SHES RAPPING?! Blondie - rapture | FIRST TIME REACTION | Dayle reacts

[@petersp63]

The First song with Rap Lyrics to make US Number 1!!! Trend Setter! oh and they had the song down without the Rap Debbie said give me 15mins and went and wrote it in 10!!!!

[@ract46]

Here in the UK the groups biggest hits were: 1978: Denis, (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear, Picture This, Hanging On The Telephone 1979: Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Dreaming, Union City Blue 1980: Atomic, Call Me, The Tide Is High 1981: Rapture 1982: Island Of Lost Souls, War Child 1999: Maria, Nothing Is Real But The Girl

[@TheGathumpus]

Think this was the first time Rap made the main pop charts. Blondies three top tracks were Heart Of Glass, Call me and The Tide Is High. Blondie is the group, Debby Harry is the singer she was a model then a part of the "Punk Era" then pop.

[@davidw7]

"Heart of Glass" - Blondie. Came out in 79 as a single in its hit version as their top song/video. Even most young people know it as Debbie Harry looking gorgeous and great song... bit disco.... was part of the era into the 80s. Blondie youtube sight has many great videos... sadly, might not be able to react to... showing how Debbie Harry late 70s early 80s was waaaay ahead of her time in dress, hair, look. Videos song -"The Hardest Part" she is a brunette and great outfit..... 4.6 mil views and song - Dreaming at 17 mil views and others in virtually HD. Worth a look even if cannot react to..... should be able to do "Heart of Glass" video though... that one generally does get thru for reactions... and again here arguably top song with video.

[@paulsmith2516]

Welcome to the BIRTH of hip hop. This was the first track EVER to feature a rap in 1979 when the genre was still a New York house party phenomenon. Fab Five Freddy was one of the first ever famous rappers and "Flash" is the inimitable, legendary OG DJ Grandmaster Flash. Soon after this Rappers Delight came out and the rest was history.

[@JeffDeLong-r6i]

Blondie was a group way ahead of their time. Incorporating punk, new wave, reggae, pop, rock, disco and rap. Lead singer Debbie Harry a true icon. Try Heart of Glass, Dreaming, Atomic, One Way or Another, Hanging on the Telephone, Call Me, Hardest Part.

[@cshubs]

This was the intro to rap that most white Americans got. If you were interested, you would move on to Grandmaster Flash. This song came out as a single in 1981.

[@mainmac]

It was several years after this song was a hit before I even heard of rap as a genre honestly, and some time before I found out Deborah Harry hadn't invented it. BTW the DJ was supposed to be Grandmaster Flash but couldn't make it, so the artist Basquiat filled in. The two graffiti artists are Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, they created all the graffiti art in the video.

[@laurasmith2522]

Ty for watching with an open kind and getting it ty and keep having fun

[@garyrobb5341]

I read that she made up the fun whimsical lyrics in about 15 minutes before the performance. She’s so cute and pretty that it would be good even if she were reciting the alphabet.

[@franklopez2803]

In the early 80s MTV would not play rap videos. Once this came out they had to play it because Blondie was a huge band/brand. It was middle America’s intro to rap.

[@Lilione111]

Intro for many places. Also Australia. I still remember I saw this on tv…very early 80s.

[@gerryadams7075]

Call Me is a must listen. If you do, don't listen to the music video version as it is criminally shortened. Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone and Accidents Never Happen are must listens as well.

[@Agent77X]

Deborah Harry was a Playboy Bunny at the famous NYC mansion for 3 years in the 1960s! Heart Of Glass, Call Me, Dreaming are some of Blondie hits!

[@spruce381]

First song with rap to chart in the UK. I was 13. In my memory I’d heard the message before this, but maybe not. Defo got into Public Enemy snd Ll cool j a year later. The whole Ny scene, cbgbs, was a melting pot of styles. Love the brummie reaction. 👍🏽👍❤️

[@RNDReacts]

Fascinating, that’s super cool that for a lot of people this was probably their first introduction to rap, she was really cool with it aswell haha, this song is a really cool fusion of genres. And thanks! Hopefully the accent isn’t too jarring to the viewers 😄😂😅

[@terrylandess6072]

The creativity of youth can not be commercialized. As soon as something artistic become popular enough, the suits all charge in for a slice. Eventually something else new and 'free' is introduced, so there's always something to look forward to.

[@bertusvanhal8855]

This was the first rap at nr.1 in the Billboard chart. ….Blondie.

[@johnhickman2033]

Union City Blue followed by Atomic. Plastic Letters is a great album also....

[@reallifealbundy]

The guy standing at the turntables was the famous painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.

[@michaelminch5490]

Warhol protege.

[@mainmac]

Was supposed to be Grandmaster Flash but he couldn't make it, so they grabbed Basquiat to fill in, lol.

[@GuillermoQuezada]

First rap song to hit the radio waves was by a white girl named Deborah Harry (Lead Singer of Blondie. You need to react to "Heart of Glass"

[@davidw7]

She did not stick with rap in songs though... early evolution in NYC scene that did not yet get much traction.

[@miked2445]

I still want some time with Debbie. This woman casts a spell that lasts until you die, apparently.

[@RNDReacts]

Hahaha, it feels wrong for me to try and look at her like that as I wasn’t even born when this came out, she looks stunning in this video though I can’t lie

[@geraldjensen6831]

You young people missed sooooo much! You're parents and grandparents were waaaaayyyy cooler than you ever imasgined! Your voyage into truly GREAT music--the BEST popular music of ALL TIME--is just beginning! This 79-year-old has a LOT of suggestions if you are interested...check out The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Mama and the Papas, The Who, the Guess Who, Peter Frampton, The Eagles, The Youngbloods, Burton Cummings...andf then there'ss Mo-Town--Marbin Gaye, Ben E. King, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry, The Supremes, Dione Warwick--want more Blondie? The Tide is high, Call Me, Heart of Glass...

[@reallifealbundy]

Blondie has hits upon hits. Heart of glass is a good one.

[@seandobson6221]

I’ll fight anyone who tries to say anything about this not being the first mainstream rap song. And it was by a woman! Yes I understand there were already rap groups but they weren’t getting airplay yet on MTV when all they did was MUSIC not reality tv. Debra Harry is a freakin legend. She was in several movies. She played witch that has a boy in a cage and is going to cook him but he convinces her he could tell her scary stories. The movie was called Tales of the Darkside. She was also in horror/body horror legend David Cronenberg’s acid trip of a movie Videodrome.

[@BluesJammer69]

This and Heart of Glass...

[@ellerootz6702]

Tha jam!

[@desertflow3r]

Debbie Harry was an icon. I loved Blondie.

[@michaelminch5490]

IS an icon.

[@kristenwestlund5802]

I believe this was the first "rap" song to go #1 in the Billboard

[@laurasmith2522]

The younger generation croticises this often, however it was thev80scand it was fun and she ad the 1st rap song on MTV & that hot the charts in US and yes it's about the man from Mars and bars and music that's what was happening in the 80s d9nt 0eople ding a out what's happening " now" as rule ?

[@alphacrusis2632]

The first rap song to hit no. 1 on the billboard charts in 1981