Blow’s club gigs around Harlem and the Bronx made him an underground sensation, and Billboard magazine writer Robert Ford approached Simmons about making a record. Blow cut a song co-written by Ford and financier J.B. Moore called “Christmas Rappin’,” and it helped him get a deal with Mercury once the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” had climbed into the R&B Top Five.
