The post The Story Behind Blondie’s Iconic “Rapture” appeared first on Consequence. Which brings us to one of Blondie’s signature songs, the cleverly titled “Rapture.” In 1981, the Autoamerican single ...

A year after the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979, Blondie recorded “Rapture,” the first major hip-hop hit to use original music rather than sampling other artists’ beats. Released ...

These days, few songs get to #1 unless they're at least rap-adjacent. But for nearly its first decade of existence, rap music came nowhere near the pop charts. For a long time, it never even came ...

The iconic Blondie track has been sampled and revered since hitting the US top spot in 1981 Blondie’s classic Rapture hit the top of the US charts 44 years ago today (March 28 2025) The song has ...

Playing this new music live, and introducing trends to the masses, as Blondie did with its 1980 song “Rapture,” which name checked hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash and was the ...

One of the most versatile classic rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s was Blondie. Blondie songs took ideas from many genres, including disco, rock, pop, new wave, doo-wop, rap, and reggae. It’s ...

In the end, the weekend’s solar storm didn’t end up shorting out this year’s Cruel World festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday (May 11). Instead, bands including Duran Duran, ...

The year is 1981. “Rapture” is Blondie’s second single from their fifth studio album—it’s been in the number one spot for weeks—and it’s the first ever rap video to be shown on MTV. And there he is: ...

The first go-round for the New York new-wave band – one of the leaders of the punk-parallel movement, along with Television and the Talking Heads – famously disintegrated in 1982, after charting a ...