◇ image via WikipediaThe Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is a Hip hop act. Their sound grew out of Bim Sherman, Sylvia Robinson, DJ Kool Herc, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Chic. Those roots explain a lot about how The Sugarhill Gang arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Naughty By Nature, Eric B. & Rakim, Run–D.M.C., House of Pain and Afrika Bambaataa, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Eazy-E, Wiley, Angie Stone, Ice-T and Q-Tip, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around The Sugarhill Gang, reaching back through Bim Sherman and forward to Eazy-E. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Sugarhill Gang connections
The Sugarhill Gang grew out of Bim Sherman, Sylvia Robinson, DJ Kool Herc and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, shares an orbit with Naughty By Nature, Eric B. & Rakim, Run–D.M.C. and House of Pain, went on to shape Eazy-E, Wiley, Angie Stone and Ice-T. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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