<p>閃手大師與憤怒五人組（Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five）從1970年代後半開始，成為嘻哈音樂中不可忽視的超級要角，同時也可以算是此文化的開山鼻祖之一；而當時間慢慢進入到1980年代之後，他們總算在1982年推出了首張正式專輯《The Message》。其中的同名歌曲〈The Message〉蘊含大量的社會反思和批判，讓嘻哈與饒舌音樂逐漸步向一個新的時代。</p>


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<div class="draft-block draft--p left">饒舌這項表演藝術，因為<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatback_Band" target="_blank" class="draft--a">Fatback Band</a>的<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojQqAnlrW_M" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈King Tim III （Personality Jock）〉</a>、<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sugarhill_Gang" target="_blank" class="draft--a">Sugarhill Gang</a>的<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈Rapper's Delight〉</a>，以及<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtis_Blow" target="_blank" class="draft--a">克提斯．重擊（Kurtis Blow）</a>的<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtA7IHZgzw" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈Christmas Rappin'〉</a>與<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDUEilS5M4" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈The Breaks〉</a>等歌曲的冒出頭，逐漸成為了樂壇中一股新興的勢力。黑人音樂家自此有了另一種表現自我的全新方式，他們可以靠著大篇幅的歌詞、快速地饒唸、富含韻腳的文字趣味，在同一首歌曲裡訴說許多事物、抒發他們個人的觀點。</div>
<div class="draft-block draft--p left">在克提斯．重擊1979年的〈Christmas Rappin'〉與1980年的〈The Breaks〉獲得市場一片好評之後，身為嘻哈音樂始祖之一、<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Zulu_Nation" target="_blank" class="draft--a">Zulu Nation</a>（即Universal Zulu Nation的前身）之創辦人<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa" target="_blank" class="draft--a">非洲邦巴塔（Afrika Bambaataa）</a>在1981年11月聯合Jazzy Five，推出了一首名為<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtMu5RWOdM" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈Jazzy Sensation〉</a>的單曲，其中的陽春饒舌詞句和暢快的節奏感流動，再一次加深了饒舌在非裔美人社群之間的興盛。</div>
<div class="draft-block draft--p left">上述這些歌曲確實替饒舌鋪好了一條大路，不過若真要論起哪一首饒舌歌曲替嘻哈音樂文化武裝起了政治意識和批判思想，那麼當屬<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_and_the_Furious_Five" target="_blank" class="draft--a">閃手大師與憤怒五人組（Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five）</a>在1982年7月1日所發行的<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4" target="_blank" class="draft--a">〈The Message〉</a>。</div>
<div class="draft--imgNormal draft-block"><div><div style="height:700px" class="image-block-prerender" data-src="https://wpimg.vocus.cc/uploads/2017/01/3f9fddaa54ec4cbb8cb025e78a1d2574-700x700.jpg" data-width="700" data-height="700" data-isblurred="false" data-position="center"></div><figcaption class="imageCaption draft-block" style="cursor:text;display:block"></figcaption></div></div>
<div class="draft-block draft--p left">閃手大師與憤怒五人組合作發行的首張專輯《The Message》。&nbsp;</div>
<div class="draft-block draft--p left">在談論這首歌曲的內容之前，我們或許可以先來看看〈The Message〉所締造的豐功偉業：</div>

<p>1983年，對整個嘻哈音樂圈來說，也是一個極為重要的轉捩年份。這一年，嘻哈音樂從所謂的「Old School」時期進入到了「New School」時期，並於音樂、歌詞、穿著上，皆發生了重大的轉變。</p>


嘻哈樂史 Vol 15：開啟嘻哈New School時期的三位先鋒人物

饒舌這項表演藝術，因為Fatback Band的〈King Tim III （Personality Jock）〉、Sugarhill Gang的〈Rapper's Delight〉，以及克提斯．重擊（Kurtis Blow）的〈Christmas Rappin'〉與〈The Breaks〉等歌曲的冒出頭，逐漸成為了樂壇中一股新興的勢力。黑人音樂家自此有了另一種表現自我的全新方式，他們可以靠著大篇幅的歌詞、快速地饒唸、富含韻腳的文字趣味，在同一首歌曲裡訴說許多事物、抒發他們個人的觀點。

在克提斯．重擊1979年的〈Christmas Rappin'〉與1980年的〈The Breaks〉獲得市場一片好評之後，身為嘻哈音樂始祖之一、Zulu Nation（即Universal Zulu Nation的前身）之創辦人非洲邦巴塔（Afrika Bambaataa）在1981年11月聯合Jazzy Five，推出了一首名為〈Jazzy Sensation〉的單曲，其中的陽春饒舌詞句和暢快的節奏感流動，再一次加深了饒舌在非裔美人社群之間的興盛。

上述這些歌曲確實替饒舌鋪好了一條大路，不過若真要論起哪一首饒舌歌曲替嘻哈音樂文化武裝起了政治意識和批判思想，那麼當屬閃手大師與憤怒五人組（Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five）在1982年7月1日所發行的〈The Message〉。

閃手大師與憤怒五人組合作發行的首張專輯《The Message》。 

在談論這首歌曲的內容之前，我們或許可以先來看看〈The Message〉所締造的豐功偉業：

<p>有了全新的音樂目標，加上具有遠見的經紀人羅素賽門斯，克提斯．重擊的事業在1979年底即將一飛衝天，而他也注定將因為這些元素名留青史。以現在的眼光回頭審視，克提斯．重擊所發行的〈Christmas Rappin’〉與〈The Breaks〉，可以說是真正把饒舌散播到全紐約、全美國，以至於全世界。</p>


嘻哈樂史 Vol 13：暢銷金曲〈The Breaks〉，揭開嘻哈音樂的新紀元

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Official video for "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five Ft Melle Mel

Download The Message on iTunes - http://hyperurl.co/sgur7n
Stream The Message on Spotify - http://hyperurl.co/92hx5f
Buy The Message on Amazon - http://hyperurl.co/d1jnmy

Lyrics:

It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess, I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
Don't push me
cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying
not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Standing on the front stoop, hangin out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
A crazy lady, livin in a bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
Said, she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
Was circon princess, seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got Social Security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
Don't push me
cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying
not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers t.v.
Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
"All my children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors, they ring my phone
And scare my wife, when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon king kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane!
Don't push me
cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying
not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
My son said, daddy, I don't wanna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think, I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed the arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after the dark
Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jar
Hear them say you want some more, livin on a seesaw
Don't push me
cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying
not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
A child is born, with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too
Cause only God knows, what you go through
You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The place, that you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n void
Walking 'round like you're pretty boy floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
Got send up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
Being used and abused and served like hell
Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young



#GrandmasterFlashFuriousFive #MelleMel #TheMessage

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

Official audio for King Tim III (Personality Jock) by The Fatback Band, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the official Ace channel for more classics, lost gems, playlists, and more: http://www.youtube.com/AceRecordsBroadcast http://acerecords.co.uk/xii

The Fatback Band - King Tim III (Personality Jock) (Official Audio)

Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rapping
(live on TOTP jan'80)

Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rapping (live on TOTP jan'80)

"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" the debut hit single by rapper Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. It appears on Combs' debut album No Way Out and it was released as the first single in 1997.

Combs was already a successful songwriter, producer and record label owner (Bad Boy Records) before he released his debut album as a performer. His first U.S. chart single, "No Time", was a top-twenty hit for Lil' Kim on which Puff Daddy was credited as a featured vocalist. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" was the debut chart appearance for Harlem-based rapper Mase.

The song combines elements of several previous singles, the most obvious being a slowed-down rhythm track sampled from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message". The track's chorus is an interpolation of "Break My Stride", a top-five single by Matthew Wilder from 1983.

"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number thirty-two in early 1997 and eventually spent six weeks at number one. It was the beginning of Combs' and Bad Boy Records' chart domination during the year — the Combs-produced "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. would follow this song at number one, and the B.I.G. tribute song "I'll Be Missing You" spent eleven weeks at number one during the summer, only to be followed by another B.I.G. song, "Mo Money Mo Problems" and then the Combs-produced "Honey" by Mariah Carey. Pop singer Christina Aguilera used the sample of the song on the single Can't Hold Us Down featuring Lil' Kim.

Puff Daddy ft Mase - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (Explicit)

IceCube - Check Yo Self

The title says it all, enjoy the music. :)

The Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight ( HQ, Full Version )

Clap your hands everybody
If you got what it takes
'Cause I'm Kurtis Blow and I want you to know
That these are the breaks

Breaks on a bus brakes on a car
Breaks to make you a superstar
Breaks to win and breaks to lose
But these here breaks will rock your shoes
And these are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up!

If your woman steps out with another man
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
And she runs off with him to Japan
And the IRS says they want to chat
And you can't explain why you claimed your cat
And Ma Bell sends you a whopping bill
With eighteen phone calls to Brazil
And you borrowed money from the mob
And yesterday you lost your job
Well, these are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up

Throw your hands up in the sky
And wave 'em 'round from side to side
And if you deserve a break tonight
Somebody say alright! (All right)
Say ho-oo! (Ho-oo!)
And you don't stop
Keep on, somebody scream!( Owwwww!)
Break down!

Breaks on a stage, breaks on a screen
Breaks to make your wallet lean
Breaks run cold and breaks run hot
Some folks got 'em and some have not
But these are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up!
Break down!

To the girl in brown, stop messing around
(Break it up, break it up)
To the guy in blue, whatcha gonna do?
(Break it up, break it up)
To the girl in green, don't be so mean
(Break it up, break it up)
And the guy in red, say what I said
(Break it up, break it up)
Break down!

Brakes on a plane, brakes on a train
Breaks to make you go insane
Breaks in love, breaks in war
But we got the breaks to get you on the floor
And these are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up!
Break down! Yo!

Just do it, just do it, just do it, do it, do it!
Just do it, just do it, just do it, do it, do it!
Just do it, just do it, just do it, do it, do it!
Just do it, just do it, just do it, do it, do it!

You say last week you met the perfect guy
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
And he promised you the stars in the sky
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
He said his Cadilac was gold
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
But he didn't say it was ten years old
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
He took you out to the Red Coach grill
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
But he forgot the cash and you paid the bill
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
And he told you the story of his life
(That's the breaks, that's the breaks)
But he forgot the part about...his wife!
(That's the breaks, Huh! Huh! that's the breaks)
Well, these are the breaks!
Break it up, break it up, break it up!
Break down!

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