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8th Wonder (song)

Field	Value
name	8th Wonder
type	single
artist	the Sugarhill Gang
album	[8th Wonder](8th-wonder-album)
B-side	Sugar Hill Groove
released	1980
genre	Old-school hip hop,
length
label	Sugar Hill
writer	Cheryl Cook, Ronald LaPread
producer	Joey Robinson, Sylvia Robinson
prev_title	Rapper's Reprise (Jam Jam)
prev_year	1980
next_title	Apache
next_year	1981

Note

| B-side = Sugar Hill Groove "8th Wonder" is a 1980 single by the American hip hop trio the Sugarhill Gang, originally released on Sugar Hill. It was later included in the 1981 album 8th Wonder.

Chart performance

The song charted at #82 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

Chart (1981)	Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	82
U.S. Billboard Disco Top 100	38
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles	15

In popular culture

A slowed down version of the music from this song is used in the DVD menus for the series Trailer Park Boys, as the backing of a song performed by the character of Tyrone.
The song was also featured in the 1983 PBS documentary Style Wars.

Sampling

Samples Used

The song sampled two others:

"Ever Ready" by Johnnie Taylor (1978)
"Daisy Lady" by 7th Wonder (1979)

Samples taken

The song, in turn, has been sampled over twenty times, including in:

"The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1981)
"Public Enemy No.1" by Public Enemy (1987)
"Shake Your Rump" by Beastie Boys (1989)
"Rap Promoter" by A Tribe Called Quest (1991)
"Back Up Off Me!" by Dr. Dre and Ed Lover feat. T-Money (1994)
"Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" by Busta Rhymes (1996)
"Never Mind" by 112 (1998)
"Gangster Trippin'" by Fatboy Slim (1998)
"K.O.B.E." by Kobe Bryant ft Tyra Banks (2000)
"I'm Gonna Be Alright" by Jennifer Lopez (2001)

References

"discogs.com".
Whitburn, Joel. (2013). "Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012". Record Research.
Whitburn, Joel. (2004). "Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003". Record Research.
Whitburn, Joel. (2004). "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004". Record Research.

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