Elizabeth Cotten born / "Rapper's Delight" becomes first Top 40 hip-hop song - January 5th Flashback

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On this day in 1893, blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.On this day in 1980, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became the first hip hop song ever to break into the Billboard Top 40.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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