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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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