🎵 Blondie - Rapture REACTION

she took a rap song to no.1 in 1981, that deserves a lot of credit, blondie does so many genres you cant put her just one, good reaction

Lots of influences in Blondie: Punk, Rock, Disco, Funk, Jazz. They were cutting edge in that moment in time

This song was most white Americans first introduction to the new, underground sounds of rap. Debra(Blondie) and her boyfriend (guitar player) hung out with some of rap's pioneers in NYC like Grandmaster Flash and Fab Five Freddy both mentioned in the song. The only other rap song popular back then was Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight.

Blondie had all the genres at their disposal -- Punk, New Wave, Reggae, Rap. There was a lot going on at the time and they dipped into all of it. The Police did the same.

Brad's face when Blondie started dropping bars......PRICELESS

You've heard their disco (Heart of Glass), their rock (Call Me), their punk (One Way or Another), and their rap (Rapture). Next you gotta hear their reggae: "The Tide is High". They are a chameleonic band.

According to the BBC, Blondie was born in the underground music scene of 1970s New York, and it was here that Harry and Stein encountered many of the early pioneers of American rap and hip hop. They were keen supporters of this emerging genre, and developed friendships with many early rap artists, including Fab Five Freddie and Grandmaster Flash, who Harry would later explicitly reference in ‘Rapture’.

That is very insightful for you both to imagine what it was like when Blondie released Rapture, and you are 100% correct because I was a teenager at that time. When Heart of Glass came out, the song seemed to materialize out of nowhere. There was no precedent for that style of singing mixed with the beatbox and the synthesizers. It was very futuristic. Then Blondie pulled it off again with Rapture. We WERE like, "Whaaa?" Another totally new sound. This band was ahead of their time.

One of the most important singles ever released.

Debbie Harry loved the underground hip hop movement of the time and felt that it deserved to be exposed to more people. So she wrote this song to give the mainstream a taste of what she loved hearing at the clubs. This really helped rap and hip hop take hold across the nation.

Blondie was a musical sponge. There's hints of punk, rock, new wave, disco, ska and reggae. Not always my style of music but I always appreciated how musically inclusive they were.

Rap was a very underground type of music back in the day and Blondie brought to the mainstream which opened many doors for other rap artists to be heard. The song was ahead of it’s time and the first rap song to go to #1. It’s difficult to describe what that era was like unless you were there. So glad you guys are reacting to Deborah Harry and Blondie. None of their songs sound the same. Love it!❤️🙌🏼

This song was released as a single in January, 1981 and was a HUGE worldwide hit. The famous video for it was made around the same time, and when MTV began in August, 1981 they played it often for years. Lex is right about the punk influence, because Blondie started as a punk band in NYC. I lived in Manhattan most of my life and, if you’ve ever spent time there, you know this song fits NYC. Debbie Harry is one of those iconic New Yorkers that still lives there.

The DJ at 2:00 is Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who sold his first painting to Debbie Harry in 1981. His pieces are now among the most desired & expensive artworks in the world.

You're absolutely right. When this came out it was revolutionary. Rap was very underground and just getting going so Blondie brought it to the masses. For most people, this was the very first time they had heard someone rap. It was exciting and new. Great sounding song too. Love the instrumentation.

with the mention of E coast DJ Fab 5 Freddie, this is one of the earliest rap songs to go mainstream and gain acceptance.

In 1979 "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top three in the United Kingdom and number-one in Canada. It's in the title, in 1981 "Rapture", and how she pronunciations the word Rap-ture. She intended to have Rapping in the song as Blondie would have been around those in the Hip hop scene even. Blondie even had Fab Five Freddy in the video and mentioned him in the song. Fab Five Freddy is one it the first pioneers in hip hop. It was the first number-one single in the United States to feature rap vocals.

When Blonde released Rapture rap music was in its infancy and all the rap artists were sampling music from other artists. Rapture was the first song featuring rap lyrics to reach number 1 in the United States, and it featured all original music and no sampling. It was also the first video aired on MTV to feature rap music.

That one scene, right before she starts to rap she’s talking with a DJ, that’s The legendary painter Basquiat… The first painting he ever sold was to Debbie Harry(The singer of Blondie) now his paintings sell for up to $40 million and can be seen all over, like in museums in Los Angeles, New York.. back then the only people that knew him were people in the New York music and art scene. Including Andy Warhol. He died in 1988 at the age of 28. For all of us 80s New Yorkers, this video is an important piece of our art and music history.

This was the first number-one single in the United States to feature rap vocals and the first major hip-hop song to use original music, rather than samples. AND not only became the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV, but was part of its first 90-video rotation. Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein were friends with hip-hop artist Fab 5 Freddy in the late 1970s. Freddy took them to a rap event in the Bronx one night in 1978, and they were both impressed. They went to a few more such events, before deciding to write a rap song of their own in late 1979. They decided to combine what they had seen and heard in the Bronx with Chic-inspired disco music. Chris Stein was a fan of B-movies, science fiction imagery, so he wrote some surreal verses about a man from Mars. For the chorus, Debbie tried to capture the feeling of a crowded hip-hop dance floor in the Bronx. Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artists Lee Quiñones and Jean-Michel Basquiat make cameo appearances in the video. remixed from Wikipedia