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[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round Two

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Defeated opponents: Thompson Twins

Formed in: 1978

Genres: Hip hop

Lineup: Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) – turntables, drum programming, Flashformer transform DJ device, background vocals

The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover Jr.) – lead and background vocals, writer and arranger

Keef Cowboy (Keith Wiggins) – lead and background vocals, writer and arranger

Grandmaster Melle Mel (Melvin Glover) – lead and background vocals, writer and arranger

Scorpio (Eddie Morris) – lead and background vocals, writer and arranger

Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) – lead and background vocals, writer and arranger

Albums from the 80s:

The Message (1982)

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five (1983)

Greatest Messages (1984)

On the Strength (1988)

Propaganda:

The Rolling Stones

Defeated opponents: Misfits

Formed in: 1962

Genres: Rock, pop, blues

Lineup: Mick Jagger – lead vocals, electric piano, percussion, guitar

Keith Richards – lead guitar, vocals

Bill Wyman – bass guitar, string synthesizer

Charlie Watts – drums

Ronnie Wood – electric guitar, pedal steel, backing vocals

Albums from the 80s:

Emotional Rescue (1980)

Sucking in the Seventies (1981)

Tattoo You (1981)

Still Life (1982)

Undercover (1983)

Rewind (1971-1984) (1984)

Dirty Work (1986)

Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)

Steel Wheels (1989)

Propaganda: 

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[o-the-mts]

2023 Year in Review: Favorite Songs

2023 was a great year for music, and I had trouble narrowing down a list of my top 25 favorite songs. In fact, I tried to pare down my Best of 2023 playlist by limiting each artist to a maximum of 2 songs each, but the playlist still has 100 songs. You can listen to them all on Tidal or Spotify below!  I’ve also included links to my Song of the Week posts for 2023 and all of my favorite songs by…

[oldschoolhiphoplust]

Know Your Hip-Hop Pioneers: Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

The up-tempo style of Grandmaster Flash and the vocal cadence of Keef Cowboy, Melle Mel, Kidd Creole, Scorpio, and Rahiem was a severe force during hip-hop’s emerging stage in the late 70s. Favored for their South Bronx park jams and enticing live performances, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five gratified crowds with their musical charm. Their 1982 classic “The Message” is one of hip-hop’s most towering songs and brought global eminence to the outlook of hip-hop culture.

By Ime Ekpo

*Originally published in 2016

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 6 September

Soothsayers - We Are Many

Mr. Confuse - Spinning Around

Kid Creole & The Cococnuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby (Andy Kidd Mutant Disco Edit)

Beat Bronco Organ Trio Feat. Chip Wickham - Squirtly

J-Felix Feat. Sol Goodman - Future

Jon Kennedy - Back From The Beyond

Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - I Put a Spell On You

Da Lata - Free

Ajax Tow - Hawai

Allysha Joy - Light It Again

Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes - Pueblo

Damu The Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic - Moving Maps

Bella Boo - In Love

Belladonna - Ebatule

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[lboogie1906]

Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961, in The Bronx) known by his stage name Grandmaster Melle Mel (simply Melle Mel), is a rapper who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

He may have been the first rapper to call himself MC. Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams), and Cowboy (Keith Wiggins). While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term hip-hop, by scat singing the words “hip/hop/hip/hop” in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five began recording for Enjoy Records and released “Superrappin’”. They moved on to Sugar Hill Records and were popular on the R&B charts with party songs like “Freedom” and “The Birthday Party”. They released numerous singles, gaining a gold disc for “Freedom”, and touring. He began to turn to the more socially-aware subject matter.

The song “The Message” became an instant classic and one of the first examples of conscious hip-hop by exploring personal and social themes. He recorded a rap over session musician Duke Bootee’s instrumental track “The Jungle”. Some of his lyrics on “The Message” were taken from “Superrappin’”. Other than Melle Mel, no members of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five appear on the record. Bootee contributed vocals.

He became known as Grandmaster Melle Mel and the leader of the Furious Five. The group went on to produce the anti-drug song “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)”.

He gained greater fame and success after appearing in the movie Beat Street. He performed a memorable rap on Chaka Khan’s smash hit song “I Feel for You”, which introduced hip hop to a wider and more mainstream R&B audience. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five had further hits with “Step Off”, “Pump Me Up”, “King of the Streets”, “Jesse”, and “Vice”.

He released his first-ever solo album, Muscles. The first single and music video was “M3 – The New Message”. Melle Mel and The Furious Five (joined by DJ Grandmaster Flash) became the first rap group ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[almahiphop]

Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five (19/04/1994)

Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five es un álbum recopilatorio de 1994 lanzado por el sello discográfico Rhino Entertainment en los EE. UU. Contiene pistas grabadas por las diversas versiones de Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five y Grandmaster Melle Mel. No se incluyen pistas de los tres álbumes de Grandmaster Flash en Elektra Records ni nada del álbum de regreso de 1988 On the Strength.

El folleto desplegable contiene un ensayo de Shannita Williams, editora de rap de la revista Hits. Curiosamente, también presenta dos fotos no relacionadas de la formación posterior de Grandmaster Flash.

Además, los créditos indican que todas las pistas se tomaron de los sencillos originales de 12" de Sugar Hill Records. Estos no están presentes en los futuros álbumes recopilatorios Adventures on the Wheels of Steel (1999) o Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel and the Furious Five: The Definitive Groove Collection (2006) No se proporciona ninguna explicación al respecto.

Historia Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

Grandmaster Flash es un DJ y productor musical estadounidense, nacido el 1 de enero de 1958 en Barbados. Es conocido por ser uno de los pioneros del hip hop y por sus innovaciones en el arte del turntablism. Fue miembro de The Furious Five, con quienes logró éxitos como "The Message" y "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)". Melle Mel es un rapero y compositor estadounidense, nacido el 15 de mayo de 1961 en Nueva York. Fue miembro fundador de The Furious Five y es considerado uno de los pioneros del rap y el hip hop. Es conocido por su estilo de rap crudo y directo, y por sus letras sociales y políticamente comprometidas. The Furious Five fue un grupo de rap originario de Nueva York, fundado en 1978. Estuvo compuesto por:

Joseph Saddler "Grandmaster Flash"

Melvin Glover "Melle Mel"

Robert Keith Wiggins "Keef Cowboy" (fallecido)

Nathaniel Glover Jr. "The Kidd Creole"

Eddie Morris "Mr. Ness/Scorpio"    

Guy Todd Williams "Rahiem"

Fueron pioneros en la creación del hip hop como género musical y sus letras se centraron en temas sociales y políticos. Se separaron en 1983, pero han tenido varias reuniones y colaboraciones a lo largo de los años.

[mikijamcf]

Happy Birthday to the Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

[twixnmix]

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 photographed by Janette Beckman, 1987.

Janette Beckman: 

When I first got to New York, Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message” had just come out. I was living on the Lower East Side and there were ‘roaches in the back, junkies in the alley with a baseball bat!’ The song had that strong resonance. Trains covered in graffiti, music pumping out car windows. It was all around you, and I was so into it! I took this photograph for the cover of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s album Gold. They wanted to shoot in a Rolls Royce showroom. We had a crate of Moët and two bikini-clad models.

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@WorldWrap @WORLDWRAPMODELS @SCURRYLIFEDJs @SCURRYLIFEDVD @SCURRYPROMO @7EVENefx @SADADAY

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(via Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (Official Video) - YouTube)

[dailyrapfacts]

The Kidd Creole, rap pioneer, sentenced to 16 years in prison

The Kidd Creole, rap pioneer, sentenced to 16 years in prison

In a tragic turn of events, rap veteran and founding memebr of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was sentenced to 16 years behind bars for stabbing a homeless man named John Jolly. He claimed he thought the man was making an unwanted sexual advance and stabbed him with a steak knife. Born Nathanial Glover, he was part of the first generation of rappers, long before rap was…

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 4 September

Soothsayers - We Are Many

Mr. Confuse - Spinning Around

Kid Creole & The Cococnuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby (Andy Kidd Mutant Disco Edit)

Beat Bronco Organ Trio Feat. Chip Wickham - Squirtly

J-Felix Feat. Sol Goodman - Future

Jon Kennedy - Back From The Beyond

Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - I Put a Spell On You

Da Lata - Free

Ajax Tow - Hawai

Allysha Joy - Light It Again

Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes - Pueblo

Damu The Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic - Moving Maps

Bella Boo - In Love

Belladonna - Ebatule

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)