What was the first song with a rap verse to hit #1?
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The fun thing about good music is that someone always shows up to borrow a sound, twist it around, and create something nobody's heard before. Radio programmers in the late '70s were treating rap like a novelty act, and the genre spent years trying to break into the mainstream. What was the first song with a rap verse to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100?
