BlogWallet Explores Sugar Hill Records and Sylvia Robinson (video)

September 6, 2025

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Kevin "KevRoss" Ross is a music and radio industry expert. He is a 20 -plus year entrepreneur with the leading most successful industry trade publication and site Radio Facts (www.radiofacts.com). He has also published various books, magazines, performed marketing and promotions for major corporations and recording artists and he is on the advisory board of several industry organizations. This year Ross introduced his non profit organization LOMARI (Leaders of the Music and Recording Industry) to help teach young minority students how to market and manage their music and products.

As we build out our video channels we wanted to share with you our first video in our new series The Business Behind Black Music, first up, Sylvia Robinson. What we can all learn from her career, legacy, wins and mistakes. The full story behind Sylvia Robinson and how she changed hip-hop forever — from the creation of “Rapper’s Delight” to the collapse of Sugar Hill Records.