Home / Music / Chic's Good Times bass line launched hip-hop's first commercial hitMusic linernotes album music chicChic's Good Times bass line launched hip-hop's first commercial hitThe Sugarhill Gang interpolated that bass line for “Rapper’s Delight” (1979), widely considered the first commercially successful hip-hop single. A disco groove started a genre. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesChic wrote 'Le Freak' after getting turned away from Studio 54 on New Year's EveChic's 'Le Freak' almost started with 'Aww, fuck off'Bernard Edwards' 'Good Times' bass line is the most sampled in pop history.Curtis Mayfield won France's Prix Otis Redding for the album CurtisCurtis Mayfield's debut solo album hit No. 1 on the Black Albums chartExploreFor the Roses is Joni Mitchell's bridge from folk confession to jazz sophisticationFuture Days is Can's most ambitious production — ambient, complex, and a stylistic left turnGould's 1981 Goldberg Variations sound like a different pianist — slower, wiser, more contemplativeGreg Keelor's Gone is even mellower than Blue Rodeo — impressively laid-backJulia Holter called Have You in My Wilderness a return to Ekstasis' intimacyPrevious Kenneth Gamble of Gamble & Huff produced Odyssey's Good TimesNext Chic's 'Le Freak' almost started with 'Aww, fuck off'