“Rapper’s Delight” has gone down in history as the first commercially successful hip-hop single, and one of the longest at nearly 15 minutes. In the 1980s, rappers such as Run-DMC, LL Cool J and Public Enemy received the attention of major record labels and garnered national recognition. They were given the stage name, Sugar Hill Gang and soon afterward they recorded “Rapper’s Delight.” With a recording contract and air time on radio stations, the group easily became the most popular hip hop group in the country. There mere fact someone is giving credit to “Are You Being Served” as a RAP song is insane. Several years after hip-hop culture began to take shape at parties in the Bronx and Queens, Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was released via Sugar Hill Records on Sept. 16, 1979. "Rapper's Delight," recorded in 1979 by the Sugarhill Gang, was the first rap record to receive major mainstream radio play. Earlier in 1979, a funk group called The Fatback Band, or simply Fatback, released a single on Spring Records called “You’re My Candy Sweet.” That song held little significance, but the B side entitled “King Tim III … "Rapper's Delight," released on September 16, 1979, was a serious push to get a rap record into the mainstream, and it worked. The 1st song was not rappers delight and by far not the 1st rap song period, It was the most recognizable and 1st recorded that was labeled as a genre hip-hop & rap. "Rapper's Delight" was a 1979 single by American hip-hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. It is, and will continue to be, one of Thirty years after “Rapper’s Delight,” hip-hop is so established in American popular culture that eight out of the top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 list show its influence. The song reached the Hot 100 (at #84) on the chart dated November 10, and cracked the Top 40 (at #37) on January 5, peaking at #36 a week later. In the USA "Rapper's Delight" did not achieve as much chart success as "Good Times" (peaking at #36 on the U.S. pop chart and #4 on the American R&B charts, compared to … View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1979 Vinyl release of "Rapper's Delight" on Discogs. "Rapper's Delight," released by Englewood's Sugar Hill Records, came out on Sept. 16, 1979. In 1979 they also became the first hip hop group to perform on American Bandstand. The basic elements of hip hop—MCs rapping, DJs mixing and scratching, B-Boys break-dancing—were all in place by 1979, but you could not walk into a record store in Times Square and buy a … First of all, “Rapper’s Delight” was not the first rap record. The Big Bang of hip-hop occurred 40 years ago Monday.