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Although Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first music video with a rap aired on MTV, Run-D.M.C.’s “Rock Box” was the first Hip-Hop music video by a rap group aired on MTV

MTV (Music Television Network) launched on August 1, 1981. Blondie‘s music video for Rapture—which released that same year—was the 48th video aired on MTV’s launch day and Rapture became the first music video with a rap aired on MTV. In the music video for Rapture, you see Blondie’s frontwoman Debbie Harry walking through the city

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Although Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first song with a rap to go No. 1, Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” was the first No. 1 rap song by a rapper

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Blondie‘s genre-crossing 1981 single Rapture, went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 six weeks after her Saturday Night Live episode where she brought out Funky 4+1. Rapture—which was on Blondie’s fifth album Autoamerican—was a radical disco song with a rap verse, in which Debbie Harry gives a shout-out to Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash. Rapture

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The Sequence’s “Funk You Up” was the first Hip-Hop single by a female group

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The Sequence was a female trio from South Carolina consisting of Angie “Angie B” Stone, Cheryl “The Pearl” Cook and Gwendolyn “Blondy” Chisolm. After being backstage at a Sugarhill Gang concert and impressing Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson, The Sequence got signed to Sugar Hill Records and released “Funk You Up” in December 1979, the first

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Wild Style, written, directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn, was the first Hip-Hop movie

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Written, directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn, Wild Style, the first Hip-Hop movie was released in 1983. The movie featured Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, Busy Bee, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, The Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, Zephyr, and Blondie’s Debbie Harry. Wild Style tells the story of a graffiti artist named Zoro

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ABC News 20/20 presented the first national television coverage of Hip-Hop

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In July 1981, Eight years after DJ Kool Herc’s party in the Bronx which marked the birth of Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop, “the overnight phenomenon” received it’s very first National Television Coverage on ABC News’ 20/20. The segment was called “Rappin’ to the Beat” and was hosted by Steve Fox, who credited Blondie’s “Rapture” for bringing it

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Funky 4+1 was the first rap group to appear on national television

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February 14, 1981 –– Valentine’s Day 1981, marked the first time a hip-hop group appeared on national television. Blondie’s Deborah Harry was the host and musical guest on the Valentine’s Day 1981 season- six episode of Saturday Night Live. She sang covers of Teddy Pendergrass’ “Love TKO” backed by the SNL house band and Devo’s “Come Back Jonee.” joined onstage by Blondie

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Although Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first music video with a rap aired on MTV, Run-D.M.C.’s “Rock Box” was the first Hip-Hop music video by a rap group aired on MTV

Although Blondie’s “Rapture” was the first song with a rap to go No. 1, Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” was the first No. 1 rap song by a rapper

The Sequence’s “Funk You Up” was the first Hip-Hop single by a female group

Wild Style, written, directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn, was the first Hip-Hop movie

ABC News 20/20 presented the first national television coverage of Hip-Hop

Funky 4+1 was the first rap group to appear on national television

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