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Issues  The 10 best rap songs of all time  See also  Hip hop
music, which is more popularly known as rap, seems like it has
been around forever. Some may actually think that it was
especially the younger generations who were born after 1980 and
hearing rap music is almost second nature to them. Believe it or
not there was a time when there wasn’t any rap music coming
through the airwaves and it really wasn’t that long ago.  More
Photos  In 1979 Sugarhill Gang became the first rap group to
have a song played not only on mainstream radio, but it actually
became a top 40’s hit and brought rap music to the forefront.
Their song “Rapper’s Delight” has been listed on the National
Public Radio’s (NPR) list of The 100 Most Important American
Musical Works of the 20th Century.  The group as well as the
song opened up a lot of doors for other early artists to come
and leave their mark on the music world such as Grandmaster
Flash and the Furious Five, Afri