King Tim III - Fatback (old school hiphop / hip hop / rap)

[MrSonnysosa3000]

SALUTE!!!

[eagleeye654]

This is absoluteiy a GREAT song by Patrice Rushen.

[millimills]

OMG!!! One of my classmates, Geraldine, and I performed a dance routine to this song at a high school talent show at Marvell High School in Marvell, Arkansas in Fall of 1979. One of my favorite songs of all time!

[MrAvant1997]

...I thought Jimmy Castor Bunch,  "King Kong" was the first recorded rap song ??

[Teebll]

I remember people saying that Sugar Hill Gang was the first....they didn't know about this one! FBB made a song with the phrase: Jump up like a disco pup and go down like a disco clown.....anybody know the name of that one? I think it was the same album...idk

[btinsley1]

all right you chilluns, gather round uncle tinsley and let me tell you about a time when the airwaves came alive with THIS sound. There I was, 18 years old, just graduated HS and BAAAM, this dropped on the radio and we kids went nutz ! It spread like wildfire at summer parties, the park (FYI little bwaa, that's where we showed off our hoopdies), playing in the record stores & everywhere !! Now sit cho ass down, shut up & learn some rap history...know it all whippa-snappas...

[rafiq828]

Ever heard of the Last Poets"?

[bootyplus]

Damn so we come from this to Drake lmao

[kmne11528]

It goes back further than this amazing song.. Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham is the first in my books.

[FetterBusfahrerLP]

Maike sent me here!

[djpugster70]

the First Rap Song ever Recorded "King Time lll - by the FatBack Band. 1979

[StricktlyHipHop]

@djpugster70 what about pigmeat markham?

[TheDismalDream]

amazing bass line!!

[AakwardAardvark]

haha hes already talking about doing the jerk to think it was made up by that dumb song a year ago hah

[amicodeitreni]

Old school!

[pannoni1]

The Rocket 88 of rap!

[manxcafe]

@pannoni1 You are sooooooo right! Miss da old school dayz...

[MoNicholasLaird]

Simply Amazing

[Promiselandian11]

By the way, it was 1978! suckers

[Promiselandian11]

I remember this joint when it hit the record stores. I said "oh sh*t", got smacked in the mouth. Hip-Hop its alive, IT'S ALIVE! They tried to shut Hip-Hop down but they couldnt this time. TO THE BEAT!

[hardcorehouse]

When it came to solid funk there was no better than Fatback. Underappreciated IMO.

[giankydrums]

il primo rap in assoluto!

[smittty191]

If you remember The Fatback Band was headquartered on Linden Blvd in St. Albans Queens. Rap may have started in The Bronx but Queens brought it to the world

[JovonTLC]

I was about 13/14 when this record came out. I remeber it really well because we were a young DJ and MC crew coming up. Indeed it was the first rapping record released and we all were shocked of it's release. However we never considered it official. The real Hip Hop kids always thought it was corny. Sugar Hill gang's record was a little closer to the real stuff, But when Flash and The Furious 5 and Funky 4 Plus One More's records dropped it was official. Now hip hop was on and poppin'

[mxb125]

This truly was the first rap record released...right before Rapper's Delight.....i remember buying a copy of it in Harlem and people were surprised to see it on an actual pressed LP since rap was only found on cassettes in the street at the time.

[panmandee]

Yes, I remember this song in the summer of 1979 2 months before Rapper's Delight was around. There was this dance called the Punk, and we used to do it to this song. Also, when the CNE in Toronto opened, they had an outside roller skating area and this song was one of the songs we did the "rubber legs" to. The hard rockers loved this song too because it was good to skate to, and all this was happening before Rapper's Delight was out. This is real classic street Funk.

[LJZDAD05]

everybody in hip hop bow down! this is where it started!

[FeloniousDrunk]

@LJZDAD05 Not quite. It may have been the first hip hop single to be officially, released, but it wasn't the first hip hop song ever created.

[duanerichardson]

Don't forget the last poets.

[dieudonneMC]

Yes last poets and the Watts prohets I think they were called with such poems like "the pimp" "the prostitute" and who can forget "fuck"

[Underdog263]

realhiphop3000 is RIGHT ON POINT!

[Fuunkyfreshzorro]

My book its not first rap song , cuz is one rap song from 1978....Check:

CASPERS GROOVY GHOST SHOW 1978

You cAN FIND THIS SONG ON YOUTUBE

PEACE!

[realhiphop3000]

Of course I know that one too, but if I remember correctly Casper's Groovy Ghost Show is from 1980. Anyway definitely not 1978! Still a great song though.

[fagaret]

hey there are more versions of caspers groovy ghost show

[funkyfreshzorro]

@realhiphop3000

Now I agree with you, is the mistake on the vinyl,is date 1978, but is any mistake, Casper came out in 1980. I know beceuse Casper...all ok