... Blondie's “Rapture.” “It was unusual for a rock band,” Clem Burke said, “to be doing those types of things. That is certainly one of the things that made Blondie so unique, and of course I give credit to Chris.” When, in 1979, a Melody ...
... Blondie's Rapture ( 1981 ) - and three recent hip - hop records ( Flash's own Birthday Party , 8th Wonder by the Sugarhill Gang , and Spoonie Gee's Monster Jam ) .23 The core of Flash's collage is the basic Good Times riff ( a char ...
... Rapture , " a song that would be released twelve days into 1981 as the second single off Blondie's Autoamerican album . " Rapture " is sometimes pitched as the first true rock - rap collaboration . That depends on your defini- tion ...
... Blondie's " Rapture " ( 1980 ) , the segment also points out that rap is specific to black urban culture . The critic Lisa Robinson infers that rap's affiliation with black urban culture is seen to be threatening to the con- servative ...
... Blondie's " Rapture " and Chaka Khan's " I Feel For You " ; 28 and could talk the talk about the bands ( e.g. , the J. Geils Band , Van 28 years My first exposure to true rap ( “ King Tut ” and “ Rapture ” don't count ) came in early ...
... Rapture Riders ( The Doors ' " Riders on the Storm ” vs. Blondie's " Rapture " ) 9. Ultra 396- Intergalactic Friends ( Beastie Boys ' " Intergalactic " vs. The Dandy Warhols ' " We Used to Be Friends " ) 10. Dsico - Love Will Freak Us ...
... Blondie's ' Rapture . ” 109. “ Sylvia Robinson ' the Queen of Rap , ” 6 . 110. Quoted in ibid . 111. “ Top Album Picks , ” Billboard , August 15 , 1981 , 80 . 112. Lawrence , Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor , 289 . 113. Brian ...
... Rapture " ( Blondie ) Rapture , The Rascals , The Rasputina Rastafarianism Rat at Rat R Rat Bastards , The Rat Cage Records Rats of Unusual Size Rattlers , The Rat , Tommy Rat Trap ( movie ) Raunch Hands Rauschenberg , Robert Ravan ...
... Blondie's ' Rapture ' became the first record featuring a rap to go to number one . ' Rapture ' celebrated the advent of hip hop and name - checked various denizens of the downtown scene . Henceforth , particularly with hip hop - and in ...
... Blondie's “ Rapture . ” The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved March 11 , 2023 , from https://www.wsj.com/articles / the - rap - in - blondies - rapture - 11560178671 12. Abdurraqib , Hanif . ( 2018 , October 8 ) . From Vanilla Ice to ...