FIRST TIME REACTION | Blondie - Rapture (Official Music Video) | SHE PAID HOMAGE TO ALL GENRES! 

This was the first time rap was played on MTV. Blondie is dope. I suggest listening to Heart of Glass.

Blondie, a punk rock band whose biggest hits were a rap song, a disco song and a reggae song =)

Blondie's (Debbie Harry) #1 hit, "Rapture" is considered the first rap song to chart at number 1 in the United States. Citation: Fred Bronson (2003) 'the Billboard Book of Number One Hits' p. 549

1st rap song on billboard. 1st rap song on MTV. Blondie is the band, Debbie Harry is her name.

She shouts out Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash at the start of the rap section. Debbie Harry admits her lyrics were mostly gibberish but she was having fun with it and flowed it well.

Debbie Harry used to hang around in a favorite Hip Hop club because she loved the music but knew that it wasn't breaking through the culture - she took matters into her own hand and put out this song named "RAP-ture" to draw interest to the genre....

She helped bring rap to the mainstream. ❤ Blondie

Heart Of Glass and Call Me were freaking awesome too!! Well worth the listen!!

Blondie's “Rapture” (1980) became the first single featuring a rap to reach number 1 in the USA. She is the original OG!

You're looking at the first commercial success of rap music in the mainstream Artist as far as anyone knows ever. The cool thing is being your parents age we were here to witness it, the music we saw in our time is Indescribable and unrepeatable. Blondie the lead singers Deborah Harry was one of the first and most influential experimental and alternative bands in America

Blondie is the band Debbie Harry is the singer. She was also a well known actress in the 1980's. Now At the age of 78 she is still touring

Blondie Should get more props as the first female bringing rap into a pop song, MTV. This was the first rap i ever heard. After that you saw fat boys, run DMC, curtis blow, big daddy kane and when NWA dropped, it was over!

When the 80’s came they arrived with a bang. Suddenly music took whole new directions. I loved it. I was only 20 yrs old in 1980. MTV was amazjng to us back then!

Fun fact, Jean-Michel Basquiat is the one on the turntables at the beginning of the video. Fab 5 Freddy (correction it's William Barnes, per @kyleanspach3457) is the one in the white top hat and coattails too.

She is responsible for bringing Rap to the mainstream.

BLONDIE WERE AHEAD OF THEIR GAME!!! I believe this was the first time rap aired on MTV in 1980ish. Debbie Harry was an ICONIC frontwoman - she had such an impact on female vocalists - her voice, style and looks - she was an one off! She basically heard rap artists on the streets - hiphop was in it's infancy- so she brought it to the studio & Rapture was the result! They headlined Glastonbury Festival last summer in the 'Legends' slot - still got it! PLEASE REACT to 'Atomic', 'Call Me', 'Heart Of Glass', 'Sunday Girl', 'One Way and Another', 'Hangin On The Telephone' - great band - punk/alterative/new-wave....brilliant! Saw them about 5 years ago at a big music festival - crowd went WILD! More BLONDIE please!👱‍♀🤘

Glad Blondie is getting a bit of credit 😁 Rapture was the first song containing rap I ever heard. Rappers Delight was the next.

I was born in 44 and have enjoyed every genre of music from the 20's on. Definitely born at the right time.

The short version was made in 1979 the extended version was made the same year but the video was put out in 81 she is the first female singer to actually come out with rap before Kurtis Blow. I have the 33 album 1979 now she's becoming more famous than she ever was nice for her😊

In the late 70's she used to hang out in the rap scene and told Fab 5 she would put him in a song. They did so he was in the video. MTV was slow to add wrap to their video line up but Blondie helped spread the word to those who watched MTV to check out the NYC rap scene .❤

KRS-One famously used this in his track, "Step Into A World (Rapture's Delight)" Nobody from the early hip hop scene knew what the hell she was rapping about, but this was the first mainstream exposure that rap ever got. She shouts out Fab Five Freddy, Grand Master Flash, and maybe others. She was definitely shining a light on the new underground music scene call hip-hop. I remember hearing this when I was maybe 8 or 9... and it was mesmerizing to my ears.

Debbie Harry is 78 yrs old now and still looks and sounds great and she is still performing with Blondie. Check out Isle of Wright Festival in 2023.

The first commercially successful rap song ever...by Blondie? Yup. It's true.

When Blondie did this (it was before MTV started in 1980, and featured on the show Friday Night Videos, a precurser to MTV on netword tv on Friday nights after midnight. ) It was the FIRST RAP most of the world had ever heard. Playing a lot in New York's CBGB's with punk acts and budding rap acts like THE BEASTIE BOYS, she was exposed to the Furious Five, and Curtis Blow. Rap had a slow start. In 1982, Herbie Hancock released "ROCK IT" for the breakdance movement that was starting. 1985 we heard Run Dmc and the Beastie boys and a few other acts in the movie KRUSH GROOVE, then the Beasties released Licensed to Ill in 1986 and it was the FIRST RAP ALBUM to sell PLATINUM. So 6 years after this, rap finally got accepted by MTV and just a little bit of mainstream.

Blondie got me through my teenage years.I think the man from mars was a reference to Bowie.

Hey Cliff! you might want to check out" Heart of Glass " released in 1978. I remember telling my coworkers when we first heard it on the radio," This song is going to be a huge Hit" the rest is history.

Crazy to think Blondie started off playing shows wit the Ramones and Talking Heads… imagine witnessing those bands starting off and seeing their progression.. insane bruh

Blondie was new wave but played lots of different types of music. They played at CBGBs along with the Talking Heads, the Ramones. Blondie is a rabbit hole that is great to dive into. Please check out the tide is high and heart of glass.

Blondie's songs are very diverse. Rap, Disco, Punk, New Wave, Reggae, etc.

Seriously, I'd recommend listening to the whole of Blondie's Autoamerican album. Whilst not quite their best album, it is their most eclectic, and spans a whole range of genres from rap, to jazz, to ska, to musicals, and more (plus one of my all-time Blondie favourite songs "Angels on the Balcony").

Your reaction did not disappoint, Cliffbeats! 😂😂😂 And, no, she literally just meant bars a.k.a night clubs. This was so much fun to see!!!

KRS-ONE sampled it for step into a world "Raptures delight", I hope you know BDP cliff 😂😂

Blondie was a band way ahead of their time. Doing Punk, New Wave, Rock, Pop, Rap, and Reggae to name a few. And lead singer Debbie Harry a true icon. Try One Way or Another,Dreaming, Call Me, Atomic, Tide is High, Heart of Glass. Damn just so many others to choose from.

Blondie was my first crush! Check out Atomic, call me or heart of glass

How do you not know Blondie!?! I sing her songs almost every weekend!! ❤

One Way or Another, Heart of Glass, Call Me, The Tide is High

I was just waiting to see what your reaction would be when Debbie started rapping! lol She did a lot of things along the way besides singing...she was a Playboy Bunny & actress as well. But most of her success was with her band Blondie. Blondie was one of the first to incorporate rap into her songs. She loved all kinds of music and tried to incorporate the different styles...like rap. lol I haven't heard this in a minute!

Hey Cliff - man who loves words/lyrics- clues in the title! Rap-ture! Only jesting. You know I loves ya! 😘❤🐀

This is actually the first #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100 to feature a rap break…this band “Blondie” and lead singer “Debbie Harry” were heavy into to underground music scene in NYC during the 70’s and into 80’s and they were also well connected with all of the avant guard artists during same time…this band was in everything artistic in NYC during 70’s and 80’s…back to underground music connections: the band were great friends with all of the major up and coming grandfathers of rap from NYC…this was an homage to those guys.

Heart of Glass and Call Me!! She was and still is amazing. aND yES, bEAUTIFUL

This was released in 1980. It was the first Rap song released on MTV. Suger Hill Gangs Rappers Delight came out the year before, which I believe influenced this song. Lol gotta love 70s and 80s music. I was 18 when this came out. Great Reaction ❤!! Call me is another great song.

Her name is Debbie Harry! BLONDIE is the band. Really like your reactions...

*BLONDIE DEBBIE HARRY DID IT ALL AND STILL DOES IT ALL! BLONDIE HAVE THE FIRST-EVER NUMBER ONE RAP SINGLE AROUND THE WORLD! FIRST RAP EVER WITH THEIR OWN MUSIC, NOT SAMPLING. FIRST BAND IN HISTORY TO HAVE NUMER ONE SINGLES IN THE SEVENTIES, EIGHTIES AND NINETIES! FIRST FEMALE FRONTED BAND IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME! BLONDIE ARE ORIGINALS. OFTEN IMITATED, NEVER DUPLICATED! THANKS FOR SHARING BLONDIE!*

I'm sure since this has been out a month now that you've been told that Debbie Harry doesn't pay homage to Hip Hop, they pay homage to her. And if you want to know what Debbie Harry is about go search down an extended play club version of any of her songs. Before there were Raves and Ecstasy, there were Discotheques and Cocaine. I remember watching lights flashing on all the people around me on the dance floor, all glow in the dark black light freeze-framed in the strobe, dancing in unison to a club version of this that had to have lasted 20 minutes. Debbie's clear voice and that bass line was the definition of hedonistic. It would just roll into another, and another without pause. Remember this the next time you see a 60 something year old lady having trouble with her grocery bags and realize that she was there when Debbie Harry was the tiny little white girl that propelled your music into mainstream and I believe this was the first rap video to ever play on MTV. Debbie Harry broke all of the glass ceilings 😊

7:58 - Yes. RAPTURE for a reason. She's also multilingual and in the video there were shoutouts to all sorts of different cultures and scenes including Haitian AND Louisiana Voodoo.

1:25 - Yessir, 1980 on the dot. (Edit: Album release was 1980, music video came out Jan 31, 1981.)

I would love to see you check out more Blondie. She has some incredible music. Heart of Glass next please.

Both Blondie and Debbie Harry as a solo artist is worth a deep dive

Great reaction. 👍 I love it when first they dint know Blondie, then that she revolutionized rap. 💕

She was very big in the Punk Rock and Disco scenes. She was often performing at CBGBs and was often at Studio 54. She has a big song, 'Call Me' from the movie 'American Giglio'. She has a ton of hits both as the lead singer of Blondie and solo career.

she is the one who introduced us to rap!

The tide is high is a banger!!!!

Blondie is amazing she made some big Well kmow songs

"One Way Or Another" you'll be listening to more Blondie!

she was a big name name back in the day

IIRC Debbie wrote the rap herself in just a few minutes. Marvelous ear for it and a lot else about her is marvelous.

Blondie is the OG to Rap in Mainstream music. I've seen a couple of reactors say they sure were glad they wern't high when they watched this for the first time! 😂

I think Blondie had an accidental double with the line "eating bars." Bars, or clubs, and Bars as in Valium. The ORIGINAL, "No Cuts, No Edits in this Bitch!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! And the line was "now that he's done eating cars and eating bars, now he's eating GUITARS!" or something alone those lines Cindy Lauper "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Time After Time" are MUST reactions Cliff!!! I'm SO happy I was born in 1971!!! It still gets to me how much technology has changed in my 53 years around the sun!!! I had one of the first mobile phones, when they were in a briefcase to the A,T &T "brick" to a smartphone, which I think have made humans dumber as a species!

Love Debbie Harry (Blondie) Fantastic artist...

Blondie started as a punk rock/new wave band but covered just about every genre from punk to reggae, disco to rap and everything in between (and outside). Still recording and touring!

"as soon as you brought the goat in i knew it was a party" Cliff Beats-2024

This was the first #1 Rap song. The men following her at the end was; Fab 5 Freddy, who inspired her to write the song.

Recorded 1980 and released Jan 1981. 1st female rap number one song in the US.

I graduated HS in '80. The 70's - 80's were certainly a great time for music! From everyone being in a garage band, to blasting music driving down the Boulevard, then going to clubs all night when you were old enough. Great time to be alive! One thing we didn't do was stare at phones all day. What fun would that have been?

Debbie Harry formed Blondie with Chris Stein, they were both early hiphop fans. Chris Stein also did the music for the movie Wild Style!

This was great out of the gate...You should check out their original stuff from club clips , a totally different animal...

Blondie started as a punk rock band but got into other genres like Heart of Glass, which made them famous because it was playing it in dance clubs. Got to see them in the 80s at Belmont Park, NY.

We all wanted those flickering red sunglasses while growing up, to be like the Man from Mars. This was iconic for those of us entering the 80s as music "vampires" - checking out all genres. Debbie Harry started it all for females, IMO. She/they made listening/accepting to up & coming rap artists so much easier. Her voice was butter!

This was so much fun at the skating rink. Play Rapper's Delight from Sugar Hill Gang

Back then I didn't care about the lyrics because I was on the dance floor grooving to the beat💃💃

This was the first time most people ever heard rap. This was back before the era of frantic cuts in music videos. The expression on your face as Debbie Harry's rap continues on is priceless!

I was 15 when this came out and had never heard 'rap' but still decided to memories the whole thing and repeat it to my parents lmao.

Blondie is VERY diverse: "Heart of glass" (disco), "Atomic" (punk rock), "The Tide is high" (reggae influence), "Call me" (Rock. Make sure you play the full video. There's one out there that's cut in half), Very talented band. ❤

7:28 Not only those four. Notice the Scottish/Irish jig dancer, the ballet dancer, the guy in the top hat doing an older style American, the women in white in the bar doing a folk dance, etc. She's paying tribute to all kinds of styles of music and dance in this video. Blondie was an amazing band and turned a bunch of us (then-young) white people into rappers in the early 80s. Millions of us can **still** rap this whole thing by heart and this song opened me up to the world of rap. Still one of my favorite genres.

Cliff... we're going to have to edjumakatechu on music from the 1950s into the 2000s. Mostly so that you can see how music evolved over those decades. The 1950s saw the birth of "Rock" music, and it was based on Blues music, which was very popular in the black community. Rock in ALL of its forms, R&B, Hip Hop, Rap, even heavy metal ALL originated from the Blues. I know what you do for a living... "ghost writer" for Hip Hop acts, and that's cool. But you really should get informed about where it all came from. Of course, this will take time, as those decades didn't just throw out "carbon copy" music. It was a slow evolution, and every artist back then sounded unique in their own way. But that's also five DECADES worth of music. But I grew up on all that stuff. 50s and 60s music was popular in my home during the 1970s. My aunt (who lived with us until she got married in 1975, when I was 8 years old) was born in 1952, so she was raised on 50s music, and played it a lot while I was little. She also snuck some 60s music in for me, since my grandmother absolutely HATED that whole "hippy" movement. But that was during the Vietnam era, and that's something you kinda had to be there for (I could write a book about growing up during that time). We also had 70s music playing on the radio, but mostly the "lighter" stuff. "Soft Rock", "Yacht Rock", "Disco"... but I would sneak the harder stuff like Alice Cooper, KISS, Black Sabbath, etc. when she wasn't around to turn it off. ;) Yes, I was a rebellious little shit in the 70s. But anyway.... there is SO much great music to discover from those eras, and I look forward to following you along that path. I think you will benefit greatly from it.

MORE BLONDIE! Please....... Blondie helped me through my early teens if you know what i mean lol

Over on Black Pegasus's channel, he said a hip hop artist( I cant remember who) sampled this beginning music. Rapture was the first "rap" song played on MTV😁🎶🎸🎵

i REALLY enjoyed this video- especially the part where you encourage everyone to follow the band’s official account.

Awesome song. First concert for me was Journey/Blondie on Infinity Tour.

Blondie is recognized as bringing "hip hop" to the disco scene most white people didn't know what rap music was back in 81, it was black street music so she was credited as bringing attention to rap music to the mainstream. Debbie Harry was also part of the New York art scene hence the black guy tagging in the video.

This song was the #1 crossover song for years !!

I grew up in the 80s. I definitely love 80s music.

The story behind the first part of the Rap is based on graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy taking Debbie to a Rap show in 1979, where she sees Grandmaster Flash on the turntables. She thought he was so impressive with his skills, she wrote line, "DJ spinning I said, 'my my... Flash is fast... Flash is cool'..." This was before Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five even got a record deal. But, Blondie were huge fans of Hip-Hop. In 1999, they recorded a Rap song with Coolio, U-God, Havoc and Inspectah Deck. It's the title track to their album, 'No Exit'. Definitely check out the "No Exit" video! Blondie were very much into the New York scene, both Punk and Hip-Hop. And Debbie Harry was also a regular at Studio 54. Also, Blondie and Fab Five Freddy recorded a Christmas Rap titled, "Yuletide Throwdown" in 1980. Freddy is in this video, too. He is the one painting 'Rap' on the wall. And the DJ at the part of the video where she starts rapping is none other than artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Much love and homage to every generation of music.

I was in 8th grade when this came out. Rap & Hip Hop were not heard of outside of NY and LA. No one said "Oh that's RAP" because we didn't know what that was. This hits MTV and was loved by everyone. You can say Blondie made it popular.

She was the second one that I heard rapping on the radio after the Sugar Hill Gangs Rappers Delight.

Debbie Harry was such a gorgeous person .. so much talent as well.. living Goddess ❤

The song was actually recorded in 1980 and released as a single in 81, but the more important point is that Blondie always had an absurdist aesthetic (they had a song on their first album called "Attack of the Giant Ants," for god's sake) and hiphop in 1980 wasn't exactly deep in that period ("I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie/To the hip hip hop-a you don't stop the rock/It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie"). Debbie (the singer) and her boyfriend Chris Stein hung out in rap circles with Fab Five Freddy, Afrika Bambaataa, et al) and they bridged the bag between the NYC downtown scene and the Bronx. In fact, KRS-One sampled Rapture on an early song.

the dj during the first lines of rap was pop artist jean-michel basquiat who also worked as a dj.

There were rap songs before this but they first number 1 song with rap and the 1st rap music video played on MTV in 1981.

I was 10 when this came out, I didn't really understand it but I loved it! The man from Mars eating cars... I used to walk around my house repeating all the lines. Then MTV came along and wow! I recently just saw Debby Harry singing with Billie Eilish on a video for "Is That All There Is? 2022" (Originally sung by Peggy Lee in 1969). I LOVE seeing the two of them together! Music is AMAZING!!!!

Blondie started as a pop band with punk and new wave influences. Most of their music is radio friendly, but their sound evolves with each album. Debbie Harry went full techno pop with het solo album Kookoo in the late 80s.

I grew up in the fifties with every Saturday at the movies to see Men from Mars... this was so cool. Listen to the guitar riff after she says, "And now he only eats guitars!" ...it goes right thru Ya. The people are various friends, artists, and characters from the 'Velvet Underground' type clubs in NYC where she hangs out.

Debbie Harry - Who got the nickname Blondie from all the construction workers in NYC yelling out "Hey Blondie" to her has spanned 5 decades worth of music. She is now 78 and voice is still as good (maybe some of the high notes aren't as high). and tours to this day. She put everything on hold when her best friend and partner Chris (Stein) came down with a disease that thought to be the end of him (and it was not AIDS). Resurrected in 1999 with the album No Exit and the Curse of Blondie in 2003. In 2011, they reemerged again with Panic of Girls. Blondie4Ever (Which re-recorded a lot of their original hits so they could reobtain the song rights from the label, In 2017 the band released it's eleventh studio album Pollinator with some profits going to save our bee population. She has also performed with The Jazz Passengers showing that her range is more than just pop-punk music. She also has acted in multiple movies including Videodrome,. Tales from the Darkside and John Water's original Hairspray movie. They are about to release another studio album and another tour - at 78 nothing is slowing her down.

I read that she wrote the rap lyrics just for fun in about 15 minutes. The video came later. The instrumental outro continues in the long version, audio only. 😊

The Album "The Curse of Blondie had a few nice Tracks like 'Back Ground" and "Desire '

Blondie is the band (American) and the lead singer is Debbie Harry ( British). Blondie was awesome.

Debbie Harry and Blondie were awesome, i remember the first time i heard Heart of Glass, i was an instant fan

Dude, I agree. Lyrics, when there are lyrics, are important. Too many reactors don’t listen to the words, or they talk over the song, missing the meaning of the song. And I do understand that some of the videos can be distracting or not even related to what the songwriter is trying to get across to the listeners. And I can get into the guitars, bass, drums, piano, and all the other instruments, but if the meaning of the message gets lost, then it’s just a cool tune. I began listening to A-Capella nine years ago, starting with Pentatonix, then Voiceplay, Homefree, Straight no chaser, etc. Listening to the classic hits with just pure human voice makes the songs soar with an emotional high.

Blondie is a group...all the men walking out the door with her (Debbie Harry) of the apartment (besides the big guy in the white suit), at the end of the video, are members of the band (the guy she danced closest to, Chris Stein, founded the group with her, in 1975). I STRONGLY RECOMMEND you listen to Blondie's, "Dreaming", "Heart Of Glass", "One Way Or Another", "Picture This", "Union City Blue", "Atomic", "Orchid Club", "Dragonfly" (lyricism GALORE!), "Maria", "Forgive And Forget" (THE LYRICS ON THIS ONE!), "Nothing Is Real But The Girl", "Shakedown" (more rap), "Rules For Living", "What I Heard", "Sugar On The Side", and "My Monster". Trust me, you WON'T REGRET IT. Great reaction...take care. You have the Soul and Ears of a 1980s kid, Man. Rock on.