March 28, 1981 –
Blondie’s venture into rap, the song Rapture hit no. #1 on the Billboard charts, on this date.
Harry’s rap is so goofy that it sounds like she could be mocking the genre, but this was very early in the evolution of hip-hop, and many of the rhymes that came out of the New York block parties were just as silly. Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie championed rap and got involved in the community, often attending these block parties – they even took Nile Rodgers to one, which is where he learned that his song Good Times was a DJ favorite.
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