POWERFUL!!! GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE - THE MESSAGE (REACTION) 

nothing has changed because of false prophets like sharpton, jackson and liberals. Go even further back with "in the ghetto" by elvis

took you from birth to death in 24 bars

Tru

This is the Stairway to Heaven of Rap.

@@stevenjones71 WORD

I was Born in 62 too

Serious or degenerative?.

@@Tonyoh. Both

Some consider the song from blondie rap... cant quite remember the name but I think yall know what song I mean.

@@theagetraveler Rapture is the song. People say it was the first rap song but its not true. Rappers Delight from Sugarhill Gang came out first

@@MitchJohnson0110which also wasn’t the first rap song. It was the first song to go mainstream. There were plenty of others in the 3ish yrs before.

No I think this was before "Rappers Delight" , the first recorded rap song though was "King Tim III" by Fatback Band.

@@bigb6046 No. "Rapper's Delight was first 1979. "The Message" was 1982.

@@raymondwoodard6779 Exactly right!

@@straightupwrestlingshow8058 Thanks

​@@raymondwoodard6779 Yeah Rapper's Delight was definitely years before it.

Yes I was born in the Bronx in 64, moved to Englewood in 2014, eating @ a restaurant rn in Englewood watching Mel and Shawn.

@@raineyj560 Bronx same year! Remember when rap came out. We all laughed at it! The DJ braggadocio was hilarious at the time!

I think they heard this before they’re not that young enough to at least heard it like other songs I felt they heard before

Same✌👍

@@MizJillylol yes the lyrics were funny but the message was on point. BX stand up!!!!! 😎

I was nine when it came out. And then we visited New York in 1984. My aunt had an apartment in Queens across the street from a studio where you could see break-dancers. On the first night there, someone stole the TV from the room we were sleeping in. I saw those roaches and rats, too. I was close to the edge.

Quite, 60 year old european this song spoke volumes to me at the time.

So you was a teenager when this came out. Although White radio stations didn’t play it, a lot of people played it in their cars everywhere so it’s no shock you known the song since it came out. Sad these youngsters parents didn’t play these jams for them growing up.

@@straightupwrestlingshow8058 "white radio". ? Was that the color of your radio? I remember this song getting a lot of air play!!! Regardless of where you lived!

@@Sunny-jz3dy It didn’t get mainstream radio play. White Radio and a lot of Black Radio stations didn’t play it. Rap music was shunned back then in certain parts of the country. This song was powered by the underground for the most part. WHYZ the black station in my area would only play the instrumental.

I'm a 52 year old white woman and you should see people's faces when I break out a verse from Grandmaster Flash. This was my first music purchase as a kid and I wore that cassette out in my walkman, lmao

Well, it made some of America realize you can't ignore inner city poverty, but plenty still don't care.

The greatest rap song of all time.

u just put tears in my eyes

Exactly!

True, except for the final and most controversial verse. That was all Melle Mel and he scared the hell out of the radio stations when he did.

@@barrytime-sprout8797Duke wrote the majority of the song in his Mom's basement in New Jersey. He said it seemed as if every car that went by someone would throw bottles out the windows and he could hear the glass break. Whenever he looked out, he'd always see someone relieving themselves openly in the streets. He wrote the first 4 verses and pushed it to Flash, but Melle Mel only wanted to do party raps. They finally got him to do it, so he did the first 2 verses and ended them with his classic growl and "Ah-huh-huh-huh-huh". Duke did the next 2 verses (3&4), with his more mellow voice and Melle Mel closed it out with the final verse, that he wrote himself. Duke aka Eric Fletcher played all the instruments on the track except the guitar