The first Rap song aired on national radio was done by a little 90lb blond punk rocker from Hoboken NJ.  But it wasn't the first rap single, she was just copying the Blacks and Puerto Ricans from the Bronx, that's why she had that goofy negro Fab 5 Freddie or whatever the heck his name is in her video. The first rap single was supposedly a song called Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 , Blondie's Rapture was recorded in 1980 and released in 1981. But was probably the most influential song in popularizing rap music in America. Although I still don't see how or why the concept of rhyming words over a beat is considered a uniquely black concept and considered Black music, they ripped their beats off from Kraftwerk and other White electronic musicians anyways.     Why does your avatar look like Alfred Hitchcock? :confused: And are you really a Jew? :confused: :D