Hey, it's still Tuesday night over on the West Coast…

It's appropriate for me to start off this old school hip hop week by uploading what was the first ever successful hip hop song, even though The Sugarhill Gang weren't exactly a well-respected "crew" by any means. That's right, it's the classic "Rapper's Delight". Everyone is familiar with it, but I don't know how many have heard the full album version, all 14 and a half minutes of it. As it's such a historic song, it pays to hear the full version rather than any edited version of it, right?

In my opinion, even better than "Rapper's Delight" is their song "Apache", which samples a song from the 70's with the same title. I'll always remember the song and attach it to the memory of some pro wrestlers at a Hooters after a show (don't ask).

Some of you may be familiar with "Apache" due to it being sampled by Missy Elliott in her song "We Run It", which was a song I liked, meaning that you only heard it for about one week on the radio stations (you can't get in the way of such genius songs as "Fergalicious" now, can we?). I'll upload that too, for a nice threesome.

I'll be back sometime Thursday afternoon (I promise!)

Sugarhill Gang-"Rapper's Delight" (19.87 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/P23On2q229194/Rapper%27s%20Delight-The%20Sugarhill%20Gang.MP3.html

Sugarhill Gang-"Apache" (8.57 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ZyGJvtT229195/Sugarhill_Gang_-_Apache.MP3.html

Missy Elliott-"We Run This" (4.70 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.bestsharing.com/files/gsLPR229196/Missy%20Elliott%20-%20We%20Run%20This.MP3.html