Sugar Hill Records was a record label founded in 1974 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with financial funding of Morris Levy , boss of Roulette Records.
The label's first record was "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first Top 40 hip hop single. Afterwards The Sequence, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel joined the label.
In the early 1980s, the Robinsons bought Levy out. However, problems started soon afterwards. Artists began to leave the label, a distribution deal with MCA Records fell through, and finally the label closed down in 1986 due to financial troubles.
In 1995, Rhino Records purchased all the released and unreleased masters owned by the Sugar Hill label.
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