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The Sugarhill Gang: Beat The Rap

Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 5 January 1980

SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA: and the Parliafunk crowd are watching three ex-DJs performing 15 minutes of the hippest tongue twisting in town. "Said a hip-hop, the hibbitt. ththe hippydippy hip hip-hoppa You don't stop the rocka to the bang-bang boogie, said up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie da beat."

Total word count of piece: 800

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