Risin' to the Top
| "Risin' to the Top" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Keni Burke | ||||
| from the album Changes | ||||
| Released | May 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
| Studio | Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 5:15 | |||
| Label | RCA (JT-13272, US) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Norma Jean Wright, Kenneth M. Burke, Allan W. Felder | |||
| Producer(s) | Kenneth M. Burke | |||
| Keni Burke singles chronology | ||||
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"Risin' to the Top" is a song by former Five Stairsteps member Keni Burke. Released in 1982 from the Changes album, it became his most successful hit as a solo artist, peaking at number 63 on the 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.