It was released as a single by Sugar Hill Records on Jand was later featured on the group's first studio album, The Message.Various combinations of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five placed 10 records in the charts during a three-year span from 1980 to 1983. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five initially built their reputation performing at parties and live shows in the mid-1970s and achieved local success." The Message" is a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Band member Cowboy was the first to use the word. Grandmaster Flash was a skillful DJ and turntable expert, who introduced the backspin technique, punch phrasing and perfected scratching. They introduced many innovations that are still a cornerstone of the genre today. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are one of the pioneers of Hip-Hop.
This song was featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Template:Unreliable source?The rhythm track was sampled in various hip-hop songs, including the remix for the 1993 song " Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube and the 1997 song " Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy. Melle Mel said in an interview with NPR: "Our group, like Flash and the Furious Five, we didn't actually want to do "The Message" because we was used to doing party raps and boasting how good we are and all that." The song was written and performed by Sugar Hill session musician Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher and Furious Five MC Melle Mel. Somebody, somebody if you wanna party say party (Party), say party (Party) Cmon Ah.Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my carThe chorus includes the repeated refrain "It's like a jungle sometimes / It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.""The Message" took rap music from the house parties of its origin, to the social platforms later developed by groups like Public Enemy, N.W.A, and Rage Against the Machine. Featuring alternating lead vocals by Melle Mel and Ed " Duke Bootee" Fletcher, the song's lyrics describe the stress of inner city poverty:Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Freedom (Live Version) Lyrics.
Template:Cn Padgham said that "At the time The Message was one of my favorite records". Canadian band Crystal Castles sampled parts of this song for their track titled "Magic Spells".Genesis drummer and lead singer Phil Collins, along with Grammy Award winning producer Hugh Padgham, described in the 2001 release The Genesis Songbook how "The Message" helped shape the hook of the band's 1983 hit single " Mama". American singer-songwriter Willy Mason also covered this song for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on February 25, 2005.
Thus, shifting the focus from the mixing and scratching of the grandmaster as the star, to the thoughts and lyrics of the emcee playing the star role. Critical reception In addition to being widely regarded as an all-time rap anthem, "The Message" has been credited by many critics as the song that catapulted emcees from the background to the forefront of hip hop. Not only does the song utilize an ingenious mix of musical genres to great effect, but it also allows the slow and pulsating beat to take a backseat to the stark and haunting lyrical content. Music critic Dan Carins described it in a 2008 edition of The Sunday Times: "Where it was inarguably innovative, was in slowing the beat right down, and opening up space in the instrumentation—the music isn't so much hip-hop as noirish, nightmarish slow- funk, stifling and claustrophobic, with electro, dub and disco also jostling for room in the genre mix—and thereby letting the lyrics speak loud and clear". The song has been used in adverts for clothing company Lacoste."The Message" has been reused and re-sampled in so many different ways that it would be easy to reduce its legacy to cliché.
(2005) Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. "The Message" – 1997, Deepbeats Records (DEEPCD001) "The Message '95" ( Die Fantastischen Vier Remix) (1995, East West Records) Chart positions Chart (1982–83) It confirmed that emcees, or rappers, had vaulted past the deejays as the stars of the music".
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