- August 11, 1973
- DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy were hosting a party when they unknowingly created a technique now called looping, and is now used by record producers in almost every beat of music.
The history of rap music
By: Yasmine Bonilla
- DJ Kool Herc was hosting a party, and needed someone to speak while the music was playing in order to keep the party alive. He dedicated one of the MC parties if Coke La Rock where later on Coke La Rock spoke the first bar of a lyric. Which later on is known as rap, and Coke La Rock became the first rapper in Hip-Hop as well as created a new genre of music.
- 1979
- Rap music finally got recognition for itself.
- In the same year in winter, the group call Sugar Hill Gang also released the rap song, "Rappers Delight".
- Somewhere in 1979
- The first rap song that was commercially released was "King Tim lll (Personal Jock)" by Fatback Band. However it wasn't the first rap song.
- They were also the first hip hop group to perform on American Bandstand. As well as first nationally popular African American hip hop group.
- Rap music beginnings were focused on bring families together, and lifting up each other from their sufferings.
- Although after the lawsuit for the song, "Rappers Delight" with the original writer, Sugar Hill Gang never made it back on the high charts again with their other three albums.
- However, "Rappers Delight" is still a huge influence today.
- Rapper and actor, Ice Cube start his career in fame in the late 1980's with a hard-hitting, gangsta rap group called N.W.A.
- Cassette tapes were used for rap, and hip hop music when rap music was still waiting on public recognition.
- After it got it's recognition, artists more given more opportunities with producers who had more equipment to add to their music. Like