Chic + The Sugarhill Gang: the Core Relation
Two endpoints. 3 steps. Where would you dig next?
Rapper’s Delight uses a replayed bass line from Chic’s Good Times.
Follow the route
Chic → Good Times → Rapper’s Delight → The Sugarhill Gang
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Chic performed Good Times. Source
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Rapper’s Delight interpolates Good Times. Source
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The Sugarhill Gang performed Rapper’s Delight. Source
Keep the detail straight
A replayed musical passage is an interpolation, distinct from sampling the original recording.
Take a side trail
- Nile Rodgers was a guitarist in Chic. Source
Three more rabbit holes
Coldplay’s guitar melody started with Kraftwerk’s synthesizers.
An editorial recommendation in the same replayed melody theme; this pairing does not assert an extra factual connection.
Talk replays the melody from Kraftwerk’s Computer Love, with permission.
Kraftwerk → Computer Love → Talk → Coldplay
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Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails: three steps. Can you find them?
An editorial recommendation for a change of direction; this pairing does not assert an extra factual connection.
Cash’s 2002 rendition of Hurt leads back to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral.
Nine Inch Nails → The Downward Spiral → Hurt → Johnny Cash
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A country album sits behind Whitney Houston’s defining ballad.
An editorial recommendation for a change of direction; this pairing does not assert an extra factual connection.
Dolly Parton’s Jolene includes I Will Always Love You, later recorded by Whitney Houston.
Dolly Parton → Jolene → I Will Always Love You → Whitney Houston
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Find a different route
Open Find, choose Chic and The Sugarhill Gang and explore the graph. This is one documented route; the finder may offer a shorter one. Follow a person, a record or a place that catches your ear.
Spot a missing credit or a better source? Open the relevant entry and contribute what you can document. A cover, sample, shared city and shared stage mean different things; the source should support the exact relationship.