LEONARD GREENE: Reminiscing on 50 years of hip hop in NYC and giving the artists their due

My cheesy claim to hip hop fame is that I still know all the words to “Rapper’s Delight,” even the verses that Big Bank Hank allegedly stole from rap legend Grandmaster Caz, but that’s another story. From sun to sun and from day to day I sit down and write a brand new rhyme Because they say that miracles never cease These were the good times, as in “Good Times,” the Chic song sampled by the “Sugar Hill Gang,” whose recording of “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979 delivered hip hop to...