Dissect DJs - Blondie - Rapture

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

We take it back to '81 when disco was dying out and rap was in it's infancy, as the two genres were brought together in an emblematic culture clash by 80's pop band Blondie- led by the unique combination of vocal and rap stylings from the group's frontwoman, Debbie Harry.Castle and JAG break down the iconic song and music video, and discuss its significant representation of the early 80's time period and the lasting impact it left on the music industry and pop culture. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The DJs that like to spit it and mix it. Throw it back and... Oh yeah, we got a deep one for you guys. Coming from 1980-something. Deep cut. 1981. 1981 with one of the original rap songs that y'all probably didn't know about. And this one comes straight for your boy, Castle,

because Castle wanted to... He's been emphasizing this for months. We've had this one marked down for at least about, I don't know, five or six months. And I figured what better time than two days? 222, which is the day that we're actually recording this. I know when you're actually going to hear it. I'll put it out quickly. It'll be all right, which is the Tuesday.

I felt like we need to actually mark the day because I realized just like five seconds ago that's like a legendary day. A big day, but I saw that a couple different social medias, which I'm trying to avoid it. Yeah, but I just re-remembered from seeing it. I wouldn't have referenced the day if it wasn't like a legendary day. And you know what? That might be a day that could have been marked by some crazy cult members or some gnarly religious folks that was like this shall be the rapture and you all feel the wrath from the beyond and it's like no it's just a tuesday we got through it me and jesson we recorded our podcast

was that some charlie kelly kelly action yeah yeah you got you got that always sunny deaf yeah we're looking up so but which can we always study it if you're not an always sunny fan you're not a fan of us I went and did it, and I got me in Castle the always sunny birds of war. Birds of War! Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Which was the first original, always sunny episode that I ever saw, and we have arms of birds and wings, and Castle's never seen it, but he's going to see it as he talks this next segment.

Are you going to go change it right now? I was sorry Anybody knows Justin knows the way he does his kind of like quick runaway Oh shit there's the costume All right So You gotta put it on quickly

You gotta put it on quick he's doing the eagle The eagle flop Yeah Should we be the chicken boys We got to get through this whole thing Because anybody that Anybody that doesn't know Always Sunny is hating all this right now

And also there's no visual why don't we turn the camera on for this? We should... I got it. We actually, for the first time ever in the history of the Dicek DJs, actually tried to bring a camera out to, like, some of them. There we go. You're talking sick.

So, this is the Birds of War from Always Sunny, and we've been meeting to dress up like this for Halloween with our boy, wine guys, for the past, I don't know, three or four years, and we're finally making it happen. And it's bad podcasting at this point just to have Justin flying around the room. The video will bring it home a little bit. But yeah, yeah. Point is, Halloween 2022, we see you.

We're already ready. We're already ready. We're going to get out. Yeah. You're going to go find Vegas or something. I'm so excited about that. You have no idea how excited. How did we even land on that?

I don't know you remember. Oh, because we was talking about how 2-22 is basically the rapture to probably some crazy people out there but really it's just a song by Blondie and we're here to dissect it today from 1981 Blondie A.k.a. Debbie

Gibson? Which by the way if she didn't have blonde hair Would be a terrible name It's a bad name. It wouldn't make sense. But she did have blonde hair We have the videos running once again Which Castle is very proud of because he knows that I don't normally watch the videos But this one's a good one This video is epic yeah Oh yeah there's some stuff you guys

have never seen it. Rapture, Blondie video, watch the whole original video. There's shit going on in the background that you'll be like, yo, what is going on here? It's Debbie Henry. I got it wrong. Debbie Gibson is another artist. Yeah, it's a different artist.

Actually, Debbie Harry, I read it around again. I have my glasses. I put it down somewhere. I saw them. I saw them. I don't see them anywhere, which is ironic because they're glasses. Because they're glasses.

Well, that's why I wouldn't be able to find them. Anyways, it is, Debbie Harry's crew, Blondie. Oh, the name of the group is called Blondie. Yeah, and check this out. It's a double entendre with the name because the song is called Rapture,

which I assume I don't really know much about the lyrics. Even as I was hearing that first part of her like, and I literally kept looking at it as we were going through it, and I was like, I don't know which part we're at. I'm not understanding a single word she said. You ready to hear it? Let's hear it. Let's figure it out.

To tell. She says to tell. Say it. I'm going to say toe to toe, dancing very close, barely breathing, almost comatose. Wall to wall, people hypnotize, and they're stepping lightly, hang each night in rapture. Okay, so right away, I do feel like the general theme of this song is about sort of like the end of time. This feels like some very intense shit. People are walled, hypnotized.

They're stepping lightly, almost comatose. but the Dublin's Honda part is that this song is considered by many to be the original rap song. Now it's not, but in general pop culture to a lot of people, it actually is. A lot of people had never heard rap in the form that we're going to get to in this song, because this song goes off in a different level where it becomes what is considered rap in the early 80s. and I guess it still could be considered today, but it's really the first time that anybody had ever heard rap, I guess, from white folk. And that to a large population, that was the first time that they realized rap was thing.

Like, we had the Sugar Hill Gang. They relieved Rappers Delight in 1979. A lot of people considered that to be the first, like, big hit rap song. And it is, I'd say, because it was a classic rap joint that existed far beyond this. but this one I think also is the first one that actually came with a music video package and it is credited as the very first rap video ever played on MTV because MTV was like brand new at this time like this is like the one of the first videos they ever played so in that sense it is sort of the birth of rap in video form

okay so there you go there's a little history lesson right out of the gate Ryan Castle covering with the facts by the way we've done our we've decided to start doing A little research. A little research. A little bit. By way, when we say a little bit, it's very little. Don't expect us to do more than a little. Now, I already had some... Google. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

You know. Now, I already had some knowledge of this song. And honestly, the little research I did all... It really just kind of like solidified what I already knew. And I was like, okay. But I feel more confident in saying it instead of being like, I remember watching VH1 bubble. Remember the rap? What were those bubble videos they used to do?

Yeah, I didn't watch this. A little bubble. I don't think you realized that I didn't watch these. Oh, man. different culture here, bro. I was outside playing fucking tag. Pop-up. I think it was pop-up video.

Yeah. And they would have little pop-up information. And I literally remember watching this on VH1's pop-up video. And that's where I learned some of the facts that I originally knew of this song. And a quick little Wikipedia search proved me to be correct for that. So give some props to pop-up video A. B, Ryan's memory and C, Wikipedia. Good old wiko.

We always just take it. By the way, has anybody ever paid? Have you ever paid? You know, they always ask for like, you got to hook us up for money or we're not going to be around very long. I've never seen Wikipedia ask me that question. What? Mostly because it's just a website, not a person. And if they're sending, if they're showing me...

Every time I ever use Wikipedia, that shit pops up like, yeah, can you send us five bucks? Oh, it might have. I just click out before I even read one of this. I don't do pop-ups. Pop-ups are an immediate X out for me. I don't know. So anyways. Next verse?

Yeah, yeah. Next verse. Back to back. Sacroliac. Sacroliac. It's actually a very hard way. I have looked that up. It is, I guess, dedicated to the sacroliac joint, which is the joint between the sacrum and the Ilium.

Bones, bones, bones, boons, boons, fucking boons. I can't read for shit. Ilium bones of the pelvis. What the fuck does she go there? Where was she going with back-to-back sacrialia? Castle, please go in this, because my ass is going to go weird with it. I'm actually going to blow in a way that Justin actually did. did research on a word beforehand because usually you don't even know how to spell realize.

I just said we're going to start doing some research. I know. I did a simple Google research. And we ended up in the same place because you didn't know what it meant at all. No idea. It's a joint in your hip. And your definition of it sucked. All right, well, that worked. All right. That's all I need then. All right. Spinless movement and a wild attack. Face to face, slightless solitude, and it's finger popping, 24-hour shopping in rapture. Yeah, what the fuck is she talking about? I don't actually, I think we're actually giving too much credit to think that she's suggesting that this is like some end-of-the-world shit, because I don't know what any of this.

This is, this is just a pair of words thrown together and sung at a level that sounds beautiful. But you can't actually understand. She sounds like whatever, dude. It sounds like it. It's good. It's good vocals. Combined with the rap that she's about to throw out and the way this song, it sounds like whatever. is straight split in half between this song is basically two songs combined in one and it's

kind of amazing the way the beat carries it wait let me make this point this is important the beat doesn't change but it kind of shows how you could have the same background beat and it could be two different songs because the whole first half is just kind of like you know chorus of her like letting her vocals just flow and you don't even know what she's saying and you're like I don't even really care because it sounds beautiful and she keeps talking about the rap And that's how you really get. And as we're about to see, it's about to turn on a dime. I agree.

But can we agree that like an Aretha or like a Christina Aguilera or like a Whitney Houston would have brought some like drabtshire? You know, like some deep like. some soul to this. The song needs some soul and I don't like it and it doesn't have enough of it and that's my one complaint with this song and they're about to get hip hop with it and even the hip hop song that she's about to get into is not

soulful enough for me and that's why I don't like the song. So you're saying you would rather her add about a lot of five seconds of staccato until the beach notes. You know? All right, this is where you bet on the over for the anthem

when you know you got a singer that's going to do that, and they bust out the finger notes, and they do that like, uh, I need some of that, dude, because that's what the song is missing. But I don't think it's missing that.

I think that Whitney or one of them would have taken that a different direction and probably made a better song because they're just a better singer. So that's, yeah, that makes sense. So why?

All right, well, every song can't be done by the best singers of all time. So what you get is you get this version of it, and you're like, all, well, what else about the song?

Maybe I enjoy. Maybe I enjoy that background beat. Maybe I enjoy that little bell. every like 16th note. Maybe I enjoy the little white girl flow she's about to get into, which I feel like we've done too much talking. We should like just let her get into that already,

so feed me some of that. Oh, you want to hear some more of the rap? I want to hear some white girl flow. Who's runs, what's a ball, flush and a dude, and you don't stop, shoe shot. Comes right down and lands on the ground and you dig and eat your head.

Tomorrow's you go out at night, you can cause you eat cattle lasts, Lincoln's two Mercury's and Subaru And don't stop You keep on And there's no more hard You go out at night

And eat up for the people meet Face to face and dance to cheat One to one Man to Man to Man There's Hold up It's just because If you're watching the video of this

A random YMCA Fantastic Indian What pops out of the The bushes here And does a dance that I I love, and I just love Indians. I love the Cleveland Indians. I miss the Indians.

I'll forever miss the Indians. And whatever team they become now, I am no longer a fan of that Cleveland team. No, fuck that. I am a Cleveland Indian fan for life. You're a Cleveland baseball fan with me, and you're going to remain such. You're going to still do your Indian dance. They don't have Indians anyways. No, I got cussed out last time.

He did. He did. People have gotten much more aggressive over the years, because I've done it for a long time. Well, it's in Anaheim. Anaheim fans are usually, like, pretty soft, and you could do whatever you want for them. And Justin, like, takes off his outfit. Every time he needs to his home run, he gets out. He strips out of his Pocahontas gear and dances his rain dance the rest of the game.

And usually they don't say shit. But this past year, yeah. Oh, yeah, those are a couple. He was getting heckled. My favorite, no, hey, my favorite was I literally remember somebody from, like, the next section over just being like, Hey, I'm offended. Which, I don't know, for some reason That was really fun of me

That somebody just shouted I'm offended Not even that's offensive He was definitely joking He was a white guy Yeah, I think he was definitely joking So anyways we got I think more people enjoyed it

Than they didn't And you know what That's the course of comedy That's what comedy is Got people talking Got people pulling out their phones And being like I definitely am on a bunch of videos

Yeah Justin ended up on a gang load of Instagram stories that night that we don't even know, you know. And they were probably with a caption, I was like, look at this fucking idiot. I guarantee there's a bunch of them like from action. Anyway, dude.

They'll always remember that. People that were like, yo, how fuck him up if I saw that shit? Are you kidding? Cleveland Anaheim game. He's making fun of shit? I want to went up to him and fucking slap the shit up.

And I would have been like, yeah, let's go. Then you want to fucking see me? Guaranteed it would be really worse if you came up to me, try to slap me. And then you got your ass beat by fucking Pocahontas. Like, you wouldn't,

You wouldn't want to get your ass with my Pocahontas with the fucking wet feather coming out. I'm just like, go that, go that, you know. So anyways, side story to all that. Continuing on. We should retire your Pocahontas outfit next year. It's done. No, it was retired. Yeah.

With the Indians retiring. You're still going to come to Cleveland games with me in Anheim. Oh, fuck that. And we're going to. Anyway, going back to that, that's why we stopped the song. But so far in this, there's going to. We're actually, like, sidetracking off the story because we just watch this whole video and listen to this whole rap and, like, I don't know what the fuck she's talking about it all.

Throughout the whole song. The whole song, just... The video is worth talking about, though, because we got Blondie. It's all like one shot. And the first part of the song, when she's doing her little songstress thing, she's kind of like in a disco,

which was still very much in the vibe when this was made. And the song was released early 81, so I would imagine this was either 80 or 79. And then, as soon as the rap starts, she meets this dude in, like, the DJ. And there's this dude in, like, White hat. Top white hat.

He hasn't even started yet. Yeah, and he's just standing there posted up. And she just gives him a nod like, okay, I'm ready to bring y'all people in on this one. And then she just launches into a rap. Fab Five, Freddy told me everybody's fly. DJ spinning. I said, my, ma, my, flash is fast. Flash is cool.

Francescée Pazche et no do. She makes it sound better than I do. I don't know French. Yeah, we've got to continue. Francois et Paz. No, no, dude. No, dude. Flash ain't no dude.

And you don't stop, show a shot, go out to the parking lot. And you get in your car and you drive real far and you drive all night and then you see a light. At any point, should we break down what any of this means? No, because it doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't. There's nothing you can get into. I would like to get into the fact that soon she gets into Cadillacs, Lincoln's, Mercury's, and Subaru's, of which I have a Mitsubishi that gets me, 40 miles of the car that literally broke down on you yesterday?

No, no, no, my truck. That's my Ford, so fuck Ford's. But my Mitsubishi, 40 miles of a gallon. So my Mitchibishi gets better miles than all four of these cars. Which is the reason that we're now recording. Once again in the Fontana studio, because Justin was trying to make it out to the Castle Dungeon. I had three cars six months ago.

Now he's got one. And it's the one that you've always talked up, though, about its gas mileage. Gas mileage, right? It's 40 miles a gallon, bro. I'll go up to any Lamborghini and be like, fuck you, bro. I got you beat. Got you beat. Yeah, okay.

Well, I wanted to get to, okay, so you wanted to point out she brings out. Cedlock, Lincoln, Mercury. She talks about one-on-one, man-to-man. She, no, no, no, before you just start writing through words, she literally lists like four or five cars in a row and just makes them rhyme and shit. But the main part of this rhyme is right at the top. And that is where I know a little bit of background about the story. Because she calls out Fab Five Freddy,

and she calls out Grandmaster Flash. When she says Flash is fast, Flash is cool. So Grandmaster Flash, I saw in a documentary that is an amazing documentary called the Hip Hop Evolution, or it's the Evolution to Hip Hop, one of the two, I don't know. And he talks about how in 1978 he was DJing, and this is when, you know, DJing at that level was very brand new. And he said this little blonde girl was watching him, came up to him and said, I've been watching the last hour and I'm blown away and I'm going to make a song about you. Boom, two years later, she puts this song out, which was completely inspired by the early hip-hop

DJ workings of Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash. So that inspired this entire song, which then in turn created a culture for rap that was digestible for a large percent of the population that I don't think would have otherwise been ready digest it if it just came as it was from fad five freddie and grandmaster flash had the sugar hell gang and all the early like you know pioneers of rap but then it gets presented themselves in the form of this cute little blonde girl who comes starts the song as a songtrist and then kind of like eases into the rap in a very easy to take if you're like super white culture at this time right.

Dude, I'm gonna learn this song for karaoke. I've been telling you to learn this song for years. Have you? Yeah. All right, I'm gonna learn this one. I've been telling people to, at least. I don't know. The first part's gonna be a bit trip for me to get.

That's the thing. To be able to dance between two of them, you almost need to find a girl that, yeah, you almost need to find a girl who can, like, do the, like, vocals for you and then, like, you take over there. Fuck that. I'll get the cold. You dare doubt me in my fucking vocals. Give me additional reverb.

I'll figure that shit out. Well, you're the DJ that would do the reverb, so I'll let you do that. So far, just going through the, I'm listening to lyrics and it's going through it, and it's just a bunch of rap. So what you're saying, the way you're presenting this entire song, I want to give you credit for it because you're giving it structure, you're giving it a substance, you're giving it's education, and I appreciate it because the only thing I keep thinking about

is the fact that my car is still better than better by gas files. She's done a rap about Cadillacs, Lincoln's 2, Mercury's, and Subaru. So that's the funny thing is watching her in this video, so she starts just like taking a jaunt around this like built up shoot with graffiti in the background. And it just starts giving you all this imagery of like this is like what we think hip hop is. Oh, there's people doing graffiti. There's this dude in like a bright white suit and this crazy top hat and he just starts doing his dance. And then there's like a DJ in the background. And you could tell she's like, I am getting this.

I am swagging around. And when you watch her, it's like home girl ain't got no swag. comes from a different generation however i definitely give her props for the effort she did put together a little jam here and she kind of put wrap on the map for a whole generation of people that weren't really ready for or aware of it in a bite-sized cookie that they were ready to actually take a bite out of and i think it took some very small yet at the same time gigantic steps for the general mass industry the general mass what it's the word of looking for population

of people life forms population was getting over rhinos the general mass population to be ready to actually take in rap in a form that was easy

for them to take so for that I get it and you know what as much as like she doesn't walk or like kind of move or dance with like real swag or anything because you understand it and take it for what it is it's like it's cute it's adorable like she's like trying real hard and like because

she's the first one to try this like I respect it and you know what it's a little sexy yeah get it yeah get it blah yeah I was thinking about it man I imagine myself putting myself into into my end 1981 and like first hearing this song like you're at the club you're like what the fuck is this but you kind of groove into it because it's got a good beat you got that plunk beat behind it and then you used to start

pop bat da da bab like I can just see myself pop and lock it and like babble and somebody somebody like, and everybody's cool, and that's past. And then you just keep stopping and moving, especially if you know the drops of the beat.

It's a good song. Like, this song would have been one of my favorites at the club. Like, hold up. Yeah. Hold up. Is that rapture? Oh, here we go.

Start off smooth, and then you just start breaking dancing. And you know what's coming and you're like, yeah, and you would have learned all the words. But let me just say this. Yeah.

In order for either of us to do this for karaoke, we got to figure out that French line. I'll just, I'll just slurflash. I'll just slur fly past that. You just got to hear her say it. let's go back to the very beginning it's the very beginning of a rhyme

I just want to hear her say it again find it alright here we go and play yeah francis surpass flaschetna do and gun stuff

chusha chasse pass flasheed nadu something like that it's super quick so yeah it's one of those ones that you can't really read

from like lyrics I think I pretty good yeah it's kind of a very Justin always wants to credit what he does You did. You threw right back where I was looking for, yeah.

You DJ should be able to do that. Yeah, but I just, I got lucky. Yeah. So, yeah, that's it. And you don't stop to show a shot. Go out to the parking lot. She's literally just like looking at regular ass daily shit she's doing and be like, how can I turn this into a rap?

Oh, I walk to the parking lot. And I get in my car, I drive real far, I drive all night, and you see a light. And she's literally just like at that point I think, just taking notes of whatever the fuck she's coming across in her day. And it comes down and lands on the ground. And out comes a man from Mars. Okay, that probably didn't actually happen. But, you know, that's when she started, like,

I think it was one of those things like I used to do in an out-a-red comedy. You start pulling, tugging on a string, and you're like, where is this going to go? And then eventually it finds you to a man from Mars. And you try to run. And he's got a gun. No, no, no. He tried to run, and he's got a gun. And he shoots you dead, and he eats your head.

and you're in the man from Mars. You go out at night, eating cars. You eat Cadillacs, Lincoln's 2, Mercury's, and Subaru, and you don't stop, you keep eating cars. Okay, she's really into this whole, like, she turned a corner. She's all about eating cars.

I honestly don't understand how she got away with getting such a shitty rap as her main rap. Because it was the first time anybody did it. Yeah, but somebody should have been like, yo, what the fuck did you just say, though? Like, you didn't say anything. So if this song came, out now. It'd be kind of

more on the genre of like that. Remember that Friday song? That girl came out and like the Friday song was like so bad, it was such a bad rap and stuff that it almost got like famous for how bad it got. It would be like a Billy Irish song, dude. But it was weirdly catchy. That's kind of what I feel like this would be. But because it lives in this era and she was the first one

to do it, it works. And I honestly respect her for. And like I like kind of like how weird the rap is and how it doesn't make any sense. And she's clearly just insane. I wanted some kind of Dang the first. Blondie's not a rapper. We all know this, okay? All right. Well, let's listen to the rest of this, brother.

And let it go. Man to man that's to toe to, don't need to slow, because the man for Mars is fluid cars. He's eating bars. Yeah, walk and roll. And don't stop. Do you have your part TVs on? Where he won't have a house with a huge race.

And you hip-hop. And don't stop. Just blast off. Short shot. Because the man for Mars, stop eating cars. The man from ours is still getting it. Close another video in his white top hat and silky white suit. Extra smooth moves.

I actually have a little background on that guy if you're ready for it. Go ahead, hit it. So. Real quick. We told you he did some research. Y'all better appreciate it. You both fucking better appreciate it. Yeah, I don't know about these Wikipedia fingers.

So you better realize what we do with these fingers. Go ahead. All right. Let's not brag about it too much. Little level research Okay So in case you've never seen this video There's this man in a white suit

That's got like a sort of What's his name? Top hat He's got a top hat But who's always just rocked out With a giant ass clock I don't know why I'm bling on his name It's a flavor

There you go I thought it was the guy that was like A lot of people have done it The frog The WB frog Yeah him too Yeah So he kind of looks like it

But he's got more Dumber They pulled it off? Yeah. It's kind of the way. I feel like they model themselves under this guy, except for his suit is white. But I really feel like Flav O'Flave modeled his look after this guy because this guy was obviously like 10 years before Flav really came out.

And he's kind of got a similar look. I think he's got like the same kind of glasses at him. He's got a bow tie. Anyways, that man, as he's known in the video, as Man from Mars or Voodoo God, is dancer William Barnes. And he's the introductory and central part of this entire thing. He choreographed this entire.

video. So that's why he's like all over it. And like they literally leave a whole part. There's like a 12 second part there where he literally just starts jumping back and forth. He choreographed that weak-ass dance? Yeah, he choreographed that, which is why that was allowed. Because if this was done by somebody else, they would have been like, wait, we need to jump away from that for a second. But he was like, nope, it's going to be me jumping back and forth. And really, that was very similar to the fraud from WB's thing. So maybe he was a little model after him. I think he was part of them. Yeah. So the whole video is basically. How does he look back at himself and be like, yep, you see what I did there?

Fucking crush that shit. Honestly, guys, look at the video. It's not a hard dance. It's a fun watch. I got to say it does. It's a fun watch, but the fact that he got paid to choreograph some shit that somebody could be like, I'm just going to hop like this, and then I'm going to double-time it, and then people are going to like it. Like, you weak-ass choreographer, you suck.

Who fuck is this guy? What was his name? No, fuck is that. I'm going to, I'm going to fucking tell you. He was known as Voodoo God, but his real name. His real name is William Barnes And his role in the video is William Barnes, man from Mars

Fuck the man from Mars, man from Mars, man. It isn't even like... It was shut in the East Village of Manhattan. We got to ask Corey. We got to choreograph. So it was funny. I could have killed that shit. They shot this in East Village Manhattan,

but it's clearly meant to kind of look more like Brooklyn or the Bronx or something. But Blondie's not going out there. So like, you create a set in Manhattan. We'll do it there. So I got to say, though, after listening to it back, the fun thing I think about this song and the video is it's such a time period piece

that's that clash of styles coming together, and it's very evident upon looking at it. You got this kind of very white culture and this songstri style. You got the end of disco happening. Yes, very disco vibes at the beginning of the video. You can feel the end of it. You can feel a disco is just like falling asleep at the end of it. You could actually say that this music video is that transition.

from disco to hip hop because the beginning of the video is her dancing with a bunch of disco people and they're all dressed in disco gear and then as it gets to the rat part she moves to the street where there's graffiti and now there's black people now there's some black people at the beginning of it but then she gets to the hip hop part and we got voodoo god and we got the DJ Fab Five Freddy makes a rephrase that though you can't say it like that with this PC world you can't say that you're not I mean I think that's kind of what it is in the song though. She's literally, she's, I don't think it.

I just, I don't know offended by it, but somebody's like, yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why I fucking hate this world. Here's what. Here's what. Because, like legitimately there wasn't any. There wasn't. And the thing is, she's clearly attempting to integrate cultures here, right? And I think she's doing it.

That's the thing, is what I'm saying. It's like, you could see it happening that this disco world is trying to connect to the hip-cop crowd that is brand new at this point. It's a very new genre of music. They're still getting their footing. It's very set in New York. It's literally the groundwork is still being laid for it. And she extends a hand, a very well-known public hand, and says, though, this is a culture that we need to recognize and bring into our forefront. And she does it by doing like a very basic white girl rap, but it's catchy. The song lives on. And it itself is a classic blend of both this and hip hop and obviously it doesn't sound what rap would end up becoming but again i give her credit

because she laid brickstones towards making it happen and it really was probably the first time a lot of people in main pop culture heard what rap was about albeit from a songishishish white girl i know but i mean now people were aware of what the coolest thing about this is the What rap was? The beat of this song, that funky, thin, la, that guitar in the back and all that. And that is also a song that has been sampled a bunch of times. That whole like breaktime, I was like, bam.

Digga, niggna, niggas, diga, diga, diga, diga, diga. I've heard that a lot. It's been reused in so many different hip-hop songs have brought that back. So, I mean, this song lives on. There's a lot of things you could work on with it. Since she started a group called Blondie, could I do a group called, like, baldies? No. Because there's like a bunch of bald guys.

like baldies. I was almost certain you were going to go Puerto Rican with that and I was... I went baldies. I just went hair style. Yeah.

So she's blonde. I don't know. Maybe. Baldies? Like a bunch of bald guys. That actually has probably better legs than your

whatever you were going to say otherwise. But I said what I was going to say what I was going to say. I know. Say what I said. I don't know. It's just because

you're usually ready to throw. Yo, Puerto Rican, Borigua, yeah. And I was just... I have since... I think you're remembering young.

Anyway. You do? I think we're at the point where we need to slap. Are we ready to slap and snap this out? Slap and snap. You started. You wanted this song. I need to know how you truly feel about it.

All right. Is that part of it? Yes. A little like warm up. Like an extra rub? Like a, like a sensei karate kid. Oh shit. Okay.

If you guys can't hear this, she's doing the Mars dance. Mars Man Dance. And notice I did way too many of them too. Yeah, well, he did. He did, he did. Because that guy did it like 13. He did way to 18. Yeah, he did.

So I did like eight for him. But it was three slaps, two snaps, and then like 13 jumps back and forth. Bullshit. You said the first part was a part of it. Oh, yeah, and then the little warm-up rub. Because... I thought the warm-up rub is you're adding a lot

with the warm-up rope. Like, you're getting... You know what? This song is impactful, and I'm just trying to give it proper props for that. And it's one of those songs that I don't over. over here, really?

But it lives on, like, I remember hearing it as a kid. I remember when I heard it at certain times. But, like, it doesn't get played that often in, like, modern pop culture. So, like, I'm kind of okay with it. And it's got one of those raps that is, like, it's, like, it's almost, like, so racked, though. It's, like, fun. It's, like, fun. Like, anybody could do it.

Like. So bad it's good. Yeah. Like, fuck that. And you're, like, what is, and your widest friend will, like, wrap it, and they might ruin it a little bit for you. But, like, they'll have fun with it. So it's, like, very universally fun. My family would hate this.

And just watching her, like, rhyme it around this little, like, one-shot, very super 80s low-budget video. There's things about it that are fun. I don't know. I enjoy it. Got me crazy. There's things about this video. I enjoy. You got the song, the whole combination of everything that it does for pop culture and the history of rap and disco.

I like it. All right. Let me tell you that I had initially a better... Don't take it down based on my rating. No, no. Not on your rating. It's more of my own feeling on this song as we've listened to it and seen a couple things. One, how bad the rap was.

Two, how bad the choreography dance was, of which he was specified in the Google that he was like a specified dancer who choreographed the entire video and then came up with that dance. This song would have gotten a higher ranking, but now it's going to get itself a... Is it? Is it still going? Is it really? See that? He just did a dumb and dumber top hat. Jim Carrey.

Or he finally fixed the perfect outfit. Yes. Dance. I was hoping. Not sure why. I was hoping that I could pull at least another slap out of you with that dance. No, man. It's just.

I stood up and did the whole dance. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The beat of the song is dope. I'm going to learn it for karaoke. That gives it more credibility.

But you know what? you know what? Fuck the choreography. It sucked. The rap could have been 10 times better. You know, this song just could have been, for it coming out, your first time coming out and doing something like this,

you guys could have put way more effort and like really tried. You could have tried, Blondie. You could have tried. Dude, she made, like, fuck that shit. She did like 32 bars on men from Mars eating cars. Exactly.

Come up with some substance. You're right. That doesn't actually support. my argument at all. Yes, thank you. She just really stuck on that whole man from Mars. Some bullshit that she just lost herself and nobody ever heard it, too, like, oh, that was cool. No, it sucked. Okay, your rap sucked.

Nikki Minaj and Cardi B would have killed that shit. They would have wiped your ass. Actually, you know what? I've been looking at the end of it and I was like, we didn't even go through the last few of your lyrics, but I started looking at him and it's like, nothing. Take a tour through the sewer. Don't

strain your brain. Paint a train. You'll be singing. In the rain said don't stop. No, it's the worst. It's just shit rap, dude. It's honestly. It's pretty bad, yeah. Getting credit for it breaking from disco to rap and giving her that.

I'll give her that bridge. So she gets two claps, two snaps. Well, other than that, you guys could have done way better. Hey, Blondie. Thank you for, thank me for getting Justin and give you another slap with my Jim Carrey. You're welcome. I was. I wasn't in the mood to do that, but, you know what?

I did it for you. I don't want you to leave this episode on such a whatever man. I just, I can't believe this guy was specified in your fucking googled. And he did some Mahabah. Watch the video people. That shit's disappointing. I would have done some other Puerto Rican salsa.

If you want to put it in a, what? But given that this is a very broke-ass early 1980s video and the one of the very first. They got it? They were break dancing there. Would you rather? They were doing some. They were doing, Michael Jackson was. Do moonwalk in by this point?

Entertainment-wise, what would be funnier if he did like a pretty decent little dance number or if he just bounced back and forth like fucking Kermmer the Frog for... Fucking dope dancing. If he would have broken down a 32-count... I will take the comedic dancing back and forth. And I'm going to make a video of that so that we can all watch it back. Because that was like my favorite thing in the video. That was my fucking worst thing.

So that's why you got the... D dissect DJs coming at you once again. Well... Hope you enjoy. I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree. That, my friend, is how raptures are caused. Fuck you. Ness!

Fuck you, he said.