Stranger in a Strange Land was among the first songs with rap to top the US Billboard Hot 100 charts .
`` Stranger in a Strange Land on the 1971 album Leon Russell and the Shelter People and Blondie 's inclusion of a rap section in their 1981 single , `` '' Rapture '' '' , were some of the first songs with rap to top the U.S . Billboard Hot 100 charts.  ''