Hip-hop heroes the Sugarhill Gang helped celebrate Conan O'Brien's return to New York City with a performance of "Rapper's Delight" on Conan Monday.
On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright and Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien cruised through portions of their original verses with breathless ease (the group, reasonably, did not perform the full version of the song, with Wonder Mike unfortunately nixing the "Food just ain't no good" verse).
Meanwhile, new member Henry "Hen Dogg" Williams – in for late co-founder Henry "Big Bank Hank...
On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright and Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien cruised through portions of their original verses with breathless ease (the group, reasonably, did not perform the full version of the song, with Wonder Mike unfortunately nixing the "Food just ain't no good" verse).
Meanwhile, new member Henry "Hen Dogg" Williams – in for late co-founder Henry "Big Bank Hank...
- 11/1/2016
- Rollingstone.com
We have no doubt Sugarhill Gang rapper Big Bank Hank is still shocking the house for the young ladies. Only difference is ... he's got God on the ones and twos now. Our man Hank died at the age of 57, but "Rapper's Delight" lives on -- because he can rock a party 'til the early light! Read more...
- 11/12/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The music industry is mourning the loss of a pioneer in the rap community. Big Bank Hank, who was a member of the Sugarhill Gang rap group, passed away Tuesday morning in New Jersey after a long battle of cancer. He was 57. The group's manager confirmed the death to Rolling Stone and said his bandmates Wonder Mike and Master Gee were informed of the news. Hank, who was born Henry Jackson, is well-known for his single "Rapper's Delight." The multiplatinum hit was one of the first rap songs played on the radio and became the first hip-hop single to become a Top 40 Billboard chart hit. The 1979 classic tune has lived on thanks to memorable renditions from Brian Williams and Ellen...
- 11/11/2014
- E! Online
Big Bank Hank, one of the three members of the pioneering hip-hop group The Sugarhill Gang, has died of cancer. He was 57. Hank, whose real name was Henry Jackson, helped the hip-hop genre to burst through into mainstream music with the band's 1979 hit, "Rapper's Delight." The rapper died Tuesday, and the other two members of the group, Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien and Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright, were notified that morning, according to Rolling Stone. "So sad to hear about our brothers passing," his bandmates said in a statement to the magazine. "The three of us created musical history together with the release of 'Rapper's Delight.
- 11/11/2014
- by Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, @sheilabot
- PEOPLE.com
He was one of the early hip hop pioneers and sadly Big Bank Hank lost his battle with cancer at 57 years of age.
The Sugar Hill Gang star, whose real name was Henry Jackson, paved the way for guys like Kanye West, Jay Z, Eminem and the Beastie Boys, along with his band maates Wonder Mike and Master Gee.
In a press release, Master and Wonder declared, “So sad to hear of our brother’s passing. Rest in peace, Big Bank.”
Big Bank Hank was famous for lyrics like- “I’m Imp the Dimp, the ladies’ pimp, The women fight for my delight. But I’m the grandmaster with the three MCs, That shock the house for the young ladies, And when you come inside, into the front, You do the freak, spank, and do the bump, And when the sucker Mc try to prove a point, We’re a treacherous trio,...
The Sugar Hill Gang star, whose real name was Henry Jackson, paved the way for guys like Kanye West, Jay Z, Eminem and the Beastie Boys, along with his band maates Wonder Mike and Master Gee.
In a press release, Master and Wonder declared, “So sad to hear of our brother’s passing. Rest in peace, Big Bank.”
Big Bank Hank was famous for lyrics like- “I’m Imp the Dimp, the ladies’ pimp, The women fight for my delight. But I’m the grandmaster with the three MCs, That shock the house for the young ladies, And when you come inside, into the front, You do the freak, spank, and do the bump, And when the sucker Mc try to prove a point, We’re a treacherous trio,...
- 11/11/2014
- GossipCenter
Big Bank Hank, a member of the Sugarhill Gang, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, after losing his battle to cancer, his manager David Mallie confirmed to CNN. He was 57. The rapper, whose real name was Henry Jackson, passed away early Tuesday morning in Englewood, N.J. Big Bank Hank was one of three members of the Sugarhill Gang, which made hip-hop mainstream in 1979 with their hit "Rapper's Delight." The song itself was the first rap ever to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart. Jackson's most [...]...
- 11/11/2014
- Us Weekly
Big Bank Hank -- the Sugarhill Gang rapper best known as "the grandmaster with 3 MCs that shock the house for the young ladies" -- died early Tuesday morning ... TMZ has learned.Hank -- born Henry Jackson -- had been suffering from cancer. We're told he passed away in the greater NYC area around 2 Am. Hank was one third of the famous Sugarhill Gang ... which had the first mainstream rap hit "Rappers Delight" in 1979.His group...
- 11/11/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
You may have heard the song “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang (“I said a hip hop, a hippie, a hippie to the hip hop”), but what you might not know is this song helped hip hop break into the mainstream and helped a genre that, up until that point had been brushed off as a fad, start to take root in our musical history. Even though the group was changing the face (and sound) of the music industry, The Sugarhill Gang found themselves on top of the charts with barely a dime to their name. While this is not the first time we have heard stories of talent swindled by shady and greedy record executives, the story of the Sugarhill Gang is not just about losing money, it is about having their name and the true identity of the band member’s themselves stolen from them. The Sugarhill Gang was originally made up of Wonder Mike...
- 2/9/2012
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Last week, MTV News unveiled its list of the Hottest MCs in the Game (topped, rightfully so, by none other than Jay-z). This week marks a key moment in hip-hop history, as the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" — the first real hip-hop single — was unleashed a full 30 years ago. If you had described the concept of "Rapper's Delight" to somebody ("Hey, I've got this breakdown in the middle of a disco song — let me rhythmically recite poetry over it!") in the age before rap music, that person probably would have rolled his eyes at the very concept. But the concept certainly took off, and after "Rapper's Delight" impacted the pop charts, hip-hop as a commercial force was born and it has rarely relinquished its hold on pop music since.
Though the track consists of the same repetitive bass loop and the rhyming styles of Wonder Mike, Big Bank Hank and...
Though the track consists of the same repetitive bass loop and the rhyming styles of Wonder Mike, Big Bank Hank and...
- 10/13/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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