Questlove on hip-hop, history and the first time he heard 'Rapper's Delight'

The Roots bandleader says hearing The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit felt like a paradigm shift: "Suddenly they start talking in rhythmic poetry and we didn't know what to make of it."

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