In 1983 British impresario Malcolm McLaren released "Duck Rock", an album that mixed up musical styles from South Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the USA, including the then-new genre of hip-hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip-hop to a wider audience in the USA and UK. Two of the singles from the album, "Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch", became major chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic. Guest musicians featured on "Duck Rock" include Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Thomas Dolby. Side recordings that Horn, Dudley and Jeczalik made in between takes for "Duck Rock" would eventually become the first album of The Art Of Noise. Clips of the World's Famous Supreme Team, an American hip-hop group founded in the 1980s, and their popular NYC radio show on WHBI-FM 105.9 out of Newark, NJ appear between songs, which made the album one of the earliest recordings on which members of the Nation of Gods and Earths appear. "Duck Rock" has ultimately become a critical favorite in many music critics' eyes. However, McLaren and Horn were also criticized for failing to give credit to the South African musicians involved in the recording, such as Mahlathini and The Mahotella Queens. Mbaqanga group The Boyoyo Boys took legal action against Mclaren over the similarity of "Double Dutch" with their own hit "Puleng". After a lengthy legal battle in the UK the matter was settled out of court, with payment made to the South African ...
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