Monster Jam (Vocal) / Monster Jam (Instrumental)

“Monster Jam (Vocal) / Monster Jam (Instrumental)” is a two-track vinyl released in 1980 by Spoonie Gee and The Sequence. Released under Sugar Hill Records, this track was produced by Sylvia Robinson.

Spoonie Gee (Gabriel Jackson, b. 1963) is a MC emerging in the late 1970s and one of the artists that has been credited with originating the term “Hip-Hop” and the phrase “yes, yes, yall..”. Spoonie Gee received the nickname 'Spoonie' as a child because a spoon was the only utensil he would eat with. Spoonie Gee was a founding member of the Treacherous Three, along with L.A. Sunshine and Kool Moe Dee. Spoonie Gee has been labeled as "the original gangsta rapper”. His solo career started in 1987 with his debut album The Godfather of Rap, produced by Marley Marl and Teddy Riley and released on Tuff City label.

The Sequence is the first southern Hip-Hop group—from Columbia, South Carolina—and the first Hip-Hop trio signed to Sugarhill Records, in the late 1970s. The Sequence included high school friends, Cheryl The Pearl (Cheryl Cook, b. unknown), Blondie (Gwendolyn Chisolm, b. unknown), and Angie B (Angie Brown Stone, b. 1961). Their most notable song “Funk You Up,” has been sampled by artists like Dr. Dre, Erykah Badu and En Vogue. The Sequence became one of the first acts signed to pioneering Hip-Hop label Sugarhill Records. Though never officially certified, “Funk You Up” was a nationwide hit, serving as the first Rap hit performed by women, and only the third Rap song to chart in the Top 50 of Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles. In a 70s landscape where the few Rap records that existed were chorus-free rhyme marathons, the Sequence seamlessly mixed singing and rapping and set the standard for what women who could sing and rap during the emerging era of early Hip-Hop could do.