Rapper's Delight
Sugarhill Gang
Aiiiight you sucka MCs?!
When I was about 10 I made it my life's ambition to learn the entire words to this song, and I'm not talking about this 6:15 min version, I'm talking the whooooole 14 min original version. And you can bet yer black/white/red/brown/purple/yellow ass that I did too.
That's right, even the bit when they start running out of ideas and Wonder Mike starts rapping about going to a friend's house to eat but the "chicken tastes like wood", and how he's too polite to say no to a second portion.
I tried to demonstrate to some friends when I was about 17 that I could recite the entire works on night. I can imagine it was the longest 14 minutes of their collective life, watching some fool sat in an armchair nonchalantly spouting "I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast but we're like hot butter on a breakfast toast".
Enjoy.
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