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Spoonie Is Back (Vocal) / Spoonie Is Back (Instrumental)

Spoonie Is Back (Vocal) / Spoonie Is Back (Instrumental)

Performing artist Spoonie Gee
Record company Sugar Hill Records (NYC)
Date1981
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HW): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.274 × 31.274 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2001.279.12.A,.B
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Spoonie Is Back (Vocal) / Spoonie Is Back (Instrumental) is a single released in 1981 by Spoonie GeeReleased under Sugar Hill Records this single was produced by Sylvia Robinson. 

 

Spoonie Gee (Gabriel Jackson, b. 1963) was a MC that emerged in the late 1970s and is 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 that 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 started in 1987 with his debut album The Godfather of Rap, which was produced by Marley Marl and Teddy Riley, and released on Tuff City label. 

Sugar Hill is written in cursive red, blue, and yellow striped colored font. There is a blue skyline of a city in the middle of the cover over a light blue background.
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Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
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