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.

"This whole book was scary for me," Grandmaster Flash admits when discussing his new tell-all book in a recent interview. "We as human beings, we don't willingly display our skeletons, our pains, our ...

It seems almost impossible that hip-hop would trace its origin back more than three decades to an engineering student with a penchant for experimenting with vinyl. Yet before he was Grandmaster Flash, ...

Fletcher started writing the song in 1980 while working at Sugar Hill Records as a studio musician. The label released the early records of the Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious ...

Duke Bootee, the pioneering rapper who co-wrote and appeared on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic “The Message” — Number One on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of ...

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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 ...

*Today marks a moment in history when hip hop and its anti-establishment cousin, punk rock, came together on the same New York stage in disastrous fashion. In 1981, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious ...