At first, there was no message. Rap was all bluff and bluster. Party stuff, straight up. Hip hop, you don't stop. Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care. Somebody scream.

At first, there was no message. Rap was all bluff and bluster. Party stuff, straight up. Hip hop, you don't stop. Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care. Somebody scream.

Coi Leray’s latest single “Players” samples Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic song “The Message.” Coi Leray appreciated Grandmaster Flash’s approval of her new single “Players,” which ...

LOS ANGELES -- The 1982 hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time Wednesday, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine to ...

It’s a long way from DJ Kool Herc’s back-to-school party for his sister at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx on August 11, 1973 to a balmy late summer Saturday evening in downtown L.A. Some 50 years ...

Hip-Hop legend Melle Mel discussed Coi Leray sampling Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” for her hit single “Players.” Melle Mel weighed in on Coi Leray’s song “Players” at ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as Grandmaster Flash. Amidst the infancy of hip-hop culture, Grandmaster Flash ...

There are several new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Van Halen, REM, the Ronettes, Patti Smith and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. That's right — Kid Creole, Cowboy, ...

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