M.C. Miker 'G' & Deejay Sven: "Holiday Rap" (1986)

"Holiday Rap" is a 1986 rap song recorded by Dutch band MC Miker G & DJ Sven. Debut single of the duet, it was released in most European countries in 1986 and achieved success, topping the chart in France (it was the first rap number-one hit and the 591st best-selling single of all time in that country), Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. While a relative failure in the U.S., the single managed to reach the Top 10 in Canada in the spring of 1987.

Musically, the song used a sample from Madonna's 1983 hit "Holiday", with different lyrics and a melodious music. In the lyrics, both singers tell their summer vacations in various towns, such as London and New York. The song also featured the chorus of Cliff Richard's "Summer Holiday".

Following the success of the "Holiday Rap", Russian Sergey Minaev, a pop singer of the mid 80s performed his cover called "Dj's Rap (Рэп дискжокея)", which gained in strong popularity troughout the USSR in 1989.

The music video illustrating the song was named by MuchMusic as the worst video of 1987.

In 2011, the song was remixed as electro house by Hypnofonia, a DJ duo based in Quebec City, Canada.


- Lyrics:

Celebrate simple ways
With your …
We take the holidays with all our friends
It’s a time to relate
Leave your worries behind
It took me several weeks when cross my mind
It was prime of the time we never forget
One morning our parents kicked us out of bed
We told them that the stupid don’t play the fool
But the answer was shouted you gotta go to school
Geez running up and down and every body know
That …
While the G rocks the house and you know what I’m saying
Now when he’s on the mic there’ll be no delaying
So you better run to see him in your neighborhood
He check it out
He’s out of words we say
Scream it out we need a holiday
We’re gonna ring a rang a dong for the holidays
Put your arms in the air
Let me hear you say
We’re gonna ring a rang a dong for the holidays
Put your arms in the air
Let me hear you say
Mike and Dee are here let me hear you say
Hey check out the new style we just played

(chorus)
We are going on a summer holiday
If you want to go you’ll swim
We’re going to London and New York City
And we’ll take a little piece of Amsterdam
Right
We are going on a summer holiday
If you want to go you’ll swim
We’re going to London and New York City
And we’ll take a little piece of Amsterdam
Right

I want a holiday
I’ll scream it loud
School is the only thing I got
… I better go
Because hanging on the street
And street get show
And the bot rocks
What happened to you?
I told him it’s my life I know what I’m doin’
I started school I thought I’d never stay
Give me several weeks again I need a holiday

Well this is my partner with the number one jam
Famous in the boogie in Amsterdam
He’s the fastest rapper yo his name is Miker G
His rap is longer than a sucker MC
Well let me show you what my man can do
Rapping talking and the Boogaloo too
Well anyways, no more delays
Just listen to the beat box he will play

My name is Dee Jay Sven and also DJ
I didn’t like the school so I took the other way
I like the mic
So I use my voice and soon I got me a big Rolls Royce
That’s why my name is Miker G
Use the honey days with the F-I-C
On the street with the party …
I groove in thie world starting in the neighborhood
We are going on a summer holiday

We’re gonna ring a rang a dong for the holidays
Put your arms in the air
Let me hear you say
We’re gonna ring a rang a dong for the holidays
Put your arms in the air
Let me hear you say
Mike and Dee are here let me hear you say
Hey check out the new style we just played

(chorus)

Write is the thing most rappers do
Yo I can write my shit too
I can understand things most rappers say
Because rapping is my thing and I do it every day
I’m the number one rapper yo my name is Sven
I could rap more raps than Superman can
So I’m the guy on your radio
Also rapping to the rhythm on your stereo
And you don’t stop the party rocks
And you don’t stop the party rocks
Spell my name right I’m Miker G
M I K E R and D and C
Yo M is Microphone and G is Genius
Miker G in the house get serious

And you know that
And you show that
It starts when so let’s go back

(chorus with variation until end)