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Posted By dadesider 1 year, 3 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentBlondie Rapture, 1981... rap???
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dadesider1 year, 3 months ago
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Rapture" was a combination of New Wave pop, funk, jazz and rap music, with the rap section forming an extended coda. While it was not the first single involving rap to be successful, it was the first to top the charts. The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight", a straightforward rap track also based on Chic's "Good Times", and obviously also an inspiration for "Rapture", reached #36 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, and went gold. Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" was released in 1980, and became the second rap single to be certified gold. The lyrics of "Rapture" included references to hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash. Freddy and fellow graffiti artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lee Quinones made cameo appearances in the music video, one of the first broadcast on MTV.
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Wolfie20071 year, 3 months ago
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I have friends who laughed at me for liking Blondie but I did and still do. My favorite Blondie tune.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE=related
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Mutainia1 year, 3 months ago
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dadesider1 year, 3 months ago
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Ali??.. I know Blondie, DMC and Beastie Boys...
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The dubbed dancehall toasts of Jamaica, as well as the disco-rapping and jazz-based spoken word beat poetry of the United States was a predecessor for the rapping in hip hop music. Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet/musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America and Johannesberg, has been cited as an influence on many rappers. He released his first album in 1970. Similar in style, the Last Poets who formed in 1969 recited political poetry over drum beats and other instrumentation were another predecessor for rap music. They released their debut album in 1970 reaching the top ten on the Billboard charts. One of the first rappers in the beginning of the Hip Hop period, in the end of '70s, was also hip hop's first DJ; Kool Herc. Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started delivering simple raps at his parties. As Herc would explain in a 1989 interview,
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doublednominal1 year, 3 months ago
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It's always hard to find the first of anything-everything evolves - I'm sure you could find some early blues that has a rap aspect - probably earlier too. Dadesider -nice mention of Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets- will have to dig around my record collection and have a listen.
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I'm sure Blondie would never want to take credit for inventing rap - certainly they did no harm in bringing it some global attention.
Blondie's one of the few bands from my early youth that I still think stands the test of time, not that anyone cares. -
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Wolfie20071 year, 3 months ago
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Thanks for the tip dade, now here is my favorite Blondie.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE&fea...
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