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Dan Cairns of The Sunday Times has described "The Message"'s musical innovation: "Where it was inarguably innovative, was in slowing the beat right down, and opening up space in the instrumentation—the music isn't so much hip-hop as noirish, nightmarish slow-funk, stifling and claustrophobic, with electro, dub and disco also jostling for room in the genre mix—and thereby letting the lyrics ...
The Message is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, released on October 3, 1982, by Sugar Hill Records. It features the influential title track and hip hop single "The Message".
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group formed in Englewood, New Jersey in 1979. Their hit " Rapper's Delight ", released the same year they were formed, was the first rap single to become a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , [ 1 ] reaching a peak position of number 36 on January 12, 1980. [ 2 ]
The Showdown: The Sugarhill Gang Vs. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Released: February 2, 1999; Label: Rhino Records / Warner-Elektra-Atlantic — — — — 2005 Essential Cuts. Released: June 27, 2005; Label: Union Square Music — — — — 2006 Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five: The Definitive Groove Collection
CIRCA 1979: Rap pioneers the Sugar Hill Gang (L-R Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike and Master G) pose for a portrait circa 1979. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images .
The additional members The Lord La Von, Larry Love and Mr. Broadway formed the "Furious Five" but they could not use the name as Sugar Hill Records owned the rights. Grandmaster Flash and his new "Furious Five" had a few hits with their three albums that made it to the top fifty of Billboard ' s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, whereas Melle Mel and ...
Keith LeBlanc, Pioneering Drummer on Early Hip-Hop Classics by Grandmaster Flash and Sugar Hill Gang, Dies at 69. ... Duke Bootee, Co-Writer of Hip-Hop's Iconic 'The Message,' Dies at 69.
He popped in a cassette of the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.” We all listened to the entire song in disbelief. Victor’s father owned a disco and loved any kind of electronic equipment.