[RIP] Sylvia”Mother of Hip-Hop” Robinson Passes Away At 75

09/29/2011 • Iconic record music executive, singer-songwriter and producer Sylvia Robinson has passed away today in a New Jersey hospital at the age of 75. Ms. Robinson’s long and celebrated career began in the late 1950s, but she is most known for being the mastermind behind seminal rap group The Sugarhill Gang, helping craft and release their influential single “Rapper’s Delight”— the first commercially successful rap single ever. May her Hip-Hop soul rest in peace. via more