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  • this is dope! kinda like run dmc

  • @b0mbazticNegroww No, this is briiliant and (as others have observed) serious stuff....

  • Bad ass song real rap!! Old school

  • this is how a middle of nowhere 12 year old suburban brat found hip-hop 28 years ago. still one of my favorites ever.

  • liston like rap religion

  • So I'm 17, and I was looking for hip hop thats different from what I hear on a daily basis, I wanted something that spoke what I thought and felt, and I've finally found it, as soon as I graduate and get this solid education for my mom, I will pursue music in it's purest form #EyesOpened

  • @JuniorTheRealOne Nice one, Mate. Definitely a Masterpiece at the time too. Will always be. Epic piece of Literature. Penned by a Genius of oratory and delivered with some considerable grace. A great piece of work.

  • 115

  • Best Rap Ever!

  • is a sound orgasm this song grandmaster flash & melle mel rules

    beatstreet breakdown!

  • This one of my favorite raps when the rap was rhythmic to the music i

  • 4:21 - 5:17

    He's predicting the future. Actually he already predicted it, all that's missing is the last part for the prophecy to come true.

    Incredible, and scary.

  • The message of this song still has relevance even now.

  • Man, this is about as Old School as hip hop can get. Brings back memories of the Eighties.

  • ΒΕΑΤ STREET MANIA

  • the best beat of old school

  • And even the movie was good too. It was the realistic, dark opposite of the much too happy 'Breakdance, the movie'.

    In this movie, people actually died in the ghetto, like in real life.

  • omg this is like more badass than i even remember!!! :::))))

  • I took to take my son to the rap concerts back in the early 80s .

    My son is now in his 30's Mellie Mel is possibly one of the finest rapper's poets the ever lived. If you think, Beat Street was heavy to listen and think about. ( The Message) made you laugh but also make you think and learn and become informed at the same time.

  • This just maygbe the greatest rap of ALL TIME

  • THE LYRICS TO THIS WILL MAKE BLOOD DRIP FROM YOUR EARS..SOME THE THE DEEPEST LYRICS EVER IN HIP-HOP..NOT ONLY DID YOU GET A HISTORY LESSON, BUT IT WAS AS IF HE WAS PROPHESYING THE FUTURE..AND IT ALL CAME TRUE....I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE RETURN OF THE REAL HIP-HOP...ONE DAY...BOOGIE-DOWN BRONX FOREVER...GRANT AVE.

  • lyrical and deep.

  • Every word as relevant today as it was then. Part of me would like to know why. Beautifully Penned Literature always has that effect. A powerful Piece. A VERY Powerful Piece. When I first heard this, I knew I'd just heard something important and I always feel that way when I hear it. Lyrical Genius!!!

  • @stig99914 you said it perfectly

  • @JohnnyP8one Sometimes it's important to doff your cap at the things so deserving of that kind of Respect. The talent required for such writing seems to be quite lacking these days. It's there, but rare.

  • HOT DAMN MELLE MEL IS LYRICAL!

  • one of the best songs ever. nuff said.

  • Beat Street..... The movie that launched Hip Hop! Nuff said

  • hip hop lyrics 1984s: "a newspaper burns in the sand, and the headline says 'man destroys man' "(melle mel)....... hip hop lyrics 2000s: "i got ten bathrooms, i could shit all day...."(lil wayne). wow.

  • This song go hard check out Crack City DVD channel

  • uhm, the take released on the record I had back then, was cut! they cutted:

    "Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan

    Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin

    Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran

    Men spill the blood of the weaker man"

  • Thankyou for sharing this track, it brings back many memory's of back spinning, body popping general breakdancing etc: I can't believe I still know 97% of the words to that rap? As I tell my kids, "daddy's still got the groove?" lol! Thanks again........

  • SWANGIN N BANGIN

    

  • BREAK DANCE......BREAK LATINOS NUEVA ARAGON MEXICO

  • went to see this movie like 20 times and it never got old. Miss those days, but don't complaint about now neither.

  • I dont like hip hop but this is awsome. I think that this is the truth. People die for no reason and so soon. This song speaks nothing but the truth. Can you beleive GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five got Rock n' Roll hall of fame. This is the hall of fame that Buddy Holly, Elvis, and other things that made history were in. I truly think that that they belong there...

  • OL' Skool Hip Hop!!!!!!!!!

  • Still Fresh 27 years later.lol from a diehard 41 year old.

  • German Kill Jews Is Not True. Nowadays Jew Killz Palestinians 5:18 . Times Changed !

  • Melle Mel's the only name worth being mentioned, that, and whomever produced this (Grandmaster Flash I'd like to think)

  • I have always concider this song a masterpiece.

  • People keep dissing on modern hip hop and it deserves it! this is art pure and simple. Sigh this is what hip hop once was to bad i wasn't alive at the time!

  • was a great time

  • Yeah, the original real shyt...remember "EVERYBODY SAY RAMON....RAMON"....

  • OMG ITS A WHITE ONE!!!!!! lmao

    Love u for posting this..

    Me and my boys are blessed to be in the Subway Book of Art!!

    SHOUTS TO DUSTY AND ARCHER!!!

    *sprays*

    Storm Shadow On the wall of shame lol

    Peace DaRealNeo! +++ Click

  • I Love This Grandmaster Melle Mel 1984 Hit, "Beat Street Breakdown," Which Became A Top 10 R&B Hit In America.

  • A soundtrack to the revolution!

  • HOW CAN WORDS SPIT OVER 20 YRS. AGO STILL BE SO RELEVANT! TRUE ESSENCE OF MC....THANX MELLE MEL!

  • Fuck all that Lil' Wayne and Drake shit.

    This is true music and a masterpiece.

    shame that kids these days have to listen to all this 2010 rap crap.

  • "and don't be a slave to no computer"...written around 83' way way way before we all had PCs, now we are all slaves to computers, he was a prophet

  • @stv62575 i thought it was a reference to terminator, since it came out about the same time, but i'm not sure

  • let me break out the fat boy lice's

  • ive got something to clarify.. hiphop soon evolved because they soon had the access to technology right? because it got famous?

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  • i though that nwa wus thet bets i still love them and the fat boys and everyotehr good old school rapper but once i heard this i just like realides this is the best song and beat and rap i mean it just so amaizng and the words flow so good

  • You guys know we are considered freeks for liking these right? -.-

    BUT I STILL LOVE IT!

    Best of Grandmaster Flash!

  • w0w just beutiful.. Great lesson to be learned "you cant' let the streets beat you".. sick ! wat a true lyricist... I remember hearing this as a kid, an wow it is still powerful, and truth full..

  • now this is good rap no cuz words now a day ever song has like 100 bad words and this song u can turn it up and everyone will like it

  • So Peaceful ! I love this song and above all the real message!!

  • Melle Mel was kickin' some REAL KNOWLEDGE on this joint. Deep message with no doubt! PeacE!

  • my fav scratch rap... this is wut all young peeps should hear.

  • One of the greatest songs ever! I watched Beat Street again for the 1st time in 20+ years and man, i forgot how fun this movie is! Awesome break dancing, great music and a cool/positive message! Now i wish i could find my damn Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 double cd collection so i can rock too it again! I love this song!

  • his words express the issues we have today. beat street was my movie and we need this type of power to the people ( all people) and a huge wake up call. brb gonna blast this outta my window maybe these assholes outside can get the message.

  • anyone know who this song is written about?

  • @poopascoop4eva the people

  • @poopascoop4eva is written about a movie and this guys friend diead in a train election zap that killed him watch the movie and u will understand it ok. IT called beat street god movie watch

  • AMAZING

  • this shit is deep and true listen up people this was made long ago in my prime time and stands true today still more than ever

  • I think this is the song played during a scene in the movie Terminator, when Kyle Reese is hot-wiring the car.

  • wish we could turn back time ! ..

  • hell yeah.

  • shit yeah.

  • my first white nike, pretty colour laces, all marked up with colours, trust me, those days were bomb

  • oh god man, i remember the days, pretty sneakers n windbreakers, i miss those days

  • the world didnt changed a bit in this 20+ years....everything he said in this song is happening today...

  • Maybe he was premonising

  • @microsoft637 ya i know but this song is bad ass right i mean im 16 and only lisen to old school rap like this and eazy e i hate lil wyane and f biener am i right ad me as a frien dk

  • @microsoft637A lost generation this has become. The real hip hop revelation spoken from the true hip hop movers & shakers! 2011 & all that was said those 25 + years ago is almost as if it was recorded yesterday. They even saw the detremental effect that the computer would have on the world. WOW!!!

  • the scratchin in this tune gives me goosebumps

  • THE first GREAT lyricist in all of hip hop word

  • you seem to remember the days man

  • This song is pure fucking genius. The beat is is hot, the lyrics are so poignant and powerful... these people were pioneers.

  • the greatest rap ever rapped

  • what all these mainstream rappers need to do is go back to the roots of hip-hop. instead of all this mumbo jumbo there on now. what these new mainstream rappeers are forgeting is that hip-hop is more than music, its a movement.

  • @martinezluis72 Funny, because Rock fans adore the patriarchs and rap fans don't. Weird, I just don't understand it.

  • @visionimagify alot of rap fans don't adore today's hip-hop cause it from being an art form with lyricism and a strong message to meanless raps and sucker MC's doing it to make a quick paycheck..... even actors like Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell can come up with better raps than today's current rappers.

  • I've been trying to find this track from Melle Mel called "The Mayor". I bought an old school hip hop cd from the dollar store and it had alot of old rare hip hop tracks. I really couldn't believe what was on the cd from the dollar store! Unfortunately the cd was stolen ages ago. If anyone has this song, PLEASE let me know, I miss it and it's a bad, bad jam.

  • i can download it from youtube and send it to you

  • This is one damn good movie.

  • herd this record when i was little man like in 94

  • I was born in 1986, but I first heard this song from going through my dad's cassette tape collection (My dad liked SOME rap) and I was totally intrigued by this song. This song is the shit!

  • my favourate rapper MELLE MEL, this is the good music

  • check out my old school rap playlist lemme know whatcha think

  • That beat is straight killer! Even the rapping is ON beat with the music. Can't say that for much of the garbage on the radio nowadays. Just like Ice-t said to the Soulja Dickboi, "That supaman bullshit ain't gonna fly"!

  • Man, I remember when I was in the 4rd grade back in 1984 when me and all my friends went $2 Tuesdays nights at the local theatre in Mississippi to see this. I was in a break dance group called the Camalot Kids. We would rehearse our moves all week and then we would go to the dance at the Auditiorium on Friday nights and battle just like they did. But it was all about having fun and talking to girls. Not about all the BS that they kids are into now. THE GREATIES 80's. You had to be there.

  • hip hop aint shit compared to what they had back then....this is all poetry....

  • this is a hip-hop jam you can break dance too.

  • This is a classic. Like rykby, i was born in the early 90's but i heard this genre on scarface and i have to say i'm hooked xD.

  • Great, awesome, thanks 4 postin'

    of course 5star-rating

  • A 5-Star melody,i love the rap from 80's and i am borned in 95..i played GTA:Vice City and heard all these beauties..i love the 80's,how much i dare to live there :D

  • yea those were the good ol days when rap music was against, dope, pimps, shootin, and killing. now days every one just, keepin it real. you have to have a rap-sheet in order to get a rap-contract these days. stay outa trouble kid, Thx....

  • @RykBy You really wouldn't be dissapointed...we veterans certainly think it was the best time of our lives!

  • F@@cking awesome!!!

  • 'Beat Street' is definitely one of the finest by Grandmaster Flash. The lyrics are just soaring with thought-provoking questions about our society (and humanity itself). To me, it's moments like this that reinforces the lasting appeal and relevance of Hip-Hop. The 80s may be long gone but the commentary on war & poverty is much alive and (unfortunately) flourishing. Maybe it's cleverly crafted music like this, with real heart and passion, that can bring people together united as one. A+!

  • To follow-up, I would also like to add that this song is pure poetry from start to finish and deeply philosophical. Whether a fan of hip-hop or not, I think Grandmaster Flash is not needed to be an acuired taste: they are a special flavor guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of the avid/focused music listener. Chuck D (of Public Enemy) noted Grandmaster Flash as a significant influence, and that is clearly visible here (he would eventually take the street commentary to a grittier level).

  • Yea rap need to get real again. not enough rappers talkin about issues in life, to much bling, rims, dope, guns, gettin high, clubin music. Hip-hop sold out to section 8, their goes the neighborhood:/

  • Very true. Nice way to put it.

  • DJ Vicious Lee IS THE DJ NOT GRAND MASTER FLASH ON THIS

  • What album is this from? Like the original release back in the 80's?

  • i think its from the beat-street sound-track.

  • @danfoulk Grand master flash "the Message" 

  • Dude, the entire song is one of the best ever PERIOD!

  • this rap got a massave message, they had the guts to tell it like it is... "THERES GOLD IN THE STREETS AND DIAMONDS ON THEY FEET, AND THE CHILDREN IN AFRICA DONT EVEN EAT"?.. FLIES ON THEY FACES THEY LIVIN LIKE MICE AND THE HOUSES EVEN MAKE THE GEATO LOOK NICE, WATER TASTE FUNNY ITS FOR EVER TO SUNNY AND THEY WORK ALL MONTH AND DONT MAKE NO MONEY"!!! thats a cold ass verse in the rap world.. big ups {G.M. FLASH}

  • 2nd verse is the best in hip hop

  • Dam I fully agree!! thats the verse that made me post this rap, and its still true today. wow! I dont think a lot of hip-hopers know how deep that verse is. be cool...

  • i met melle mel in the gym a couple months ago and told him basically the same thing(!)

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