[GSWarrior]

One of their worst songs, IMHO. The faux rapping is …not good.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Oh come on! Of course she's not going to exactly spit out bars like Eminem back then. Just the fact that she rapped was iconic in itself.

If you think about it, white people really had a hand in rap music. I always felt that Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club (which also came out in 1981 and was sampled by dozens of other hip-hop artists) and Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" should also be classified as rap.

[Rio]

And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he’s got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you’re in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin’ cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subaru
And you don’t stop, you keep on eatin’ cars
Then, when there’s no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don’t move too slow, ‘cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he’s eatin’ bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He’s gonna eat ‘em all

[proust]

It IS terrible. It sounds like she’s singing in a snowstorm of cocaine.

[tophat9000]

Square dance callers were rapping before it was call rapping