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"Christmas Wrapping" is a Christmas song by the American new wave band the Waitresses. First released on ZE Records ' 1981 compilation album A Christmas Record , it later appeared on the band's 1982 EP I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts and numerous other holiday compilation albums. [ 1 ]
It contains a sample of "Christmas Rappin" by Kurtis Blow and was released on January 27, 1998, as the second single from their debut album, Rated Next (1997). The song reached number one on the US Hot 100 and R&B charts, topping the former for five non-consecutive weeks, and has gone platinum, making it their biggest and best-known hit.
Run-DMC performed the song live in the 1987 A Very Special Christmas CBS TV special, and on the Christmas episode of All That. It was also used in the TV shows The Office, Everybody Hates Chris, Chuck, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Ted Lasso, Lip Sync Battle, Orange Is the New Black, [3] Hindsight, The Simpsons, and Hawkeye.
While Run-DMC weren't the first group to make a Christmas rap song (that honor goes to Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'"), they made a memorable, honest, and fun song. Or, as DMC himself put it ...
The new wave hit is a holiday classic, but its real story doesn’t have a neatly tied-with-a-bow happy ending.
Kurtis Blow was barely 21 when “The Breaks” stopped hip-hop fans in their tracks. Released in 1980 as a follow-up to his debut single, “Christmas Rappin’,the song’s funky bassline ...
"Rappin' for Jesus" is a 2013 viral music video. [1] It was purportedly written for a Christian youth outreach program in Dubuque, Iowa , by Pastor Jim Colerick and his wife Mary Sue, but is generally thought to be a hoax or parody .
In 1979, at the age of twenty, Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released "Christmas Rappin'". [6] It sold over 400,000 copies, becoming one of the first commercially successful hip hop singles. [7] Its follow-up, "The Breaks", sold over 840,000 copies. [3] He released ten albums over the next eleven years.