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[@adrianbenson28]

Melle Mel's final verse is amongst the greatest ever written.

[@closedfiles]

He wrote that when he was about 16 years old

[@adrianbenson28]

@@closedfiles You mature quickly when you grow up in the Ghetto living second rate.

[@7Eightyone]

@@closedfiles fact. It was on a song they released 3 years earlier.

[@musutdmustapha7540]

agreed

[@frednelson3054]

Word!

[@andrewh.8118]

This will always be a classic. Hits harder than whatever these new rappers be talking about. I can’t get into the new,but you can tell who grandmaster has influenced esp in the 90s

[@BayAreaSon]

100%!!!!!!!!

[@nurlowe6564]

ALL THE FACTS.

[@ksager123]

And plus this beat is way better than the new copy n paste beats

[@BayAreaSon]

Hahaha,copy and paste beats .🤣🤣🤣

[@isabelsilva62023]

How did we go from this to the emptiness in the lyrics/attitude now?

[@Reagan98]

This is considered the first conscious rap song. Most rap song wasn't talking about heavy subject matters like this. Grandmaster Flash had another song called White Lines, they are talking about cocaine and crack.

[@michaelway7936]

Also New York, New York(big city of dreams-1983)

[@r.cjones1515]

BEATSTREET BREAKDOWN!!!

[@jeffhughes7964]

Actually Rapture is considered rap way before this.

[@spruce381]

Gil Scott Heron might have been an influence too?

[@lindapowers8592]

The birth of Hip Hop! The birth of rap! The original OG’s. The truth💪🏽 We had never heard anything like this before and we loved it!My husband was a local party/event DJ in Detroit in the 70’s-80’s and he played so much at home 🏡😂

[@merciless41582]

People don't realize how influential, important, and legendary this song is. It was without a doubt, the most important hip hop song of all time. Way ahead of its time. The first conscious hip hop song,These guys are telling you a dark story of how New York City was back in those days. We seen a lot of it in Taxi Driver (1976), but when the 80's came the crack epidemic hit. A lot of the legendary rappers/rap pioneers like Too Short, Nas, Rakim, Ice Cube, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, amongst others have credited this song as the song that influenced them to rap.

[@discus1713]

I love that you're going Way Way back to the beginning of hip Hop and one of the first songs that had some serious meaning behind it

[@bigb2494]

This song introduced consciousness to rap and painted a picture for the world of the struggle. You should check out BDP and "My Philosophy" or "You Must Learn" or Public Enemy and "Fight The Power", "Can't Truss It" or "Black Steal in The Hour of Chaos"

[@anthonyzarate9807]

YES!!!!!!! I grew up listening to all of them and KRS1 and Chuck D are 2 of the most underrated rappers EVER!!! Not only could they flow but their song writing was legendary!!! P.S. PE and "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" is a must!!!

[@G-TV_TheOneManArmy]

Don't forget we're all in the same gang west coast edition which talks about the negative sides of gang banging by the hottest rappers of the time from the west coast in the late 80s early 90s

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

This IS the greatest hiphop song of all time And I'll argue that with anyone. It may not be the best, but it is the GREATEST. 100 standa the test of time, both lyrically, thematically, and as a song its still listenable. I've been trying to figure for years how they fit like 8 people in the squad car

[@hughfuller8416]

I agree. This is the greatest song ever made, to me.

[@DevildogDragoons]

When I was Really in love with hip hop.was like a big brother turning you on to the evils of that street life..warning you of what could be what can be..if you move a certain way...Message .that and the Message ll was a Blessing in my life..can say put me up on game as a youth when I was too green to know wtf! Was up..Raw and real🙏

[@DevildogDragoons]

And just got to say.Divine sounds "What people do for money "hits like that also.

[@johnr4550]

@@hughfuller8416 and Sucker MC’s

[@kellychristensen4219]

First time i heard this was back in the early, early 80's at Club LTD. This shit was FIRE back then & to me still is. Nothing beats the oldies. Much Love from G-Town NY

[@a-dub]

You're right. A lot happened during that time period that wasn't known except to those in the neighborhood because no cell phones and cell phones WITH cameras weren't invented until 2002. We needed songs like this to tell the stories of the streets. Thanks for this video.

[@MrUndersolo]

I was nine when it came out. And then we visited NY two years later. Every line of this is brilliant and one of the greatest vocal performances in all of music (Melle Mel was a boss)!

[@socialmediadelinquent5781]

You need check out Grandmaster Flash’s anti-drug song White Lines, another awesome tune.

[@AgunziLFC]

*Grandmaster Melle Mel

[@kristijanEX]

Rapper's Delight, The Message, Funky Worm and Rock Box, the 4 cornerstones of hip hop.

[@Knick_Fury]

Classic 1st generation Hip-Hop…here are some other “message” type songs from this era you should check: GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE - NEW YORK NEW YORK GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE - WHITE LINES TREACHEROUS THREE - YES WE CAN-CAN FEARLESS FOUR - PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD (TODAY) KURTIS BLOW - THE BREAKS FUNKY FOUR + 1 MORE - KING HEROIN

[@zigman63]

That was just what we needed when it came out, now I feel like watching the first series of Hill Street Blues. Amazing.

[@roblake3350]

In ‘82 I was 11…. But I didn’t hear this until a few years later - probably ‘84 And listening to stuff like this and Africa Bambaata as I rode around on my BMX. hip hop was all brand new to us back then in the UK 🇬🇧 - great days 👍 I still know the whole rap start to finish 😀

[@trishriley9681]

I loved them since they started and I'm still listening at age 56🙌 More please! ♥️😘😘

[@RK-um9tu]

This song was so groundbreaking, Rolling Stone Magazine voted it Song of the Year for 1982...

[@LeoTheLion1679]

I stumbled upon this song when I was 9 years old and I memorized the lyrics without really understanding what they meant. As an adult, I have listened to this song more times than any other song in my life, and it will forever be cemented as my #1 song of all time. Especially when you learn about the history behind the song. Epic!

[@phillipligon5356]

One of my top 10 favorite rap songs. The overall song was great but the last verse really got me.

[@aaronwarrior3568]

White Lines is a nice song and message too

[@antoinettelopes]

When people talk about the first big rap song I think of this or "Rapper's Delight".

[@modifiedcontent]

Both were masterminded by Sylvia Robinson.

[@antoinettelopes]

@@modifiedcontent That's cool. I didn't know about her.

[@armandoperez8230]

I was a kid growing up here in the southside jamming to this music when it all began for hip hop music ,my generation

[@cocopuff7038]

This Song is in the TOP 5 of Legendary Hip Hop Songs I ever heard. Great reaction if you 2 like that you will probably like something uplifting around that time, might want to check out Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force "Renegades Of Funk"

[@dragonriders729]

I believe the music & beat was written by Duke Bootee. We just lost him in '21. Rest Peacefully.

[@joehynes5452]

Cube has the most popular sample with his track Check Yo Self

[@sandragray4598]

White Lines is another great song of theirs, in case no one else has mentioned it yet. It hit pretty big as I recall and it has a great sound.

[@jeknechtphotography7106]

Puff Daddy sampled this song (almost a cover) for his song Cant Nobody Hold Me Down Ice Cube also sampled the beat for Check Yo Self. This song is a staple in conscious rap

[@artdogg50]

The first rap song that ever really hit and moved me. Changed the game in my opinion.

[@jacqueline4514]

Oh yes, I’m 13 again in Brooklyn, hanging out with my friends playing this on the boom box. BEST times of my life ❤️❤️❤️. To this day, when my husband pisses me off I say “Don’t Push Me ‘cause I’m Close To The Edge” 😂😂😂

[@goatslunch6991]

About furkin time some one got a hear of this.

[@harveygarrett4129]

Glad y'all featured this song.. That last verse was Fire 🔥🔥

[@askellarankin5217]

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines shud do that one next bro just as wicked

[@gmac9987]

One of the hardest and realest rap songs ever and they were pioneers in the game!!

[@modifiedcontent]

The models for this beat were More Bounce To The Ounce and Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - and Dennis Chambers played live drums on this. Before this rap records had disco or funk backing tracks.

[@tokyo333]

That last verse gives me chills to this day, even 40 years after I first heard it...

[@loudiamonds6587]

This song transformed hip hop.....subject matter was a must

[@animeman84]

Ice Cube samples it in the 93 remix of Check Yo Self,Puff Daddy samples it in Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down in 1997,Sinbad samples it in his 1990 comedy album Brain Damaged,Blank Banshee samples it in Teen Pregnancy in 2011.A line was sampled in Movement in Still Life by BT and was featured in GTA:Vice City,Scarface:The World is Yours and Everybody Hates Chris.Wikipedia has much more information about it if you want to check it out

[@OneThousandHomoDJs]

Man, back in the day we used to listen to this song EVERY DAY. This, and "White Lines" and "Din Dada." The only breakdancing move I could ever do was that centipede one, or the worm, or whatever. Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) did a parody of this song in his comic strip, Life In Hell. The only line I remember was "it makes me wonder how I keep myself so slender."

[@neonvandal8770]

That group came out of the South Bronx slums of the 1970s, and that place back then was NO JOKE. Literally like a bombed out hell on earth in some areas. "The Message" was the point where the original school rap music had a look around, grew up, and told the world exactly what's what. It will be forever the benchmark what other conscious Hip Hop will be measured against.🎧

[@p-body9353]

Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 ...we love this Song here back in the day... good reaction

[@H-sgracesavedme1711]

Brah growing up in the 80’s had to be so cool! So much eclectic awesome music.

[@DannyD714]

this video is over 40 years old,and shows that the more things change,the more they stay the same. it's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken.

[@Boatzilla2]

Probably the first rap song I ever heard.....well, that probably goes for a lot of people.

[@devmiles]

Melle Mel the GOAT, this is not just the greatest rap record but a prophecy, the message!

[@jbogle531]

Most folks now a days mostly know the hook and beat from the redo by P. Diddy and Mase track - Can't Nobody Hold me Down. It was a monster hit in 1997.

[@Kimmielove70]

OMGGG my friend from kindergarten clear up until he passed away a few years ago mike He was a white guy but he knew how to break dance. Very very good actually and skate. We were real good skaters I couldn't break dance though lol.🤣🤣 we rode the same bus to middle school the seventh and eighth grade year and our bus driver Peggie she had these kick ass speakers in the back of the bus this big ass yellow bus but we jammed I mean it was Grandmaster Flash and the furious five, midnight star, too short,, Sugarhill gang, and Peggie would be bumping. This is brought back so many memories. Wow, thank you rest easy Mike you're missed.💜

[@joelpayne1193]

I like this song because it was important messages from Grandmaster Flash and his gang were responsible for bringing hip hop music to the world. 😊

[@00wrongun]

White Lines, Vice, Freedom, It's Nasty (Genius of Love), Scorpio, Message II (Survival) & New York New York are worth checking out too 🏅

[@chada7094]

Speaking facts. Sad People still living like this. Ice Cube -Check yo self before you wreck yo self

[@sassa5818]

This is the the origin of modern rap music.. The sugarhill gang's rapper's delight was a couple of years earlier.. It didn't have the same impact! But it is rightly credited as the first REAL rap song!

[@lisarogers3288]

We would roller skate to this in the 80's we loved it ! We also liked Scorpio too.

[@paulb4604]

Growing up in New York in the '80s, this was one of the very first rap songs I can remember hearing.

[@jasonparfitt5936]

This and rappers delight are two very important records .

[@socialmediadelinquent5781]

Man that brings back great memories, 1980s at the roller rink!

[@NocnaGlizda]

And not a single n-word in the entire piece. Respect. Classic, love it.

[@MrJnx713]

Greatest song in the history of Hip Hop

[@Wuntayk.J]

i commented react to this like months ago, and yea it was on 2006 happy feet, this song is 40 years old and still holds water to this day, especially the last verse

[@tonysousa9305]

This is a masterpiece!! 🔥

[@MrCholo35]

Grew up with this shit… til this day !! Ain’t know other best rap spit.. than this rap.. for sure.. puro…

[@SeanA.Skeete-wd4vi]

This young man looks like a "new age Jay Z😊" . Enjoyed their reaction to this Hip Hop "Classic🙏".

[@gregrambo606]

1982, South Bronx NYC where hip hop/rap all started.

[@danrudnick5252]

A lot of people just know the hook because Mase and Puffy used it in the 90's in their song Can't Nobody Hold Me Down.

[@PianoDentist]

This track blew me away when I first heard it and still does. I spent most of my youth on lino/cardboard, trying to find new moves to bust! The message is social commentary through art at it's finest. It warns against thug life, then for most of the rest of the 80's, hip-hop gets all gangsta, partying and money n hoes.

[@anthonyzarate9807]

You have a good point! I personally like the "gangsta rap" genre, especially NWA! I was a junior in HS, started to rebel (lived in the inner city) and my whole family started getting into gangs (Latin Kings). While I used to get pumped up and cause trouble when I listened, I actually turned my life around, and listened to it as a message of what not to do and how not to live. It cannot be denied that a lot of songs that NWA came out with were to send a message of how minorities were miss treated no matter what they were doing. We all know NWA were trying to make it in the music business from a young age, and they worked AD hard as anyone. Yet they still were treated as thugs and gang members. This is why I think they (especially Ice Cube) started to write the lyrics he wrote. P.S. When I say "Gangsta rap", I mean only certain artists, because a lot of them were just copy cats and really did send out a lot of negative messages. The biggest problem was wise people knew that is was more artistic expression, but unfortunately a lot of young and naive kids took it too literal.

[@PianoDentist]

​@@anthonyzarate9807 Cool story and I get where you're coming from! I must admit I still kept my eye on Hip Hop in the late 80's and did like NWA, Public Enemy etc. On balance though I think the 90's which was regarded as the golden era of hip hop still stands up today. Tribe called quest, Das-EFX, Fu-Schnickens, Naughty by Nature, Wu-Tang and too many to mention. I still love early hip-hop and electro though. Soul Sonic, Newcleus, Cash Money, EPMD etc. 💕

[@anthonyzarate9807]

@@PianoDentist Most definitely! They were all great! In fact, I'm from Milwaukee WI and my cousin went to HS with Todd Thomas (Arrested Development) and he was another RB/hip hop/funk (and a few other genres) who was underrated. I hated rock, especially heavy metal in the 80's. Then my eventual best friend (and one of his best friends) introduced me to Metallica, Jane's Addiction, Led Zepplin, Rush, etc...and that opened up my eyes to all music genres. Now I will listen to any and all music if it comes recommend by someone who knows music. If a musician and artist is great, it doesn't matter what genre the play or their background! P.S. I even like a bunch of country artists like Kenny Rodgers, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, and Johnny Cash. So if you feel a song in your heart and soul and you can relate to it, it doesn't matter who it is or the type of music!

[@kenlivingston3111]

Classic! I was twelve when this came out and I'm gonna be 52 and still love it. Thanks for the vid

[@quirkypurple]

Ice Cube sampled it "Check yourself before you wreck yourself!" haha

[@robmartin8389]

Tha dogg pound and kausion- I’ll do it🔥 2pac-open fire 🔥

[@DilPPickles]

She said “this was on Happy Feet” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 my brain thinks that way too

[@hughfuller8416]

This was real life for me growing up!!

[@jackiegoodspeed1849]

Sounds like you received the message?

[@hughfuller8416]

@@jackiegoodspeed1849 I did.

[@robertblackman7235]

The most important song in hip hop this song gave way to the Public Enemy and KRS1

[@ricowade4987]

message received and glad you understood and be analyzing these songs

[@johnnybenibo8513]

Nice 👍 message from grandmaster flash I like it,all the way from Lagos Nigeria.

[@gerikwiley1916]

This song is the Godfather of consciousn rap. It's probably the most important song in hiphop history.

[@canklehater]

Most epic rap song ever,started it all imo

[@musutdmustapha7540]

ice cube used this beat ( check yo self), the message is by far the greatest rap song ever, mad love from ALGERIA 🇩🇿

[@fhat6924]

You guys need to check out the song Cant Trust it by Public Enemy the song is hard and the video is even harder.

[@antoineporche-rideaux4841]

ice cube sampled the beat for his classic check yo self

[@dominic6283]

I'm a white guy who grew up in Brooklyn back then. Break dancing, graffiti and riding our bmx bikes was my childhood. Best time to be a kid before cell phones and the internet. We would be out in the streets all day long and nobody knew where you were. The last generation of having total freedom.

[@dragonflyparade8143]

Brilliant. I saw them at Warwick University Arts Centre decades ago and they blew us away. I've loved them since.

[@joshehrendreich4058]

Best. Hip Hop. Song. Of. All. Time.

[@tomekstrand1988]

Phil Collins got the laugh he did on the Genesis song "Mama" from this.

[@onastick2411]

an endless trope, "your eyes they tell the sad sad song, how you lived so fast and died so young".

[@AugieDoggyDoo]

They were beyond their time. Loved them. He was singing about the same things that are going on today. The elite globalists. Exactly like this. I am singing this in my head just watching what is happening in today's world. Sad. Glad you liked the song. It really did have a serious message.

[@highsummonerwill1874]

What I was saying. Victim's of the American social order. Doesn't matter you're race

[@paulamoya7956]

White Lines is a legendary song . Check it

[@brookehornback1896]

This was so cool and revolutionary back in the day. Respect.

[@chapo0815]

React to Ice Cubes 'Check Yourself'... He uses this beat...

[@Xman156]

I'm not a rap fan, but I do like some of the old school rap from the late 70s and early 80s when it all began. Have you reacted to Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang? It's the first rap song ever to get radio play and began the hip-hop movement. Another good one is Jam On It by Newcleus. They made a video based on a movie about breakdancing which was a cool dance style back in the day: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHbQmGh9lqZ7mM0

[@anthonyzarate9807]

Sugar Hill Gang was not considered average rappers to the other great rappers and hip hop artists back then. I gave a thumbs up because they were able to get rap play on radio and introduce it to the mainstream! The song is not bad at all, and they knew exactly how to introduce it to the mainstream. P.S. I was a huge Run DMC fan, they too do not get the respect they deserve for putting rap and hip hop all over the world. I still consider Run DMC top 10 all-time. Remember, they were first hip hop played on MTV (Michael was first black man).

[@Xman156]

@@anthonyzarate9807 Yes, I agree that Run DMC doesn't get the recognition they deserve. They too were pioneers of rap and hip-hop.

[@ACHICA_NUMCE]

Listen to Christmas wrapping by Kurtis Blow long version, or listen to Super rhymes by Jimmy Spicer

[@clarissagarza7284]

Brooooooooo!!!! That's deep into the Hip Hop rabbit hole!

[@razor-sharp]

Puff Daddy sampled this song with Can’t nobody hold me down. Ice cube also sampled this song with check yo self.

[@wfchornet2]

It was Melle Mel, not flash. Flash joined later as the DJ I believe Another notable member of the furious five was Kid Creole of Kid Creole and the coconuts fame I don't know the details but I believe there was an issue between Melle Mel and Flash after The Message and Melle Mel went his separate way and Flash and the Furious five then brought out White lines, another absolute massive tune I am open to being corrected if I am wrong, its been a lot of years and we didn't have the Internet back then 😉🤔

[@beyondquestion]

2:43... U sure it was this one tho? Not the "Puff & Mace" version? It coulda been that one u heard and now this is ringin the memory bells...

[@mrviggomartin]

My bestfriend Got this record back in like 1981-2 to little White boys here in denmark Got there mind blown

[@diablo4166]

Do Fu-Schnickens ft Shaq "What's Up Doc?" (Can We Rock)

[@CarlosHenrique-zb8xy]

Alguém no Brasil? Considero esse som um dos melhores Rap's de todos os tempos. 🇧🇷👏👏👏👏

[@ronalddunbar3981]

Mellie Mel verse is the hardest 26 bar’s ever spit!

[@shifterbbr1986]

Check out “White lines” by this group, it’s badass.

[@johnr4550]

Arguably the greatest rap song ever!!!

[@sgtking]

beat street breakdown grandmaster melle mel & the furious five reaction

[@michaelsatterthwaite4614]

He's thinking of Mase and Bad Boy. No one did this like Grandmaster Flash and the furious five.