{"id":195451,"date":"2024-04-07T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=195451"},"modified":"2024-04-07T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T23:14:26","slug":"keith-leblanc-sugar-hill-records-house-band-drummer-passes-away-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/keith-leblanc-sugar-hill-records-house-band-drummer-passes-away-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith LeBlanc, Sugar Hill Records House Band Drummer, Passes Away at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outstanding <strong>Keith LeBlanc<\/strong>, who started his career as the drummer for <em>Sugar Hill Records&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 house band and rhythm section, has passed away after a battle with an undisclosed illness. LeBlanc was a drummer on many early Hip-Hop classics by <strong>Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious 5<\/strong> and the<strong> Sugar Hill Gang<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His 1983 composition \u201cNo Sell Out\u201c is considered to be one the earliest sample-based records in popular music, and is credited as the first song to use <strong>Malcolm X<\/strong> vocals over a drum machine beat. He was a part of the iconic track \u201cUnity,\u201c which paired <strong>James Brown<\/strong> with a Hip-Hop artist for the first time, which was none other than <strong>Afrika Bambaataa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc&#8217;s 1986 debut solo album <em>Major Malfunction<\/em> kickstarted a whole new genre of industrial music and influenced countless musicians. Throughout his extensive career, LeBlanc released a number of solo projects, and collaborated with a wide array of renowned rock and roll groups like <strong>Nine Inch Nails<\/strong>, <strong>Depeche Mode<\/strong> and <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueo_-Te4uzs?si=u4QFi8UbTD_EACMU\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outstanding Keith LeBlanc, who started his career as the drummer for Sugar Hill Records&#8217;\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":195458,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Keith-LeBlanc.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-OQr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195451","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}