Tonight I want to lay some sly lyrics on you. I feel that I need to quote the queen of 80s hip hop, Deborah Harry, at this point:
"Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mindFlash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe too toe
Don't move to slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, to punk rock"
And that my friends was the first time main stream America was exposed to hip hop. Oddly enough, almost everyone today is unaware that the first rap lyrics sung on mainstream radio were performed by a white woman.
Discover more songs from Blondie at my playlist on Spotify.
Hip hop music had existed as a music performed by street artists in New York City since the early 1970s, but it took this song to take the art form from the underground to the main stream.
Indeed Blondie was a band that was ahead of it's time in many ways. The bands sound was a mixture of punk, rock, disco, new wave and in this case hip hop.
Here is Deborah Harry rappin her little heart out alongside Fab Five Freddie in tonight's video for Rapture:
Here is some history:
Here is your bonus video ... I wish Debb was waiting for my call!
Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After attending college, she worked various jobs, including as a secretary, dancer, and Playboy Bunny, before breaking through in the music industry. Harry co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released their eponymous debut album in 1976, and released a further three albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines, which spawned six singles, including "Heart of Glass". Their fifth record, Autoamerican (1980), afforded Harry and the band further attention, spawning such hits as a cover of "The Tide Is High", and "Rapture", the latter of which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States.
Trust me, every guy of my generation was in love with Debbie Harry!
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