Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)

"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)"
One of 1982 UK 12-inyl vinyl re-releases
Single by Wham!
from the album Fantastic
Released	16 June 1982 January 1983 (Special US Re-Mix)
Format	7" 12"
Recorded	1982
Genre	Post-disco dance-pop pop-rap
Length	3:30 (7") 3:28 (7" U.S. Re-Mix) 6:36 (Unsocial) 6:43 (Special U.S. Re-Mix)
Label	CBS Innervision
Writer(s)	George Michael Andrew Ridgeley
Producer(s)	Bob Carter
Wham! singles chronology
"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" (1982) "Young Guns (Go for It!)" (1982)
Alternative cover art 1983 UK vinyl re-release

"Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)" is the debut single by British pop duo Wham! on Innervision Records, released in 1982. It was written by Wham! members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.

Although rap was still an underground and almost exclusively American phenomenon in the early 1980s, as the title implies, Michael rapped a number of verses about the joys of living every day to the fullest, reveling in unemployment and celebrating government assistance from the Department of Health and Social Security (the initials "DHSS" are repeatedly chanted during the song). The explicitly political song flew in the face of the conventional British left-wing who were talking about the 'Right to work' at the time. The chorus asked the question "Do you enjoy what you do?", which brought about the bracketed section of the title. The video depicted Michael and Ridgeley in their leather jackets, combining their moody image with a bright, effervescent choreography.

The song, which had been tentatively released in June 1982 when Wham! were unknowns and failed to make any impact, was re-issued in January 1983 after the duo had achieved their breakthrough with "Young Guns (Go for It!)". It subsequently reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart, the second of four hits from Wham!'s debut album Fantastic.

Uncharacteristically for Wham!, the Unsocial Mix of the song contains multiple repetitions of the swear words damn, bullcrap and crap. All versions include 'don't need this crap'. These lines were included to illustrate the band's then rebellious image, and future songs by Wham! would mostly refrain from using this type of language (although "Battlestations" does include an instance of 'bullshit'). Both the Social Mix and the Fantastic album version have different verses to the Unsocial Mix, thus there are three different sets of verse lyrics altogether. However, only the album version has appeared on CD.