Entries in Sugar Hill Records (2)
Throwback Thursdays: Melle Mel/Liquid Liquid
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 8:40AM Back in 1983 I was a b-boy. I tried like hell to get my hands on the hottest mix tapes available - spending most of my allowance on the latest K-Tel releases. I remember hearing Melle Mel's "White Lines" for the first time. Hypnotic. It wasn't until recently that I discovered that the track was actually a 'cover' of the Liquid Liquid song, "Cavern". Blew my mind. "White Lines" was released on the Sugar Hill label as a Grandmaster Flash song even though he had nothing to do with the track and had left the label the year before. Shady.
Throwback Thursdays: Sylvia Robinson
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:35AM One week ago we lost Sylvia Robinson, a hip-hop pioneer. Sylvia was the founder and CEO of Sugar Hill Records which brought us, of course, The Sugar Hill Gang and raps first single, "Rapper's Delight". Here she is in 1974 performing "Sweet Stuff" on Soul Train. If the groove sounds familiar, it's because J Dilla sampled the mess out of it for his cut, "Crushin' (Yeeeaaah)". Dig.
