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marble falls

(57,112 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:12 PM Mar 10

Blondie - Rapture

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Blondie - Rapture (Original Post) marble falls Mar 10 OP

Love Blondie!!! Buttoneer Mar 10 #1

Clem Burke is amazing in "Dreaming" Just watch him in the vid Buttoneer Mar 10 #2

I've heard this discussed as the first rap song. amerikat Mar 11 #3

amerikat........... Upthevibe Mar 11 #4

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I did some research... Pluvious Mar 11 #6

Buttoneer

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1. Love Blondie!!!

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Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:14 PM

Mar 10

Buttoneer

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2. Clem Burke is amazing in "Dreaming" Just watch him in the vid

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Sun Mar 10, 2024, 10:16 PM

Mar 10

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amerikat

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3. I've heard this discussed as the first rap song.

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Mon Mar 11, 2024, 12:19 AM

Mar 11

could be.

Upthevibe

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4. amerikat...........

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Mon Mar 11, 2024, 01:02 AM

Mar 11

I also have considered it as one of the first rap songs. What a great tune!

This one also has a touch of a rap type feel:

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Pluvious

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6. I did some research...

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Mon Mar 11, 2024, 06:17 PM

Mar 11

Depending on how you define "popular", the first rap song could be either "Rapper's Delight" or "King Tim III (Personality Jock)". Both songs were influential and groundbreaking in the history of hip hop music.

Both released in '79

A year after the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper's Delight” in 1979, Blondie recorded “Rapture,” the first major hip-hop hit to use original music rather than sampling other artists' beats. Released on Blondie's “Autoamerican” album in late 1980, the single, co-written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, reached No.

So, in a way, Rapture was the first - original - rap song

If you've never heard it before, Mark Vidler's mashup called "Rapture Riders" is pretty cool:

Info: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/nov/20/3

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