Episode 4 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five- The Message - Pull Up Series
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In this episode we pull up a timeless classic and a game changer in the world of Hip Hop. This song changed the way how MC's started to become more recognised just as much as DJ's within the hip hop scene. The Message single has won various awards and was also voted the greatest rap song of all time in 2012 by a group experts listed by the 'Rolling Stone Magazine'. The song is a social commentary about the issues people face in the poorest areas of New York City, it was one of the first songs to speak about wider issues rather than the original concept of hip hop which was to party and have a good time. Let's get into this and see why this song changed the landscape of hip hop when this was first recorded in 1980.
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