Sugarhill Gang Carnival Overture Features from artists like Vic

Features from artists like Vic Mensa

Considered the first jazz label started by an African American since the Spikes Brothers' Sunshine Records in 1921

and relies on publicly available material and third‑party commentary rather than new

and the pursuit of fun

As the band's EPK describes it

Sugarhill Gang Carnival Overture Features from artists like VicSugarhill Gang is the selftitled debut album by the New Jersey rap group The Sugarhill Gang, released February 7, 1980 on Sugar Hill Records and widely regarded as the first hiphop studio album. Produced by label cofounder Sylvia Robinson and recorded in 1979, the sixtrack, roughly 39minute LP sits at the crossroads of oldschool hip hop, disco, and soul, pairing extended rap performances with bandplayed grooves built on Chics Good Times and other funk