KURTIS BLOW
Kurtis Blow
1980 Canada pressing
A funky #HipHop classic on a Sunday afternoon!
“The Breaks” was a pivotal song for the history of the genre.
Blow was the FIRST rapper to sign with a major label, and the first COMMERCIALLY viable hip-hop figure.
THAT song was also the FIRST gold record for the genre.
A HALF A MILLION COPIES is insane for a rap single in 1980.
The industry was still afraid of that shit, and Blow blew the doors down for a lot of rappers, and had a lot to do with legitimizing rap and hip-hop as a viable industry and business model.
Kurtis Blow.
A man of many firsts.
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