Summary: Tanya "Sweet Tee" Winley & the Harlem Underground Band - Vicious Rap (Earliest recorded rap record, 1978 Winley Records) Fatback Band featuring King Tim III (Personality Jock) 1979 (Considered by many to be the first rap single) Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (1979 Sugar Hill) (First Top 40 Rap record) Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - Superappin' (1979 Enjoy) (Their first single on Enjoy! Records) Sequence - Funk You Up (1979 Sugarhill) (First rap record released by a female group & second single by Sugar Hill Records) Funky Four Plus One More - Rappin and Rockin the House (1979 Enjoy) (First Bronx rap group to get a record deal, First rap group on Enjoy) Kurtis Blow - The Breaks (1980 Mercury) (First certified gold record rap song) Blondie - Rapture (1980 Chrysalis) (First rap-influenced single to reach #1 on the US Billboard Chart) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (1981 Sugarhill) (First time scratching was recorded on a record) (1981 Sugarhill) Time 63:12 Compiled 08.24.10 Songs referenced in "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey" by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton
