{"id":113078,"date":"2016-12-08T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=113078"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:20:02","slug":"dig-of-the-day-the-sequence-funk-you-up-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-the-sequence-funk-you-up-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: The Sequence &#8211; Funk You Up (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/he_O9FbuzSM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Active from 1979-1985, we have a female old school Hip-Hop trio originated from Columbia, SC as a group of high school cheerleaders. The group consisted of <strong>Cheryl Cook (Cheryl The Pearl), Gwendolyn Chisolm (Blondie)<\/strong>, and lead singer\/rapper <strong>Angie Brown Stone (Angie B.)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Funk You Up<\/em> was their top single and the first rap record released by a female group. It was also the second single released by <strong>Sugar Hill Records<\/strong>. Parts of <em>Funk You Up<\/em> were later sampled by <em>Dr. Dre<\/em> for his &#8217;95 single <em>Keep Their Heads Ringin&#8217;<\/em> off <strong>Friday<\/strong> OST.<\/p>\n<p>RIP <strong>Sylvia Robinson<\/strong>  (1936-2011)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"113079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-the-sequence-funk-you-up-1979\/r-96029-1185116261-jpeg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?fit=600%2C603&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,603\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"r-96029-1185116261-jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?fit=600%2C603&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?resize=537%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"r-96029-1185116261-jpeg\" width=\"537\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-113079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?resize=537%2C540&amp;ssl=1 537w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/R-96029-1185116261.jpeg.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active from 1979-1985, we have a female old school Hip-Hop trio originated from Columbia, SC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-tpQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}