Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five -Beat Street (1984)

Soundtrack of the 1985 with the same title . Possibly the best rapper of all time ( i would add Rakim too ).Some lyrics excerpts of the song:
A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say Man destroys Man!
Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose
The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire
The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble
The game that left the whole world in shambles
The cheats, the lies, the alibis
And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies
Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh?
The president just forgot about Earth
Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions
The cost of weapons ran into zillions
Theres gold in the street, and diamonds under feet
And the children in Africa dont even eat
Flies on their faces, theyre living like mice
And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh!
The water tastes funny, its forever too sunny
And they work all month and dont make no money
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
And people shout out in the darkest hour
Of sights unseen and voices unheard
And finally the bomb gets the last word

Category:

Music

Tags:

• GMM
• beat
• street

[locyka19]

this group is a legend.Period.They created a whole era.respect for pioneers.

[chicar46]

Great Great Great ... There are no more such Great Rapppers nowadays

[soundquality]

@smokeizfire And sadly, still relevant.

[smokeizfire]

The time still hasn't caught up to Melle Mel... The audience didn't realize what they were hearing, nor witnessing... History!

[SLINGSHOTandMOLOTOWS]

real hiphop, this shit is fly

[SnIpEr753GRAFF]

si el arte es un crimen que dios me perdone gran frase de esta gran pelicula

RESPECT FOR SPAIN!

[baccy81]

I hate rap, but this is damn good indeed.

Fuck off all the gangsta pufters of nowadays driving aston martins and covered with gold and muscles. Just annoying.

[Whi5t1eR]

respect...

[gtownjuli]

Hey Tomtom. Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, lief das Lied auch auf deiner letzten Party in unserem Elternhaus, wo Clint aufgelegt hat. Das waren noch Zeiten! :-)

[surfer53]

Is that guy at the beginning really rapping, or is it Melle Mel who shows up later on? Sounds like Mel..but that ain't him at the beginning.

[Troublesome2008]

Should I die on the train tracks,

like Ramo in Beat Street.

People at my funeral frontin' like they miss me...