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Various Artists: Genius Of Rap — The Sugar Hill Story

Dave Rimmer, Q, August 1987

"I SAID A HIP, HOP..." starts the rap by The Sugar Hill Gang's Wonder Mike over a riff faithfully copied from (though only much later credited to) Nile Rodgers' and Bernard Edwards' 'Good Times'.

Total word count of piece: 585

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