How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’

[ad_1] On Oct. 20, 1979, high school friends Angela Brown, Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm found themselves in a make-or-break audition. Like many adventurous teens, the Columbia, S.C., natives were enamored with a new musical art form that had defiantly risen out of New York’s impoverished South Bronx: hip-hop. Yet the record that inspired them… Continue reading How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’