Sugar Hill Records

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hip hop record label record label

Sugar Hill Records was a pioneering hip hop record label best known for releasing "Rapper's Delight" and helping bring rap music into the mainstream in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Label	Occurrences
Sugar Hill Records canonical	17
Sugar Hill Records All Stars	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	hip hop record label ⓘ record label ⓘ
activePeriod	early 1980s ⓘ late 1970s ⓘ
associatedWith	Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" becoming a hit single ⓘ Sylvia Robinson ⓘ
businessModel	signing early hip hop performers from New York–New Jersey area ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalImpact	helped legitimize rap as part of popular culture ⓘ introduced rap music to a broad radio audience ⓘ
distribution	independent distribution (early years) ⓘ
era	old-school hip hop ⓘ
focus	single-oriented releases ⓘ
foundedBy	Joe Robinson ⓘ Milton Malden ⓘ Sylvia Robinson ⓘ
foundedInDecade	1970s ⓘ
genre	hip hop ⓘ rap ⓘ
influenced	development of recorded hip hop ⓘ subsequent hip hop record labels ⓘ
knownFor	helping bring rap music into the mainstream ⓘ pioneering commercial hip hop recordings ⓘ Rapper's Delight ⓘ surface form: releasing "Rapper's Delight"
location	Englewood, New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: Englewood, New Jersey
market	mainstream popular music ⓘ
medium	vinyl records ⓘ
notableArtist	Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ Melle Mel ⓘ The Sugarhill Gang ⓘ
notableRelease	Rapper's Delight ⓘ surface form: "Rapper's Delight" The Message ⓘ surface form: "The Message"
parentCompany	Sugar Hill Records ⓘ surface form: Sugar Hill Records Ltd.
region	East Coast hip hop ⓘ surface form: East Coast hip hop scene
significance	helped establish rap as a commercially viable genre ⓘ key role in early East Coast hip hop ⓘ one of the first labels to release rap records on a large commercial scale ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ

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Sylvia Robinson → recordLabelFounded → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Sylvia Robinson → coFounderOf → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Sylvia Robinson → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Melle Mel → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Mother of Hip-Hop → notableWorkContext → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Mother of Hip-Hop → linkedToLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Rapper's Delight → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

The Message → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

The Sugarhill Gang → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

The Sugarhill Gang → associatedAct → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sugar Hill Records All Stars

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Joseph Robinson Sr. → coFounded → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Joseph Robinson Sr. → employer → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

All Platinum Records → parentOf → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

All Platinum Records → successor → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Leland Robinson → coFounderOf → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

subject surface form: Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Vanderpool → coFounded → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ

Sylvia Vanderpool → recordLabel → Sugar Hill Records ⓘ