip hop culture in the Wiki by starting the breakdown section entry and I'm in an editing dispute and they want to delete it so I come here to bolster my arguments and you all just let me down... sigh...--Tednor 21:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: C'est Chic

message: :"It ranked #2 in the 100 Greatest Rap Songs, beaten by Common Sense's I Used to Love H.E.R."
Whose list is this? No indication. — Walloon 08:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The editor was speaking of About.com's list. I added the reference. PGT.Endurance 21:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 100 Greatest Rap Songs

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject class rating

message: The two alternate covers in the infobox have been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussions here and here if you are interested in it not being deleted. – IbLeo (talk) 19:58, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate cover images listed for deletion

message: I found a really detailed article about this song where the bass player Chip Shearin was interviewed, and it had some quotes from someone named Oliver Wang, although I'm not entirely clear on whether the writer got the information from the book or actually interviewed Wang. If he got it from Wang's book then that's the real source, although I wouldn't know how to find the details on that.
The article is kind of a mess currently since some information is in one section and some is in another. My guess is that the information from "Charlie Rock", which seems to dispute whether sampling was involved, should go in the same section as Chip Shearin's quotes. And I doubt "Charlie Rock" should be in quotes like that.  Also, while I'm not disputing the content that was already in the article (and I did some work on that because it would repeat some of what I added), it had to come from somewhere but it doesn't have a reference.Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 18:13, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup needed 

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message: I have heard bits and pieces of original lyrics, it's right there in the official song. Has anyone heard this before. I am going to ask one of them if they thought about putting out first lyrics. They rapping about things back then that you didn't hear In music before. I waiting to hear from someone from the owners of the Sugar Hill gang to ask them about this before I just put it out . I grew up with this music I remember all the kids in elementary sing it. I remember these songs out at that time One Way Cutie Pie , Parlimont Flash light Ggrreenn66 (talk) 22:16, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugar hill gang Rapper's Delight OG rap. The original words, has anyone heard.