"TMZ reports
that Big Bank Hank, one third of pioneering rap group the Sugarhill
Gang, died early this morning after a battle with cancer. Hank, born
Henry Jackson, was 57.
The Sugarhill Gang, and Hank in particular, have a long and strange
story. Hip-hop had been thriving as live party music in the Bronx for
years before the group recorded 1979′s “Rapper’s Delight,” the
first-ever hit hip-hop record, in 1979. The Sugarhill Gang weren’t
really a part of that scene. Instead, Sugarhill Records founder Sylvia
Robinson put the group together. Legend has it that she had the idea
after hearing Hank rap while he was serving her pizza in a New Jersey
restaurant."
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