“If I Ruled the World” and “I’m Chillin’” peaked at # 16 and #20 respectively. In 1985, he released “Basketball” which peaked at #29 on the R&B chart and remained on the charts for 15 weeks. Blow’s single, “8 Million Stories,” was released in 1984 and peaked at #45 on R&B chart.īlow married Shirley Stewart on September 2, 1984. “Hard Times,” discussed economic and ethnic struggles and other sociological issues. In the history of music, “The Breaks” was the first certified gold rap song for Hip-Hop and the second accredited gold 12-inch single.īlow left City College in 1980 and soon after merged elements of socialism into his rap composition “Hard Times” that peaked at #75 and remained on the chart for four weeks. Also released that year was his single, “The Breaks” which peaked at #4 on the R&B chart and # 87 on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up album, The Breaks, went gold selling more than 500,000 copies.
His album Christmas Rappin’ sold more than 400,000 copies. However, he left and obtained the General Equivalency Diploma.Īfterward, Walker enrolled in The City College of New York in 1976 at 17 as a speech and broadcasting major and in 1979, while still a college student, Blow signed a deal with Mercury Records, making him the first rapper signed by a major label. In his early teens, he was a break dancer, DJ, and rapper in junior high and in 1975, while using the name Kool DJ Kurt, he was a student at the Harlem School of the Arts. That was the beginning of his experimental interest as a DJ. His mother was a dancer in Harlem during the Renaissance at the Savoy and the Cotton Club.Īt the age of seven, Blow’s mother brought him a stereo component system. Legendary rapper, composer, actor, and activist Kurtis Blow was born on August 9, 1959, in Harlem, New York, as Kurt Walker.
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