"Holiday Rap" is a song by Dutch musical duo

MC Miker G & DJ Sven MC Miker G & DJ Sven were a hip hop duo from the Netherlands. The duo consisted of Lucien Witteveen and Sven van Veen (DJ Sven). The 1980s saw the two launch "Holiday Rap" to international success. The song is a remixed version of Madonna's hit ...

. The debut single of the duo, it was released in most European countries in 1986 and achieved success, topping the charts of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, and West Germany and reaching number one on the

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chart. In North America, the single did not chart in the United States but peaked at number nine in Canada.

Music and lyrics

Musically, the song is based on

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's 1983 hit "

Holiday A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tra ...

". DJ Martin van der Schagt had a home studio where he recorded the demo version of "Holiday Rap" using the original tape loops of Madonna's "Holiday". Not possible for a commercial release, producer

Ben Liebrand Ben Liebrand () (born 27 September 1960 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands) is a Dutch dance music DJ and remixer. He has produced for artists such as Forrest and MC Miker G & DJ Sven and remixed tracks by artists such as Alexander O'Neal, Salt-N- ...

figured out which instruments were used in the original and re-recorded the music from scratch as opposed to sampling the original, with different lyrics and new melodies. In the lyrics, both singers tell of their summer vacations in various towns, such as London and New York.Elia Habib, ''Muz hit. tubes'', p. 85 () The song also features an interpolation of the chorus of

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's " Summer Holiday". The music video for the song was named by

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as the worst video of 1986. In 1987, Russian Sergey Minaev, a Soviet DJ and pop singer of the mid-1980s, who specialized in humorous songs and musical parodies, performed his version called "DJ's Rap ( Рэп дискжокея)" with new lyrics about

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in satirical key. It gained strong popularity throughout the USSR in 1989, when music video was released.

Track listings

Charts

Weekly charts

"Holiday Rap" "Holiday Rap '91"

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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* {{Authority control 1986 debut singles Cultural depictions of Madonna Dutch Top 40 number-one singles European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles Holiday songs Male vocal duets MC Miker G & DJ Sven songs Number-one singles in Belgium Number-one singles in Germany Number-one singles in Italy Number-one singles in Switzerland SNEP Top Singles number-one singles