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Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly DJ spinnin' I said, "My My" Flash is fast, Flash is cool France Soir c'est pas Flash et Nous Deux François c'est pas, Flash ain't no dude And you don't stop, sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and it lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subaru And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars you go out at night And eat up bars where the people meet Face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man Dance toe to toe, don't move too slow 'Cause the man from Mars is through with cars He's eatin' bars, yeah wall to wall Door to door, hall to hall He's gonna eat 'em all Rap-ture, be pure Take a tour through the sewer Don't strain your brain, paint a train You'll be singin' in the rain Said don't stop to punk rock You might also like Dreaming Blondie Unholy Sam Smith & Kim Petras ROSALÍA - BIZCOCHITO (English Translation) Genius English Translations [Verse 3] Man to man, body muscular Seismic decibel, bite the jugular Wall to wall, tea time technology And a digital ladder No sign of bad luck in rapture [Rap 2] Well now you see what you wanna be Just have your party on TV 'Cause the man from Mars Won't eat up bars where the TV's on Now he's gone back up to space Where he won't have a hassle with the human race And you hip-hop, and you don't stop Just blast off, sure shot 'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars And eatin' bars and now he only eats guitars, get up 9 Embed About Genius Annotation 3 contributors People argue over this song’s place in the history of rap. Was it… the first rap song? The first commercial rap song? The first rap song to sell X number of copies / place X on the Billboard charts? The first rap song by a female to be one of the above? The answer to all of the above is “not really,” but it admittedly depends on your definitions. And while “Rapper’s Delight” was released first, and was the first rap song to appear on the US Pop Chart, “Rapture” was the first #1 nationally-charting song of its nature. It was also a top 40 hit in several countries overseas. Fab Five Freddy, who appears in the song’s music video, puts it this way: For a lot of the white, mainstream public, it was the first time that they heard anybody rap, and it kinda paved the way, you could say, for what was about to come. Read this conversation for more insight. Expand +50 Share Ask us a question about this song Ask a question * What have the artists said about the song? Genius Answer 2 contributors In 2011, Debbie Harry told Entertainment Weekly: It was the first piece of music with rap in it that went to number one. I don’t pretend to be a rapper. It was an homage to the form and to the idea of it. But a lot of rappers have told me over the years that that was the first rap song that they ever heard, because rap really wasn’t on the radio in the beginning. It wasn’t really looked at very highly by the industry. Having ‘Rapture’ go to number one sort of legitimized it, in a way. The hip-hop kids and the punk kids always felt related, because we were all deconstructing culture in a way. Here is Harry sharing more about the song: Autoamerican (1980) Blondie 1. Europa 2. Live It Up 3. Here’s Looking at You 4. The Tide Is High 5. Angels on the Balcony 6. Go Through It 7. Do the Dark 8. Rapture 9. Faces 10. T-Birds 11. Walk Like Me 12. Follow Me Expand Credits Produced By Mike Chapman Written By Debbie Harry & Chris Stein Timpani Chris Stein Drums Clem Burke Keyboards Jimmy Destri Bass Nigel Harrison Guitar Frank Infante & Chris Stein Vocals Debbie Harry Saxophone Tom Scott Release Date November 1, 1980 Songs That Sample Rapture Midnight Rapture by Anabel Englund, 1980 by The Hood Internet, Francois by Sir Michael Rocks & The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Songs That Interpolate Rapture SUPREMACY by FEVER 333, Yuletide Throw Down by Blondie And Freddie, Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight) by KRS-One, Wise Guy by Joe Pesci & Step Into A World (Remix) by KRS-One (Ft. Diddy) Rapture Covers Rapture Rapp by Liberty Silver, Soldier Boy | Guest Appearance on Solid Gold by Vought International, RAPTURE by Sophie (ITA), Rapture by Alicia Keys & Rapture by Erasure Rapture Remixes Rapture Riders by Go Home Productions (Ft. Blondie & The Doors) Rapture Live Performances Rapture (Live) by Blondie & Rapture (Live from Havana, 2019) by Blondie View Rapture samples Tags Pop Rock Rap New York Pop Rap Rap-Rock Hip-Hop Pop-Rock New Wave Eighties Disco Expand Comments Add a comment Sign Up And Drop Knowledge 🤓 Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. Sign Up

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ファブ・ファイブ・フレディはみんなが飛ぶと言った DJスピニン「マイマイ」 フラッシュが速く、フラッシュがかっこいい フランスソワール・クエスト・パス・フラッシュ・エ・ヌー・ドゥ François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude 止まらないなら確実に撃て 駐車場に出る 車に乗って遠くまで運転できます 一晩中運転して光が見えます そして、それはすぐに来るダウ

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Fab Five Freddy said everybody would fly. DJ Spinin "My My" The flash is fast and the flash is cool François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude If you don't stop, make sure you shoot. Get out to the parking lot.

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ファブ・ファイブ・フレディはみんな飛ぶと言った DJスピニン「マイマイ」 フラッシュが速く、フラッシュがかっこいい François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude 止まらないなら撃つんだ 駐車場に出ろ

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Fab Five Freddy said everyone was going to fly. DJ Spinin "My My" The flash is fast and the flash is cool François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude If you don't stop, shoot. Get out in the parking lot.

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ファブ・ファイブ・フレディはみんな飛ぶと言った DJスピニン「マイマイ」 フラッシュが速く、フラッシュがかっこいい François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude 止まらないなら撃て 駐車場から出て行け

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Fab Five Freddy said everyone was going to fly. DJ Spinin "My My" The flash is fast and the flash is cool François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude If you don't stop, shoot. Get out of the parking lot.

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ファブ・ファイブ・フレディはみんな飛ぶと言った DJスピニン「マイマイ」 フラッシュが速く、フラッシュがかっこいい François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude 止まらないなら撃て 駐車場から出ろ

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Fab Five Freddy said everyone was going to fly. DJ Spinin "My My" The flash is fast and the flash is cool François c 'est pas, Flash is not dude If you don't stop, shoot. Get out of the parking lot.