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Sugarhill Gang & Melle Mel bring foundational hip-hop party to Summerfest

By the time we'd heard that hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc will come to Milwaukee in August, we were already anticipating the Summerfest appearance of Sugarhill Gang, which had hip-hop's first real hit with 1979's "Rapper's Delight" and Melle Mel & Scorpio of the Furious Five. The two events bookend a summer of shows here by hip-hop groundbreakers.