Blondie Rap Song

By bridging genres and styles blondie carved out a space and an audience for rap music in the american mainstream music scene laying the groundwork for the hip hop revolution in the later 1980s.

Blondie rap song. Rapture which was on blondie s fifth album autoamerican was a radical disco song with a rap verse in which debbie harry gives a shout out to fab five freddy and grandmaster flash. Anatomy of a song the rap in blondie s rapture debbie harry chris stein and others tell the story of the making of the 1981 hit and the new york music scene that inspired it. It was also. In january 1981 rapture was released as the second and final single from the album.

Rapture blondie song 1980 rapture iio song 2001 rapture hurt song 2006 rapture morbid angel song 1993. To feature rap vocals. The song became their fourth and last single to reach number one on the u s. Andrew from uk who wrote this crap about blondie s rapture not being special yes it was and still is today you have to remember first a song is a track which you sing the lyrics and to rap talk some of the lyrics as in rapture was the first time it had been done like this.

And while rapper s delight was released first and was the first rap song to appear on the us pop chart rapture was the first 1 nationally charting song of its nature. It contained two more no. Rapture by blondie was the first song with a rap to go no. Pop uk 5 hit drum break us 1 hit us dance 1 hit single sampled in more than 20 songs was sampled in 24 songs see all step into a world rapture s delight by krs one 1997.

Rapture is a song by the american pop rock band blondie from their fifth studio album autoamerican 1980. 1 on the hot 100. 1 spending two weeks at no. Secondly music should always be played on real musical instruments.

The reggae styled the tide is high a cover version of a 1967 song written by john holt of the paragons and the rap flavored rapture which was the first song featuring rapping to reach. While blondie may not have invented rap music they were instrumental in facilitating its transition from the periphery to the mainstream. Billboard hot 100 chart where it stayed for two weeks. Debbie harry has known about grandmaster flash since.