At first, there was no message. Rap was all bluff and bluster. Party stuff, straight up. Hip hop, you don't stop. Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care. Somebody scream.

LOS ANGELES -- The 1982 hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time Wednesday, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine to ...

Duke Bootee, a name who OG Hip-Hop heads will recognize as one of the writer’s and rappers on Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s classic “The Message,” has passed away. He was 69. Rolling Stone ...

Duke Bootee, the pioneering rapper who co-wrote and appeared on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic “The Message” — Number One on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler, best known as Grandmaster Flash. Amidst the infancy of hip-hop culture, Grandmaster Flash ...

Grandmaster Flash helped invent hip hop, DJing, and scratching as we know it, and his group the Furious Five’s 1982 single “The Message” helped inspire a style of politically conscious rap music that ...

On this date in 1958, a man who will forever reform the stance of the turntable was born; Joseph Saddler best known as Grandmaster Flash. Amidst the infancy of hip-hop culture, Grandmaster Flash ...