Hip Hop Greats: Classic Raps

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Rapper's Delight
recording of:
Rapper’s Delight (on 1979-08-02)
writer:
Bernard Edwards, Guy O'Brien (US rapper Guy Anthony O’Brien), Henry Jackson, Michael Wright, Sylvia Robinson and Nile Rodgers
publisher:
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
is based on:
Good Times
Sugarhill Gang56:35
2Fat Boys
producer:
Kurtis Blow
recording of:
Fat Boys
writer:
Kurtis Blow, Mark Morales, Ron Dean Miller (NY-based composer, producer, engineer and guitarist), William Waring and Damon Wimbley
Fat Boys6:55
3White Lines (Don't Do It)
recording of:
White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
writer:
Melvin Glover (Melvin Glover aka Melle Mel) and Sylvia Robinson
publisher:
Four Hills Music Ltd and IQ Music Ltd.
is based on:
Cavern
Grandmaster & Melle Mel47:30
4Roxanne, Roxanne
UTFO5:12
5Jam on It
Newcleus8:02
6It's Like That
recording of:
It’s Like That
writer:
Darryl McDaniels (rapper Darryl McDaniels), Joseph Simmons (US rapper Rev. Run of Run-D.M.C) and Larry Smith (US hip hop producer)
publisher:
Protoons Inc. and Rush-Groove
Run‐D.M.C.7:24
7The Message
producer:
Clifton Chase and Ed Fletcher
performer:
The Furious Five
music videos:
The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
part of:
Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 51) and The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 59)
recording of:
The Message
writer:
Edward Fletcher, Jiggs Chase, Melvin Glover (Melvin Glover aka Melle Mel) and Sylvia Robinson
publisher:
IQ Music Ltd.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee4.757:11
8Funk You Up
producer:
Sylvia Inc.
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Sugar Hill Records Ltd. (not for release, copyright etc.) (in 1979)
recording of:
Funk You Up
writer:
Gwendolyn Chisolm, Cheryl Lorraine Cook, Sylvia Robinson and Angie Stone
Sequence6:52
9The Breaks
producer:
James B. Moore (producer, composer) and Robert Ford Jr. (hip hop writer and producer)
recording of:
The Breaks
writer:
James B. Moore (producer, composer), Kurtis Walker, Lawrence Smith (US hip hop producer), Robert Arthur Ford, Jr. (hip hop writer and producer) and Russell W. Simmons
publisher:
Neutral Gray Music
Kurtis Blow47:45
108th Wonder
recording of:
8th Wonder
writer:
Cheryl Lorraine Cook and Ronald LaPread
publisher:
Jobette Music (UK) Ltd. and Sugar Hill Music
Sugarhill Gang5:42