{"id":340188,"date":"2025-12-10T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:43:15","slug":"3-attempts-by-rock-stars-to-produce-rap-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340188\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Attempts by Rock Stars To Produce Rap Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rap is certainly not an easy genre to jump into if you\u2019ve made a whole career out of rock music. While these two genres <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/rap-rock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go together beautifully<\/a>, it is their major differences that lend them each their unique appeal. And rap, realistically, takes some serious know-how to do properly. Let\u2019s look at a few rock stars who weren\u2019t particularly afraid to attempt rap back in the day!<\/p>\n<p>David Bowie<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that David Bowie once had a moment in rap music? Unsurprisingly, the art rock legend had no issue with diving into new territory. \u201cShining Star (Makin\u2019 My Love)\u201d was released back in 1987, and he\u2019s not actually the one doing the rapping. Rather, this song from the reissue of Never Let Me Down features David Bowie singing and playing the keyboard, and the individual doing the rapping is none other than actor Mickey Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Jagger<\/p>\n<p>Remember SuperHeavy? If not, you\u2019re not alone there. This supergroup, comprised of The Rolling Stones\u2019 Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, A. R. Rahman, Dave Stewart, and Damian Marley, was only around from 2009 to 2011. Their music was pretty eclectic and weaved between rock, reggae, and Indian pop music. One of their songs, \u201cMiracle Worker\u201d from 2011, charted decently. It\u2019s honestly a pretty good song. And it features Jagger doing something he calls \u201ctoasting,\u201d which is similar to rapping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToasting, we call it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/jagger-takes-risk-superheavy-wbna44622450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said Jagger<\/a>. \u201cBut it is the same thing [as rap]. Damian was doing this really good toasting, West Indian rapping, so I thought, \u2018I could do that. It can\u2019t be that difficult.\u2019 It actually was quite difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Harry<\/p>\n<p>In this somewhat underrated example of rock stars to made the move to attempt rap, Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry takes on the task with flying colors. Harry, who fell in love with the hip-hop genre in the late 1970s, rapped on the song \u201cRapture\u201d from the band\u2019s 1980 album Autoamerican. Some believe this might have been the first rap song to make it to MTV, but that is definitely up for debate. Just as well, some might argue that Harry\u2019s vocal track is closer to spoken word than it is to rap. It\u2019s close, in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rap is certainly not an easy genre to jump into if you\u2019ve made a whole career out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,55310,2156],"class_list":{"0":"post-340188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rap-music","11":"tag-rock-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}