Talk:The Magnificent Seven (song)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

"The first major white rap record"?
The article says this song was the first white rap record of any importance because Blondie's Rapture was six months later. That's really rather a stretch. TMS was recorded in April '80, but not released as a single until a full year later (it had appeared as the opening track of the triple LP in December 1980, but had little airplay until it was put on a single. Rapture was recorded sometime in the summer of 1980, the album came out in November and the single in January 1981. So The Clash's song would have been recorded perhaps three or four months before Rapture but had next to no impact until well after the Blondie track had been released as a single. The two songs are very close in time, but Rapture was likely the first to make white audiences aware of the new techniques of early hiphop. Strausszek (talk) 18:58, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the above. I've seen the claim for both songs, and this is a nice layout of timing. CAVincent (talk) 05:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)