Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1970s as “Angie B” in the hip-hop trio the Sequence, died in a car crash Saturday morning. She was 63. Stone was ...

George Clooney and Hugh Laurie Use Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” to Save Jimmy Kimmel George Clooney and Hugh Laurie Use Sugarhill ...

In October 1979, Seattle heard its first rap song on the radio. “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang played through speakers across the city, kicking off a new and active era of Black ...

Others including Wu-Tang Clan and Sugarhill Gang sampled Cymande and most famously, the Fugees’ used Cymande’s “Dove” on “The Score.” Scipio and Patterson, now in their 70s ...