Rap music may dominate the Top 40 these days, but it got off to a pretty slow start from a chart perspective. It had been 8 years since Sugarhill Gang gave us the first rap Top 40 hit with "Rapper Delight". The number of rap records to hit the Top 40 over those 8 years were few and far between and included a number of records by non-rap acts and novelty records.
In 1987 we started to get more rap hits and acts making their debut included Beastie Boys, Eric B & Rakim, LL Cool J and Public Enemy. The first rap record to make the Top 40 in 1987 though was this.
Mantronix had made their debut the previous year with "Bassline" which made number 34. This was the follow up to that. Whilst these were their only 2 Top 40 hits of the 80s, they had a further 4 that failed to make the Top 40.
The next time we'd see Mantronix in the Top 40 would be at the start of 1990 with "Got To Have Your Love" which was a complete change in direction, not being rap music at all.
This was the only single to peak at 40 in 1987.
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