An original essay submitted at the editor's request.--Ed.
Guitarist Robert Fripp and Deborah Harry
Source: Deborah
Harry Index of Galleries
In the early 80s, I remember listening to R&B radio mostly. And a song called "Rapture" had come on. And it was a girl rapping...
Actually, she was purring in comparison to the female
rappers—Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim—today. But at that time,
female rappers, albeit a sugarcoated one, were unheard of. But that voice
would introduce the first blue-eyed rap song, giving way to the likes of
the Beastie Boys, Anthrax and others...