Risin' to the Top

"Risin' to the Top"
Single by Keni Burke
from the album Changes
ReleasedMay 1982
Recorded1981
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreR&B
Length5:15
LabelRCA (JT-13272, US)
Songwriters
ProducerKenneth M. Burke
Keni Burke singles chronology
"Shakin'"
(1982) 		"Risin' to the Top"
(1982) 		"Hang Tight"
(1982)

"Risin' to the Top" is a song by former Five Stairsteps member Keni Burke. Released in 1982 from his third solo album, Changes (1982), it became his most successful hit as a solo artist, peaking at number 63 on the US Billboard R&B charts and is considered Burke's signature song.

Since its 1982 release, the song has been sampled extensively in R&B and hip-hop songs, most notably the following year in the Mary Jane Girls song "All Night Long". The song appears in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in the fictional radio station VCFL.

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