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After 'Rapper's Delight,' hip-hop went global – its impact has been massive; so too efforts to keep it real

  • Written by Eric Charry, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
After 'Rapper's Delight,' hip-hop went global – its impact has been massive; so too efforts to keep it realMC Solaar, a pioneer of French rapPhoto by Eric Catarina/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Soon after the fall 1979 release of “Rapper’s Delight,” versions of the first commercially successful rap recording began cropping up around the world.

Two Portuguese-language versions, “Bons Tempos” and “Melô Do Tagarela,&...

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