Grand Master Melle Mel & the furious Five - Beat Street live

[lordoid]

I think you have to consider that this music was something new for the audience. So most of them are rather listening than going nuts. + they are white ;)

[mymetalbeatbox]

oh that guitar riff...LOVETT

[DIGITALSCREAMS]

Come on you whites...shake your booty

[SuperSaibotShow]

god damn that electric guitar so evil all over the beat.

[FeNsTa]

worst crowd ever.... "huh? what's this?" etc...

[tjinta]

What a crowd. lol

[zer0nable]

@tjinta

dead crowd in europe , i think this was in germany :D

[wcbombers21]

Damn I new they would make it, I just never new they would perform on the sun..(it's bright up in that room) JA!!

[360grafics]

@mattervalley was this on TV? Who filmed this Stuff? was this a Tour? Its Munich Germany for sure.

[nemo40001]

New generations have to know who were the true rappers

[HONEYBCRISSY]

wow at first I was like what the fuck is andre 3000 doing? then I put on my glasses... lmao....

[shangrila68]

Seamless rapping, & the drummer & guitarist are sooo tight. Quality on every level

[prone69]

straight up real hip hop

[Jgeneraledger23]

Was this in Europe or something? So many white people in the audience ;)

[mattervalley]

@Jgeneraledger23 The "Alabama" is a german club-locality im Munich - very known in the 80's. I don't know if its still exists.

[Jgeneraledger23]

@mattervalley That's interesting. I figured it wasn't in the States, since everybody in the audience is looking at them like they are from outer space! hahaha

[dimi2307]

......ja



[zanui]

WOWWWWWW, this just amazinggggggg!! 5*bring me back!!!!

[charlietow]

look all them white folk in the crowd not even movin!!!

[WHIZBOY1]

THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES IT ALL STARTED......RECOGNIZE YOU UNEDUCATED RAP FANS...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLLO.­....FUNNY SHIT IS A LOT OF THE YOUNG GENERATION WILL NOT LISTEN TO THE SHIT THAT STARTED IT ALL....LOLOLOLOLOLO.....AND IF THEY DO LISTEN TO IT THEY WILL COMMENT THAT ITS WACK OR CORNY.....LITTLE DO THEY KNOW ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT WHO YOU SHOT WHAT CAR YOU DRIVE HOW MANY CHICKS YOU BEEN WITH IS CORNY......THE BEST SHIT I FEEL IS WHEN THE SONGS WERE ABOUT PARTYING HAVING A GOOD TIME...NO DRAMA..

[javlyz]

@WHIZBOY1 THATS RITE!!!

[penorpls]

Great music, too bad they're dressed like the village people...

[xraydelta1]

@penorpls I DON'T SEE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND THE RIDICULOUS SHIT KIDS TRY TO BE COOL WITH NOWADAYS. TELL ME, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE DIFFERENCE TO YOU? EXPLAIN TO ME HOW MUCH COOLER THE WAY YOU DRESS IS FROM THIS GUY. INCLUDE A VIDEO OF HOW YOU DRESS SO WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN JUDGEMENTAL COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR STYLE.

[javlyz]

@xraydelta1 the difference is that in this kind of rap it isn't about where you're from what you represent(gangster)... this is like WHIZBOY1 said... about being together and rocking it with each other, no race was involved in this! yea in any generation you want to rock the freshest clothes and shoes so there is no diff there... but in style of music and its representation is diff.

[gdub520]

reminds me of the words of a great foolosopher, rick james...COCAINE IS A HELLUVA DRUG lol

[jamari2160]

THE BRONX CREATED IT , THE BRONX CREATED RAP , THE BRONX CREATED BREAK DANCING , GIVE THE PROPER RESPECT TO THOSE WHO CREATED IT WHERE WOULD ALL THESE SO CALL MONEY HUNGRY RAPPERS BE WITH OUT THESE PIONEERS AND OTHER CREATORS ? THEY DESERVE TO BE IN THE RAP HALL OF FAME FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TOP THE WORLD.

[snotnosedlilkid]

fucking awesome!!!

[yakuzamadddogg]

Fuck LOL GAYNE fans!

[cacaorocks]

the audience is dead

[chezza55]

@cacaorocks

it's a shame. but this was the base of todays hip-hop

[bboyseA1]

que ropas...

[ODMASTA]

a national treasure......

[Alekari91]

Wow what a nice performance and very talented people, its to bad the friggin audience is DEAD!! Look at those people, they look lost.

[baghead83]

@Alekari91 they werent ready for this kind of freshness

[magnumpush]

In-Fucking-Credible!!! 

[9871MINI]

audience look just about excited as I am, rubbish ....

[TheTrakkOursoniss]

the drummer looks like little richard

[IgorSavtchenko]

Pure greatness.

[IgorSavtchenko]

Pure greatness.

[surfer53]

Maybe I'm just inundated with gangster rap, but I just can't get into these guys stylistically. It's like watching the Village People or at best any mainstream hard rock group. Fortunately, the music itself is great.

[blackfalconsungodzzz]

MAN! this shit is (((H O T))),.,WOW, way before jay-z & linkin park callabo,.this good ol' vintage.

thanks for posting

[1doublez]

I, Double-Z was proud to be the bassplayer of this band in 1985! This show was performed in Germany...NOT Alabama! I was with them for several tours!

[Tek1077]

This track sounds so much better with the live drums, and guitar! Not that im knocking the original!

[Poet1k]

top 20 hip-hop song of all time.. so ahead of its time, yet so underrated

[waters1993]

what an awful audience

[dexorcist]

i was thinking exactly the same.... doesnt do them justice

[SuperkingJJ]

Burn ghettos, solve the problem

[frostcuervo]

fenomenal

[chokewholeddotcom]

this is truly a great piece of hip hop history.

[imperialpod]

LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE!

Some of the greatest lyrics found ANYWHERE in modern music, no matter what the style.

[XULUPROPHET]

@chokewholeddotcom MELLE MEL LIVED IN MY BUILDING WHEN I WAS LIKE 13

[bluesfunk77]

god i loved this song (still do) so inspiring -Sums up everything real hip hop is supposed to be about - LOVING YOU LIFE rather than excepting what society wants for ghetto people which is death and despair.Classic.

[gb5k]

I "rapped' this whole track acapella in front of my entire summercamp when I was like 12!!!!!! big up tha jamz!!!!! They just don't write hip-hop (not rap) songs like this anymore!!!!!!!

[STEPASAUR]

I've followed HipHop closely for almost 30 years now and I still believe that 2nd verse ("newspaper burns in the sand' etc..) is the best rap ever written! prophetic, informed and an inspiration to a whole generation, big up Mel..

[hankseptember]

cant argue with that!...he is still spittin better lyrics than most rappers out now.

[jemiee]

this looks older than 1985?

[gibbo191]

is melle mel the same person as grand master flash???

[mookeychase0907]

No Flash is the DJ the group was Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5. they split in 1983 then Mel took Keith "Cowboy"(RIP) and Scorpio and added King Lou and "kamikaze" Clayton Savage and took on the Name Grandmaster. Flash took Raheem and Mels brother "Kid Creole" and added Lavon and one more member Dude One Way(?) Anyway thats how they both had the name Grandmaster. They got back then Mel dropped the Grandmaster from his name. My fav Group & first Rap group inducted into Rock&Roll hall of fame.

[hankseptember]

No...Flash and Melle both have the titles of 'Grandmasters'.

Both were also in the same group.

[1doublez]

The reason this is Melle Mel and the Furious Five is because Mel and Flash were fighting legally over the title"GrandMaster" This feud led to a breakup. Mel then started this live band in which I,Double-Z played keys and bass!The 1st Hip-Hop bassplayer,was a girl!Flash was NOT in this band!

[theoverlord1944]

thank you for posting a classic

[BrkCityFG9]

these kats today should take notes

[Richie7884]

That was fu**ing awsome

the crowd was asleep like they didn't get it

[rickskimusik]

That`s the stuff that Mele Mel should do again in 2009. Just my opinion

[KamenHanya]

thanks for this rare footage! IT's cool to see Melle Mel's furious five.