King Tim III (Personality Jock)
"
King Tim III (Personality Jock)'" is a
1979 (see
1979 in music) song by the
Fatback Band from the
disco album
XII. Released a few month's before "
Rapper's Delight" (which is often cited as the first commercially released
hip hop song), this song has become perhaps the band's most famous and influential and is often cited as the beginning of recorded hip hop.