Funk You Up" by The Sequence sampled Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight". Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes.

A. Funk You Up (Part I). 10:52. B. Funk You Up (Part II). 6:49. Cover sleeve design from the Sugarhill Records Label. Other Versions (5 of 15) View All. Cat.

Sugarhill Gang is the self-titled debut album by influential rap group The Sugarhill Gang. The album was released in 1980 for Sugarhill Records and was produced by Sylvia Robinson. The single "Rapper's Delight" was a hit on the US pop chart and a hit on the R&B chart. Although "Rapper's Delight" was the only charting single, the album also included the minor hit, "Rapper's Reprise".

Although the Sugarhill Gang didn't invent hip-hop, they were the first rap act to have a huge international hit. Released in 1979, "Rapper's Delight" was millions of listeners' first exposure to hip-hop - before that, very few people outside of New York even knew what hip-hop was. The Sugarhill Gang were also among the first rap acts to record a full-length LP; when this self-titled debut album came out in 1980, the vast majority of old-school MCs were only providing 12" singles.

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Album: Best Of Sugarhill Gang (1979). Charted: 3 36. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. The Sugarhill Gang made two more visits to the Hot 100; first when "8th Wonder" charted at in 1981, then with "Apache" at in 1982. They faded into obscurity, but returned in the '90s to play nostalgia shows. In 1999, they released a children's rap album called Jump On It. In 1998, The Sugarhill Gang performed this for a Turner Broadcasting party. Sheerin ended up playing some live gigs with the band and became a successful studio musician and composer of jingles. This was covered by the Def Squad (Redman, Keith Murray, Erick Sermon of EPMD) in 1998 on the El Nino album which was released on Def Jam. It was called "Def Squad Delite," and the verses were partly changed.