“I just happened to be on the air. I just came to work. And on that particular day, I made history.” - Edie “Lady Edie B.” Anderson was the first DJ to play Sugar Hill Gang's “Rapper’s Delight”, breaking into oldies on WESL in East St. Louis with 14 minutes unlike anything they'd ever played.

How an East St. Louis radio station made hip-hop history with 'Rapper's Delight'

"Gentleman" Jim Gates and Edie "Lady Edie B." Anderson were first to play Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" at WESL in 1979.