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RE: 📀 Mixtape Monday Song & Contest- 🤘🏽No Resteem, No Follow, No Upvote Required🤘🏽
What makes a classic - well for me something that is entertaining, and something that represented a change in the music scene, there are thousand great songs out there, almost anything from Queen, Stevie Wonder, Dylan, so many, but I'm going to a different direction. The Song 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious five, not the first rap song to be a hit (although many think it was) but within the first few, and the first with (dare I say it) A message, meaning everything from Public Enemy to Michael Franti owe a lot to this. Would I have heard it at the time, unlikely, when did I first hear it, not sure probably late 80's as I started to get into music with a message (Billy Bragg, Midnight Oil and co).
Yes, great track!!!
I think Gil Scott-Heron was probably the first 'rap' artist, but this track certainly did change a lot of things. Maybe the first to really bring to the fore how many Black Americans were living in the cities? I mean, Gil Scott-Heron was doing that with his music, but he was before MTV...
Grandmaster Flash comes along with his very unique sound, as well as the accompanying visuals, and we start getting a very different picture of life in Urban America.
this is definitely a classic, defined and change the game for sure. good stuff!