The Fatback Band’s “King Tim III (Personality Jock)” was the first commercially released hip-hop song

Six years after Coke La Rock rapped his first rhymes at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York, the first commercial song with a rap was released. On March 25, 1979, a funk band known as The Fatback Band released the first commercially successful hip-hop song, “King Tim III (Personality Jock).” Fatback were a funk and