Grandmaster Flash - The Message (Live The Tube 1983)

[MrTeatreeoil]

this the real RAP HIP HOP SHIT!!! THE LYRICS ARE SO REAL!!! IT'S A FUCKEN JUNGLE OUT HERE IN THIS WORLD!!!

[mimodweyda]

classic LMFAO lol

[rickfazer]

this video is cool t-shirts baggy pants its ok the song is my favourite plus this is funny because the furious five are bad at dancing. i like it at the end when the police man is naked .

from Kane rickfazer's son and Ben Kanes friend.

[fanofclassics]

Old school rap is the best!!

[discofunkmc]

MEGA !!!

[taverniarisgk]

close to the edit

[hikingbird42]

Lol siffler from American pie says the exact same line!

[cdl171271]

proper old school hip hop fuckin awsome back in the day and check the costumes out wow

[toidimaet]

Sometimes I wonder, what keeps me from going under

This keeps me from going under.

Grab GMF De la Soul, a tribe,

Smooth some, My old skool shit is properly irrelevant.. Shit happens and that song was gud. (?!). Or summit like that shite

[TheTerradas]

what the name of the song?hahahahahhahaha

[Tronchante]

Eau de Lacoste lol

[zer0nable]

2:20 thank god he was not on the record

[YouBeMadlol]

News: @LupeFiasco x @rickyrozay x @llcoolj x @common and others to perform "The Message" @ Grammy Nominations Concert!

bit (dot) ly/uMTm1x

[katarzynapoczatek]

ice cube- check yo self :P looool :D :D

thats where his inspiration is from ;)

[MrMatto1]

I was 11 years old living in Brooklyn in 1983. Great memories doing graffiti, break dancing and cutting school.

[giarcnella66]

If I had a time machine, this is where I'd be!

[julioguabi]

os melhores q ja vi, muito bommm!!!!

[julioguabi]

the best!!!! the best!!!!

[MultiSmiley06]

J ADORE JE M EN LASSE PAS!

[ebent24]

@korkhammaregon just to let you know it's Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Thanks for posting what is now one of my favorite vids ever

[RattusNorvegicus100]

haha all white people in the crowd



[MissInformed1967]

I wish I could get in a teleporter and go back to the 80's! Loved this song! Thanks for sharing : )

[selovlasi]

It's so goood !!!! My first rap song and best song !

[salamisumo2]

This was 10 years before I was born :( Goddamn it...

[MarilynFinland]

This is amazing. Everything about this is amazing.

[bradgotch]

Isley Brothers meet NWA! nobody new but these cats started Hiphop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crichards10ify]

i was in the audience!



[Migg83]

@crichards10ify Cool ! i was born in 1983...but this kind of rap make's me think about the times i was 5- 6 years old, watching mtv in the first years that it excisted. they played videos much longer then now, even it was a few years old

[bluefox9er]

@crichards10ify you lucky,lucky,lucky thing!

[luivi78]

@crichards10ify Please Can you up load photographies the audience? Thanks a lot

[crichards10ify]

@luivi78 Hi , I don't have any, sorry

[Kinubara]

You gotta love old school!! 

[8bobthebuilder]

I've watched this so many times that I'm beginning to remember the lines, l;ol

[JC44BC]

It's hip hop....Rap is something you do

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[rvdberg69]

Crack is Wack

[shoenberg3]

u know these guys are true performers when the live version sounds better than the recording

unlike most nowadyas..

[BMwarcrimes]

The tune that changed the world !!!

[tj10splayer]

HELL YEA COPS SUCK DICK!!!!

[tj10splayer]

that second guy was spittin

[tj10splayer]

i like this and respect it but im glad shit got gangster lol 

[TaroGabunia]

The greatest hip hop song

[shfullait]

smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers, pickpockets, peddlers, even pan handlers...

[SalaamAleykum]

Cartman: God Damn Hippies!

[SportsFanSam97]

43 got pushed over the edge and lost their head

[younescu]

thumps up if you watching this in 2011

[QBALLGINGER80]

I thought they lived in New York...where did this "jungle" come from?

[8bobthebuilder]

@QBALLGINGER80 i think "jungle" is a metaphor for life in the South Bronx in the 1970s...

[curtisjones400]

@QBALLGINGER80 growing up in the hood is like living in a jungle only the srong survive

[MrTrackfreek]

SIMPLY PUT-CLASSIC

[curtisjones400]

RAP MUSIC STARTED IN NEW YORK WITH THE SUGAR HILL GANG-GRAND MASTER FLASH -KUTIS BLOW AND WHODINI-THEY ARE THE PIONEERS OF RAP

[litg41]

@curtisjones400 what about africa bambaataa & the zulu nation?they were there at the beginning!

[DBanner96]

@HelpMeSkatePlease hahaha me to lol andi love this song

[Funkdogg]

i like these clothes

[donnettacoulter]

If you can remember this text back! Kinda reminds ya what's going on now

[ckBone24]

Classic Shit DAMN!!! Aye Flash didnt even have Technics 1200's in this performance!!! A real DJ made it happen!!! Back when you had to have talent ahh maaan!!!

[celestinec19]

oh oui toujours le meme plaisir 30 ans après

[mxpassion17]

NY Boogie down bronx stand up!!! thats wasup

[hijodechago]

sugarhill records' sylvia robinson seriously fucked them over.

[HelpMeSkatePlease]

wait, same beat as check your self by cube?

[lewtennant]

Ah dude you make me feel old.

[HelpMeSkatePlease]

@lewtennant lol im only 14!

[Kentuckyx9]

Das erinnert mich irg. an GTA :D !

[Djokica93]

Nobody will make this song again....

[slange71]

@Djokica93 I hope nobody will ever try this song...

[potrezaml]

HA HA HA  !!! LMAO at the end with the "cop" ... quite "violent" (even though it's fake...). Those guys are true thugs ...Must have been real New-York inner city black thugs, before ; I mean : true guys from the streets.

[potrezaml]

YO ! New-York city was brought to the U.K ! Come on : that's true, these guys, with their attitudes, their outrageous threads really brought N.Y. to The Tube ... London had always been a "hot" city too, but nothing in comparison with the New-York City in the 1980s (Now, I recognize it's different, cause the Big Apple is no longer the same...)

[j2themc]

rap usto come in leather and spikes and turbo shades and a + message lets all go back !!!

[remo5455]

I was born 3 years after this was made...shame I wasn't part of this movement in hip-hop.

[Gunnercv]

cool, i remember watching this live

[Gunnercv]

real rap!

[biondina65]

Awesome!!!! love this.....reminds me of the good old days!!!!!

[MsKiwistyle]

old but gold!!!

[danc0nia]

This is the birth of rap right here.

[smartalek1]

Beyond genius.

This is our Beethoven and our Shakespeare, both at once.

[333Paradigm333]

You bald, ugly, so and so. Get outta here. LOL

[giseba7]

The Original Rap.

Check out the guy @ 2:55 w/ the tassles! (well hung)

[Mickillzall]

ROFL so hard at the end.

[my69ization]

Best Rap Act in 1983 ... R.I.P. Cowboy, he died in 1989.

[CrazyMariooo]

O kurwa :D!! hheehe git

[RAZ3R1911]

rap legende

[51any]

vivement le 6 mai !!!

[drewettgirls]

Best song of the eighties. Period!

[bumpyheadman]

just uploaded two vids Against the wall (instrumental produced by 9th wonder), and a freestyle(off the top) over the "You got me" instrumental stop being dicks and check it out

[Thaa1gLow]

Is that Rick James in a silver wig??

[dropesotomayor]

Thats where all began!

[vowww1k]

)))))))

[rachelsmith1234]

reminds me of the good ole dayz lol

[ml2001]

TRUE RAP. Not replacable.

[DJSIMPLYP]

HIP HOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kmjwakey]

my theme tune 4 last 30 years take heed mfs

[bripell62]

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[Darkgod171990]

@bripell62 Author?

[toby8880161]

@what?

[35sexymoma]

Man I love this song. Reminds me of my belated husband

[hilliesse]

yeah man !!!

[EdwinVazquezMusica]

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five,.Pioneers of the TRUE Rap Form! With messages of Global&political world changes for Hope & a better way. Many of their messages dealt with the negative impact that stemed from experiences&stereotypes imposed on the youth at the time due to the rotting roots of racism,.

As you can see in this video G.M&The Furious Five dealt with these issues by using POSITIVE messages that AVOIDED words of hate&discrimination against THEMSELVES&others+E

[digski]

Great footage, 80's styling at it's best! Cheers for the post.

[gary55614]

Inspirational to many artist in the music industry today..Still rocks now as it did then.

[kcBOYmex]

oh thats where ice cube got his beat

[wilzusuki]

heathy hip hop

[wilzusuki]

my favorite song

[monkgoop]

thumbs up for the kia ad bringing you here

[MRCrowleyHellraiser]

Radio Los Santos :)

[Lantheoneandonly]

people backdays were ugly

[2KGrind09]

@Lantheoneandonly it wasn't a beauty contest....it was about the music

[MrWhistlejacket]

Bit o' class....

[2000gebbione]

Bellissimooooo

[k3llz67]

class!

[ROBBARROW1974]

Check out 'The Furious 5' fanpage on facebook for daily updates on the legends

[MillionAirL]

@diameux

thumbs up your ass cause you have no clue about this music, the car advert shouldn't and doesn't advertise this legendary song, as a matter of fact this song probably are causing a higher sales revenue for the Kia lol. But I do agree the advert Is hilarious

[Diameaux]

Thumbs Up If You Saw Dat Kia Ad :D

[bopz21bop]

34 people never been to the jungle ;)

[peverill]

wow these guys can actually sing without a studio to enhance their voice, wish the same could be said about todays artists

[djdrizzae]

Classic, Classic, Classic!!!

[darronjerome]

Grandmaster Flash,The Message LIVE 1983 !Celebrate Black History Month! | Lord Buck Entertainment

[huntedrasta]

HIP HOP

HIP HOP

HIP HOP

[puffalobill]

missed this performance. mustve been watching different strokes. who you talkin to willis?

[veriteinternational]

You can clearly see that once big money and corporations got involved in choosing which acts got financed, they subverted the global message of 'unity, no violence and no wars' into a pathological, homicidal audio assault on our communities. Independent rap has always been the most fertile, check out cats like homeboy sandman for current brain food. Peace, love and thanks forever to the old school pioneers!

[paulhunter123]

its good how they dont call each other niggas

[freshboy14911]

the 80s where the best times for music and its ashame that our generation is trash compared to back in the day

[cherubimification]

new york old times........

just madness on way

[iam01]

34 people that never got the message

[gerschpa]

@iam01 ...those people are deaf,dumb & blind...)

[iamarod007]

i c white ppl !

[immortalass]

holy shit. yup those were the eighties

[jusbkool]

Live you say????? Pros: You can actually hear them clearly and they're puttin on a good stage show. They are positive. Cons: Shame they can't play real instruments because the beat and groove held the song down. I know it's a short cut so they didn't have to learn to play one but that's one reason music died in school. I'm 40+ and this was my s%^ but groups like The Roots are showing ppl that real music by real musicans is the only way it can really be called "live".

[pcs2b]

Sounds better live.

[Dogma1Laboratories]

good stuff.

[mcfreddyfresh]

Just excellent!!!

[TheFABOUNETTE]

THE BEGINING OF AMERICAN RAP IN 1983 !! WONDERFUL !! I LOVE A LOT !!

[cmimiaga]

Tenia un año cuando esto pasó!! (I was 1 year old when this happened)

[4n71r14d]

thinked "this" started in 90'ies.......... <3

[obscurebandfan]

I like how they're talking about peace and not "Poppin' glocks in throats."

[topdoggm16]

@obscurebandfan That s because when they made this song the streets of the Bronx were EXTREMELY dangerous (Literally on fire!). These new rappers grow up lower-middle class and choose to sell drugs for street cred. Real Ghetto dudes HATE the ghetto and would never romanticize it! This is the realest rap song ever.

[Spraycando]

Brilliance. Got no right at all to knock these guys.

[Hypnochereutico]

I was born in the wrong era.

[DrJamesFeelgood]

As a nine year old boy growing up in rural England, I didn't have any experience of drugs, violence or "The Ghetto" but this song spoke to me in a way that nothing else ever has. When I saw this on a Friday teatime with fish fingers and mash on my lap in front of the telly, my life changed ladies and gentlemen. I wanted to move to New York, I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be black, I wanted everything. Music power.

[ILoveMuslims]

Beautiful...

[yvette4960]

"It makes me Wonder"

[ExpiredYogurt]

this was used in Jubba the Hut in Star Wars....?

[cherubimification]

HERE IN BRAZIL THHIS IS THE ESSENCE....

THE FATHER OF PICK UPS...........

ITS LIKE NEW YORK WORDS.....

FOR THE PEOPLE;;;;;

MY NAME IS THIAGO FROM SAO PAULO BRASIL

[miniskater1997]

okay than wildstyle fm haha xD

but its from grand theft auto :d

[SVinNJ]

If these guys showed up to do some work in your house and your wife and kids were there alone, and you were on a business trip, would you charter a private plane just to get home fast?

I sure would.

[Solar7647]

@SVinNJ Hell yea just so I could hang with them!

[miniskater1997]

its from grand theft auto xD flashback fm

[Fobar90]

@miniskater1997 no its from gta vice city, wildstyle fm

[wreckedd]

@Fobar90 It's not this version though, it's Ice Cube biting on the sample. I always gave him credit for this sound as well, glad I found the original!

[muuHtusproject]

This very strong in Brazil and face the mcs and rappers of the time as a DJ Hum Thaide and parents have taken this Grandmaster Flash ... but the parents of the gang was in fact very heavy in Brazil, (Rationals) can be considered Another big explosion of Grandmaster Flash-style gangster, hardcore, Geez ...

[anniechristien]

The Masters!

[jerman2003]

RAP MUSIC!

[karp47]

I remember when I used to work at a cd store in new jersey and grandmaster came in and bought an old kinks vinyl, crazy times!!!!

[Donato80s]

I'm from ITALY and I'm 22. Sometimes I think: "Ohh...I had to born in New York City back in that years!". Hip Hop Culture: Rap Graffiti Breakdance Djs YEAAAHH.

I'd like to be at The Tube that night, today I will had 49 years....but finilly I will felt myself so good!!

Respect from Rome.

[VivenziaMC]

that is the firtst song conscius of rap ???

este parece qe es el primer tema de rap consciencia ???

Bendiciones y Rap Chileno

[Donato80s]

@VivenziaMC

I friend, no this isn't the first conscious rap.....the first one is "Hard Times" of Kurtis Blow - from the LP "KURTIS BLOW" , 1980. This LP is also the first LP in Rap History.. bye man!

[VivenziaMC]

@Donato80s

thanks man

bless and rap chilean :)

[braingasim]

I remember this song back in the early 80's when I lived in Queens, NY and I went to the YMCA... Wow, memories.

[jerman2003]

@braingasim Cheers man, here's to old times!

[gershtoot]

This is my favourite song. i know its 2010, but who cares!

[83ChevyImpala]

Classic track from 83

"The bill collector's that ring my phone & scare my wife when I'm not home"

[nk801]

This video reminds me of Andre 3000's charisma on stage :))

[Meskalive]

j'imagine des rappeurs habillés comme ça aujourd'hui

could you imagine rappers dressed like this today ??

would be more than a f'ck!n loool

[TRB1946]

It's like a jungle sometimes............

[MrMLD72MLD]

@TRB1946 ♥

[Therealanimale]

Bad without 1 time the F word. Times have changed;)

[WhoKilledCallo]

not a single black guy in the crowd haha

[calumjlindsay]

did anyone else notice the person who sucks at clapping at 0:32? astonishing!

[sensweep]

the Parliament of hip hop

[natesharayanne]

it's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how i keep from going under

[bertmustin]

Who is exactly is rapping here? I know it's Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five but specific names would be appreciated.

[atosh76]

@bertmustin

The 2 rappers are actually: Grand Master Melle Mel and Raheem,

the other guys are Kid Creole, Scorpio & Cowboy

The guy with the sunglasses and the headphones is actually the legendary

DJ known as Grandmaster Flash

[bertmustin]

@atosh76

Thank you.

[jerman2003]

@atosh76 Wow, I always thought the MC was GMF, thanks for the info. This has got to be my fave rap song ever. There's many hip hop artists today I don't like, but when it's old skool, I just can't help but get up and shake what my momma gave me.

[pinkswirlz1515]

@bertmustin Melle Mel, Kidd Creole, Cowboy, Mr. Ness/Scorpio, and Rahiem

[ellanism1]

666th person to comment woo!!!!!!!

[SPERANZA65]

remember watching this at the time, i was 18...brilliant brilliant real FUNK

[Jaecht88]

that´s good quality

[nuevayoriquenyo]

c'mon man...respect due to the pioneers but yo...those wardrobes...the silver wig and shit...i mean...was it necessary...LOL

[lolamerano]

das war einfach unglaublich damals :)

[palpatine17]

I will always have RESPECT for these guys!!! <3333