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Rappin' Down Town
Studio Album by The Sugarhill Gang (rap group)
Released 1983
Recorded 1982-1983
Genre/Style Old school hip-hop
Length 38:53
Label Sugar Hill Records (record label)/Disques Vogue
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Last album 8th Wonder (The Sugarhill Gang album)
This album Rappin' Down Town (The Sugarhill Gang album)
Next album Livin' in the Fast Lane (The Sugarhill album)

Rappin' Down Town is the third album from New York City-based rap/hip hop group, The Sugarhill Gang. Released in 1983, this album includes the minor R&B hits, "The Lover in You" and "The Word is Out."

The latter three tracks on the album would also appear on the band's next album, Livin' in the Fast Lane the following year, with "Kick it Live" becoming a moderate hit.

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1. "The Lover in You" (Pete Wingfield, Sylvia Robinson) (6:52)

2. "The Word is Out" (Bernard Alexander, Doug Wimbish, Guy O'Brien, Henry Jackson, Michael Wright, Robinson) (5:40)

3. "Winner Is" (Wimbish, Skip McDonald) (6:48)

4. "Kick It Live from 9 to 5 (Michael Hepburn, Pleasure) (6:25)

5. "Space Race" (Wimbish, Ed Fletcher, McDonald) (7:41)

6. "Girls" (Al Goodman, Harry Ray, Wright, O'Brien, Venus Dodson) (5:37)

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