6. Deborah Harry - Rapture

Anatomy of a Verse

14-10-2020 • 26 mins

The first rapper to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 was not Vanilla Ice, or MC Hammer, but Debbie Harry from the band Blondie. On this episode, we examine how the song Rapture helped fuse two parallel music scenes in New York City, and how Fab Five Freddy played a key role in that merger.