After a settlement , Rodgers and Edwards were listed as co-writers of the song . Rapper `` Big Bank Hank , '' whose real name was Henry Jackson , died Tuesday morning . He had been in a coma since he fell from his Cadillac Escalade on July 10 while driving drunk and hit another car head - first at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles's The 1979 song was the first rap tune to reach the Top 40 on the U.S. charts .
Rapper `` Big Bank Hank , '' whose real name was Henry Jackson , died Tuesday morning . He had been in a coma since he fell from his Cadillac Escalade on July 10 while driving drunk and hit another car head - first at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles's The 1979 song was the first rap tune to reach the Top 40 on the U.S. charts .