Grandmaster Flash - New York New York.

[@gumnentkilla5093]

This is what rap is supposed to be. Actual musicians and not a single "F" word. I remember picking up this on vinyl when it came out.......in 1983!

[@BeverageGuzzler]

So, you're against freedom of speech ? Which is what all music is supposed to be about. And are you conveniently ignoring the fact that this song contains both the B word and N word in it ? Also, another Hip Hop song from this same era that was released a year after this one had swearing in it, which contained the MF word, it's called "The Roof is on Fire" ( 1984 ) by Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three.

[@Littlemouse884]

You should check out some NZ rap & hop hop as it's still like that

[@SMATF5]

How is this not the most popular song in the history of hip-hop?

[@emmettw.christian3rd.145]

Not totally true, actually the song New York New York has been sampled many times by various rap artists and singers so it gave an insight and an understanding about that part of New York and a lot of people that's not from New York had never been in New York know about that's my take so you say it's not one of the best songs in history I can partially agree with you on that but the song turned out it's several cash check out the dog pound check out that's all I know the dog pound and one other guy has sampled it but a bearish people that sampled it and a couple of them had did pretty good on the sales...

[@ralphrichards216]

Factz Of Life

[@sokratahmetovic4614]

Well, there is also a very popular song The Message, by the same band/Gang.

[@vasjaocvirk4833]

It should be. I grow up with sex pistols and grandmaster flash.

[@AAInventors]

We 're going to the 2nd week-end in 2022..looking for that Taï restaurant with waterfall on their walls. I 've been there once..

[@eugenedantzler4485]

If you pay attention to the words... this song described many cities across America..... I love this song

[@hanstun1]

Not correcting grammar but ... describeS.

[@TheSpecialTimes]

Absolutely. This exists from New york city to the smallest cities in India. When it comes down to it, it's survival. It's not all life and death , sometimes it's scraping together just a few dollars.

[@Amidat]

@@TheSpecialTimes well not exactly.... not every city is a city of dreams... and the more crowded the city the more easy it is to get lost in the sauce - so small cities don't fit it either

[@Amidat]

well most cities in America didn't have sky scrapers back then... most weren't overcrowded either.

[@olevet75]

@@hanstun1 hans ziz iz just a typo, relax..

[@gabrielmatthews9494]

When Rap was Genuine, and actually teaching something culturally accurate. "Nobody loves me, nobody cares, I dream about life, but I'm living in a nightmare" true to this day.

[@danavixen6274]

Hip Hop geniuses right here! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@jaye501]

one of the top five songs of hip hop... i remember when it first came out... i was awe struck... the verses about the girl and the baby brought tears to my eyes... monumental piece of work...

[@nucleus3733]

Yeah. That verse gets me. The guitar crying is perfect.

[@zbigniewh.8471]

Good old times, my friends used to practice breakdancing in the 80's

[@nowitsabadtime]

First ever trip to Manhattan, and got to see Breakdancing for the first time! It went mainstream about 1 year later.

[@Amidat]

where in Manhattan? and what year? when it started it was mostly a Bronx thing. Though the Lower East Side and Harlem were places in Manhattan you would see

[@themurderguns7973]

NICE!

[@smurfunkown6774]

LMAO

[@WarlordMoA]

this type of hip hop should make a come back in 2020, getting tired with modern music.

[@camdenwyeth316]

@Nate-O- Nation Well where is it

[@yandunker4273]

Funk was even better ... when made well.

[@TerryOnTuesday]

I'm 55 this year, and planning on doing a tune in this style. Nothing much has changed.

[@KevinGloverpost24]

Over 30 yrs and this is still applicable today. Grandmaster Melle Mel one of the best ever!

[@juergensuess9041]

It's even over 40 years now, and still great!❤

[@matrixxs]

This was the cut , a master piece , hold value still till this day,

[@MrYuriniko]

"...In my opinion an underrated track with great lyrics." Absolutely agree!

[@rachaelclarke1033]

Totally agree 👍

[@rachaelclarke1033]

Agree wholeheartedly

[@freakflagflies]

I wore out this cassette til it broke in a few places back then. Taped it back together with scotch tape. I hadn't heard it for a long time. So glad I found it.

[@umbleyoself3624]

The bass licks are what got me hooked on this song when I was in my early teens...it rips even still 35+ years later.....theses guys, Sugar Hill and Curtis Blow cut a path for all other 80$ rappers that followed....what history! My fun teen years and fond memories. Thumping the bass grew poplar in the 80$ and it still sounds good to me.

[@robhekkers517]

that's Doug Wimbish

[@differentdrummer6162]

The bass turned my head - it still does.

[@oxcart4172]

That guitar piece is perfect!

[@wilsonclaudio8820]

Adoro

[@wilsonclaudio8820]

E quero conhecê-los

[@urbanbader4113]

There's much guitar

[@jemine5396]

This song is telling some serious story behind... You should play it more often people!

[@russelladams7134]

Geminai Jamminay Yeah this is that real social commentary about life in New York city during the Reagan era. This song and The message are really the most powerful and most influential songs ever with Tupac's "Brenda's Got a Baby".

[@Amidat]

@@russelladams7134 "the Message" was almost like a sequel to this

[@omegawicked1]

yessir

[@yandunker4273]

Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.

[@jemine5396]

@@russelladams7134 Reagan was the greatest president ever tho.

[@MrCozin-kd9mb]

I swear that when listened, this song I move to that time, same year of this release and I see everythings of 80's ambient. The clothes, the old technologies, builds, square cars, mainly Caprices taxi crossing the streets. Looks like so real.

[@worldwidestreets8649]

Yup, crazy how they were even using synthecisers back then, same shit they do nowadays, loud sound, the recipe is the same but nowadays it's a lot of dumb talk lol but it's amazing how timeless this is, the Blueprint 🙏🙏

[@weiesnbach]

Melle Mel, a fucking poet....

[@johndavis6719]

What do you think R.A.P. stands for you already awnserd the last part for yourself.

[@pulp735]

Amazing song! Never lived in New York but visited a number of time. I love New York but I think it's easy to get a hint of something more lurking beneath all the glitz and the glamour.

[@enebody]

The first Rap album I ever bought...no downloads, no itunes no ipods,and no internet and we still did the damn thing!

[@VelvetBulldozer]

Grew up with this song in Sweden back in the early 80's. Kind of the same situation today 40 years on in Stockholm. If New York was bad in the 70-80's what have we learned in the world several decades later? Other than the music, I guess not much. But music inspiration is great and often times for the good. Great rhymes my bros! Love you

[@urbanfryk2878]

Cheers from Gothenburg!

[@dawnbell9433]

I remember this, classic hip hop.Prophetic Visionaries.

[@michaelmueller7405]

grew up in an industrial city in Germany ... was the only one who was listening to that music when i was 15 .... they looked at me in a very strange way 🙃 but i loved every song from them. Had a friend who brought me some vinyl directly from NY then ... no official recordings as far as i remember .... no idea where he got them from ... but yes ---- i just loved that music .... beside computer games they taught me English ... still getting goosebumps these days when i listen to them again ... hahaha and the girls liked it too then ... knew all the lyrics when they finally played them in the clubs and they asked "oh u know all that?" ... worked well 😁

[@urbanfryk2878]

Grüss Gott!

[@stevenharris716]

The message & this one.. Two of the best most important beginnings of hip hop. Mel & Duke. Inspiration! R.I.P. Duke! There would be nothing without these guys! RESPECT!

[@eddiemuise4791]

Living in Toronto now and still listening to this

[@qkb3128]

Wow, nobody seems to make it like this anymore.

[@francisbradley1027]

Grandmaster, I listen to this. a lot. Yeah

[@karoliinakivela2498]

they were pioneers!! everybody copied them but they wont admit it!

[@disasteraka]

EXACTLY, PIONEERS BEFORE THEY WERE CALLED LEGENDS.

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

You can feel the dusk and city lights in the music. Amazing song.

[@chriscollins570]

So original to a genre! The electronic synapse and spot-on rhyme meter sends a resounding message to this old Country/Bluegrass fan. Few Rap/Hiphoppers can replicate this unique composition! Need to get subsidies for Brooklyn Bed Sty/Williamsburgers to vacation at Apache/Ute "Reservations" out west, and Kansas farmers to see what rough inner-city life in Detroit/West Baltimore is like. Then we come together more unified!

[@daxterclark5092]

maybe...I doubt it though,unfortunately

[@axiomist1076]

Looking at New York from the bottom up - It's hard. Great song. Sugar Hill is a real hill, in Harlem.

[@tunedtfin917]

Yeah but the sugarhill gang are from New Jersey but they started their carrer in the bronx thats why NY always shouts out Jersey in these songs

[@Brine7Q]

the Snoop dogg remake of this classic was insane guys "Dogg pound"

[@martin68412]

fühl mich wieder zurück in meine Jugend...haben das zeug ganzen tag gehört....aber die texte nicht wirklich verstanden...aber wir haben breakdance versucht....war geil...

[@patrickjakob1065]

Ging uns nicht anders :-) War einfach nur eine geile Zeit^^

[@yandunker4273]

Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.

[@SSingh-nc8hb]

@@yandunker4273 I dont know too much about that. Just because in the western hemisphere demographic numbers are reducing does not mean this happens worldwide. Außerdem brickst du den deutschen Vibe hier haha :D Die homies haben es verstanden!

[@solozoilpatrinosiciliano]

original genius first OG this is still bumbin in my head like it was yesterday this like never stop be for my better than everthing today is about the layrics and nessage behind only if new sound !!!old school is legandary never dies forever !!!

[@louisadrill7060]

reading books gets everyone out of the ghetto.keep reading regardless of the internet

[@DjTIMEJD]

Resources and money gets you out the Ghetto. Unfortunately both are scarce.

[@louisadrill7060]

both@@DjTIMEJD

[@genieknight6858]

Love this song. Had it on vinyl. Been looking for years. Thanks brought back good times memories for me.

[@TRIMARTheatres]

I hear Brenda’s gotta baby in this song too

[@carlbowles1808]

New York, new York and the message are my favorites. We had problems at least we didn't have Corona virus.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

No but there was the start of the AIDS outbreak in the 80s

[@danieltheprophet9893]

Y did ppl say west coast artist was the 1st to cuss in there raps when this song has cussing in it and this came out before NWA Short and T

[@Aerochalklate]

2:33 first time the wonderful word was used in a song in rap/music HISTORY. -_-

[@KtotheL]

i still know every word of this song by heart. shame there is no video to accompany it. imho their best work...

[@erlendsteren9466]

I heard this back in 1983, found it again . Fantastisk. Very good lyrics.

[@marvinhagler4721]

Havent heard this in YEARS...PEACE TO MELLE MEL

[@landybitz]

The lyrics are as relevant today as there were in 1983. Last verse is deep.

[@omegawicked1]

yes it was

[@yandunker4273]

Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die. In fact NorthAmerica and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@yandunker4273 quiet nazi

[@eloelo6944]

@@yandunker4273 word up bro, didn't expect a comment like that randomly here though

[@MaciejDamian-hc4te]

Last verse is mental

[@latonyamsummers1]

Woke up singing this chorus. Haven't heard it since I was 12 and had no idea it was this deep. Wow!

[@scottgreen5627]

Mell hands down greatest mc . Greatest ever past and present. His lyrics are so deep and true.

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Greatest rap song of all time in my opinion. Way ahead of it's time. Even better than The Message in my opinion

[@TheAlmightyAss]

Message has that one verse though, sets it apart from everything else. Neon King Kong standing on my back...

[@raymondflores6410]

Fair enough

[@billydanzz]

Agreed. You really understand the lyrics in the verses more when once you reach that middle-aged point in life. Then realize that these were kids barely in their 20's when they wrote these songs.

[@MrChin-uz6tt]

True crime new York city brought me here!...

[@luciusirving5926]

Ditto! I love that game.

[@trex4956]

Great Song from the 80`s Thank`s

[@Zupizupi-q2n]

I'm 16, german and I love oldschool origin-/ underground-/ alternative hip hop, it's everything I'm listening to all day, almost every day. Even if the most of todays youth doesn't know anything about good music,... don't judge too fast.

[@urbanfryk2878]

Oldschool rules! I had this tune on vinyl back in the days! We are not alone - at all! Cheers from Sweden! I'm 60 and alive and kicking - peace! Doug Wimbish!? A million thank's for upload phil x! God bless! And hot damn (!) give us more!

[@Greatest1979]

Tha Dogg Pound Gangstas say..... RESPECT!!!!

[@sactownloc9165]

This way before the dogg pound

[@falakeexdrolly3938]

@@sactownloc9165 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iX2YaZioqNV6qtk Respect

[@Dtd2483]

@@sactownloc9165 everyone knows. Dogg pound sampled this track to show respect and love for New York, but it was taken the wrong way by some

[@vanessacarlander2987]

In my opinoion lyrics sharper than "the message" this one no.1

[@MikeSwede1]

You are No1 Vanessa.

[@richardmanuel9812]

Close

[@stefandee1970]

very first rap i ever heard... love it...

[@celestinemeyers4326]

Gotta pay homage to all the artists came from NYC the Meeca of hip hop.

[@tmains5365]

54 years ahead of their time. Please come back with conscious music to wake the world up!

[@FINYL72]

Grandmaster flash is a genius so many great songs

[@lowbo47omsascotave]

*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !* _Tappin' in from South Central LA_ The definition of "reality rap". 🤜🏾💥🤛🏾

[@Dropski82]

Found the full record diggin in my father in laws collection

[@fatbuddy719]

Melle Mel doesn’t get enough credit for his contributions to hip hop. I only learned recently that he was the main MC and Grandmaster Flash was the DJ.

[@luciusirving5926]

Melle Mel is awesome though.

[@bradnobl]

Forgotten classic, the real NewYork.

[@Able2591]

Fantastic. One of The Best Hip-Hop Tracks.

[@moserr11]

Folks this is hip-hop crawling out of the primordial sludge. And I was there to see it first hand. The 12 inch of this AWESOME.

[@johndavis6719]

It would be dope if New York Artists covered this song as a tribute.

[@captainharris8980]

I was there too. I heard it on KSFX out of SF of all places. A station that played primarily hard rock, but tossed in the occasional soul or new wave album, and of course, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

[@wcstandsforme]

I still have all these albums on 12'.

[@ralphrichards216]

SKOL ..😎 Listening N Minneapolis

[@cityjamer9028]

New York.. Electro was born there ;D And the Bronx can tell stories .. I LOVE THIS!!

[@moserr11]

This got me into breakin'

[@worldwidestreets8649]

Deep.... WORLDWIDE 🙏🙏🙏✊✊

[@ClintTorres607]

My gen. Bought the ep. Relistened recently. So good. Very deep.

[@susannehesse911]

My youth

[@djlarryb68]

I live in Northwest Alabama and I use to pick up stations out of Memphis, Tn. and this is where I heard this. Love this song! Very deep song. Too Much Too Many People!

[@FELIPE2MOURA]

what a vibe...amazing

[@utahsaint365]

Classic Hip Hop. No swearing, just rapping about how it was, and still is...

[@iamnotpablo]

songs were SEVEN MINUTES then... no rush...

[@paulajones114]

This IS my Favorite hip hop song OF ALL time's! It tells the story STRAIGHT!¡! SADLY STILL.

[@macreal65]

This song is before its time. It is what America is going through right now! It's just more in our face! It's just not all relocated to NY anymore.

[@stevenharris716]

Hip hop the way it's supposed to be! These guys are still the best even after all these years....

[@jaybrown1059]

Sugarhill New York, newyork

[@401Rob]

2018 and I Still know all the words . Crazy

[@desmond4421]

grew up in Chicago loving this shit who you looking at with a face like that

[@louielucifer]

Thank you for this post. Awesome song who's lyrics expressed the disorders of the times back in the day. Unfortunately things haven't changed almost 30 yrs later.

[@craignightingale8022]

Baby abandonment in a trashcan. Dark, man.

[@3912James]

After all these years....I still love this rap song.

[@robertbweltzien]

That's how it was for many in NYC in the early eighties. I grew up there in the sixties and went back in the 2000s for med school. I don't plan on ever returning.

[@akira5952]

listened billion times... ...and more.

[@bufflowsouljah2256]

dope lyrics..relates to the times today.

[@thisizdub]

Folks, this is where the Dogg Pound Got that song

[@isaacennis2077]

Yup

[@AaronC22-t5q]

Classic hop

[@gsomase2433]

learned the whole song in like 10 min its a good song im a teen..... at 12 i learned this in music class

[@aaronwaugh8087]

i was 14 when this came out

[@leslieraymond6372]

Aaron Waugh me too

[@JurgenSpeck]

My first breakdance experience in the 80s in school !!!

[@daxterclark5092]

Classic from my high school days!!

[@andreabeska3051]

Eine echte perle best of 80s ever

[@tomesirgendwer7249]

Ja Mann!!!

[@dartenyagranger29]

Grandmaster Flash - New York New York.

[@kevinsadler7235]

Now this is what I'm talking about! Nothing like that "Good Old-School" there baby! It's Very Intellectual. And you can Understand Every Word!! Now what y'all younguns know about this?!!

[@urbanfryk9907]

Great memories from back in the days!

[@keithfrance6191]

This song still has relevance in today's society !

[@simonemax6175]

These are the roots 😍

[@josecaraballo5224]

Great song!

[@dvharris75]

Im proud the be the third person to comment. This track is not just a song it is a PIECE OF MUSIC HISTORY. The youth of today have no clue about songs like this. Songs like this is what built rap music.

[@deutscheskind9629]

I feel the 80'👍

[@eddiemuise4791]

heard this in Montreal.wow

[@JohnStamps-zn4hs]

I like New York New York better than the The Message, I still have all my Sugar Hill records, The Show Down The Sugar Hill Gang & The FURIOUS FIVE, and who can't forget THE WHEELS OF STEAL, FLASH Cutting It Up. Those's were the good old days.