ATLANTA — You've heard "Rapper's Delight" but have you heard a news anchor rap the pioneering hip-hop song?
Big Bank Hank, a member of the Sugarhill Gang died of complications of cancer at age 57 this week.
He was a part of the Sugarhill Gang in 1979 when it had hip-hop's first hit with "Rapper's Delight." The song was released as hip-hop music started to emerge as a genre, and it landed in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Channel 2 Action News anchor Fred Blankenship grew up in California where the group formed and raised to prominence. Friday, he honored Big Hank with a rap of his own in the WSB-TV studios.
"When I was a kid I would go to my father's record player and put it on and this music would take me to a different world," Blankenship says.
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