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The Breaks (German: "Die Pausen") is a song by Kurtis Blow from 1980, it appeared on his debut album of the same name . The Breaks was one of the first rap songs to make it into the international charts and the first rap song ever to be awarded a gold record in the USA . In the American Billboard Hot 100 the title reached a peak position of place 87th in Germany was The Breaks even more successful, reaching number 56. In addition, The Breaks with a length of 7:42 min one of the longest rap songs ever. Musically, the title is sorted into the rap as well as the old school hip-hop genre. The B-side of The Breaks features the instrumental track from the title and the song Do It Yourself . Today The Breaks is an undisputed classic of hip hop .
history
The song was recorded back in 1979 in New York City . Kurtis Blow, Robert Ford Jr., JB Moore, Russell Simmons, Larry Smith wrote the song together. Larry Green, JB Moore took care of the production. Kurtis Blow came to rap through DJing , which should also have a significant impact on the title. In 1980 Kurtis Blow got a record deal with Mercury Records , this happened after the recording of his first single Christmas Rappin - around the same time that the Sugarhill Gang landed the first hit in hip-hop music with Rapper's Delight . At the time, this style of music was ridiculed as a passing phenomenon and there was great resistance to signing Blow. After Christmas Chapin was released, Kurtis subsequently released The Breaks as a 12 "single .
Content and music
In the song there are some breaks in the blues scheme in the AABA form. Furthermore, we took advantage of breakbeats from previous hip-hop recordings; the funky percussion breaks to sample and as a basis for the production served. The so-called breakdown was also used for the song, where a DJ fades out one sound layer of the song after another.
The lyrics to the song came to Kurtis after he first heard the funky beat of the song. When he recorded the song, he improvised all of the lyrics and simply made it up, using the word "break" 84 times, with different meanings. The word serves as a reference to the title, but also represents the content of the song, which is about taking free time and making your breaks positive.
- In The Breaks the word “ break ” (or words with similar meanings) is repeated a total of 84 times .
- There are six breakdowns in the song (five of which contain the outro ).
- The radio - Beat the song was originally for The Breaks added, and not from Long Train Runnin of The Doobie Brothers , how many music critics suspected. The Breaks has been sampled by many artists.
- The bassline was played by "T-Bone" Wolk , later Hall & Oates bassist and member of the Saturday Night Live band.
Cover versions
- 1997: Nadanuf feat. Kurtis Blow
- 1998: A Skillz feat. Krafty Kuts & Kurtis Blow
Others
The song can be heard in the games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , True Crime: New York City and Scarface: The World Is Yours .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts US
- ↑ Answers.com - Worldwide . Answers.com. Retrieved July 11, 2007.