Blondie - Rapture (1980)

Rapture" is a single by the American new wave band Blondie. It was released in January 1981 and became one of the first substantial hit singles to involve rap music, and the first rap-influenced single to reach number one on the US Billboard Chart. It was the second and final song to be released from the band's 1980 album Autoamerican, the first being "The Tide Is High", which had topped the chart in the US and UK. "Rapture" went on to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and number five in the UK singles chart. The B-side was "Walk Like Me", also from Autoamerican. The song was the first #1 hit in the U.S. to feature rapping.

Rapture is a combination of New Wave pop, funk, jazz and rap music, with the rap section forming an extended coda While it was not the first single involving rap to be successful, it was the first to top the charts.
Debuting in 1981, the music video was the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV.
The lyrics, "Flash is fast, flash is cool" are a reference to pioneering Hip-Hop DJ Grandmaster Flash. Hip-Hop promoter and former host of Yo! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddie is in the video and is mentioned in the song. He was part of the early rap scene and is credited with helping bring it into the mainstream. Blondie originally met Fab Five Freddy and his crew at a club. They all became friends, and one day Freddy jokingly suggested that Debbie Harry should write a song about them. She did and the result was the rap that is the second half of the song. She sent it to Freddy, he and his crew loved it and she ended up recording it.



 
youtube video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRL9NLQqP8&ob=av2e