The Breaks

The Breaks ( dt, "The Breaks " ) is a song by Kurtis Blow of 1980, it appeared on his eponymous debut album. The Breaks was one of the first rap songs that have made it internationally in the charts and the first rap song ever to be awarded in the United States with a gold record. In the American Billboard Hot 100, the title reached a peak position of 87th place in Germany was The Breaks even more successful and reached number 56 In addition, The Breaks, with a length of 7:42 min one of the longest rap songs ever. The title in the rap and the old school hip- hop genre is Musically sorted. On the B-side of The Breaks the instrumental of the song is heard, and the song Do It Yourself. Today, The Breaks applies uncontroversial as a classic of hip-hop.

History

The song was recorded in New York City in 1979. Kurtis Blow, Robert Ford Jr., J. B. Moore, Russell Simmons, Larry Smith wrote the song together. For the production attended Larry Green, J. B. Moore. Kurtis Blow came over the DJing rap, which should affect the title also instrumental. 1980 Kurtis Blow got a recording contract with the Mercury Records, this happened after recording his first single Christmas Rappin - about the same time as the Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight with the first hit of the Hip Hop music landed. At this time, this style of music was ridiculed as a temporary phenomenon, and there was great resistance to take blow under contract. After Christmas Chapin was published, The Breaks Kurtis subsequently published as a 12 " single.

Content and Musical

In the song, some Breaks find the Blue scheme in the AABA. Furthermore, we took advantage of breakbeats from previous hip-hop recordings, the resample funky percussion breaks and served as the basis for production. The so-called breakdown was also used for the song, where a DJ hides a sound layer of the song after the other.

The text of the song was a Kurtis, after he had first heard the funky beat of the song. When he took up the song, he improvised the whole text and redesigned it simply by times the word "break" used 84, with different meanings. The word is used as a reference to the title, but also the content of the song is where it comes up sometimes to treat Leisure and build its pauses positive.

  • In The Breaks the word "break" ( or words with similar meanings ) is repeated 84 times.
  • In the song, there are six breakdowns ( five of which contain the outro ).
  • The radio -beat in the song was originally recorded for The Breaks, and does not come from Long Train Runnin The Doobie Brothers of how many music critics suspected. The Breaks was sampled by many artists.
  • The bassline was played by "T -Bone " Wolk, who later became bassist of Hall & Oates and a member of the Saturday Night Live band.

Cover versions

Others

The song is in the games Grand Theft Auto: listening to The World Is Yours: Vice City, True Crime: New York City and Scarface.

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