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"The Message" is a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It was released as a single by Sugar Hill Records on July 1, 1982 and was later featured on the group's first studio album, ''The Message''. "The Message" was the first prominent hip hop song to provide a lyrical social commentary. It took rap music from the house parties to the social platforms later developed by groups like Public Enemy, N.W.A, and Rage Against the Machine. Melle Mel said in an interview with NPR: "Our group, like Flash and the Furious Five, we didn't actually want to do the message because we was used to doing party raps and boasting how good we are and all that."〔Gross, Terry "The History of Hip-Hop.()"〕 The song was written and performed by Sugar Hill session musician Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher and Furious Five MC Melle Mel. == Uses in popular culture == The chorus verse was sampled in Sinbad's "Brain Damaged" for his 1990 comedy album of the same name. "The Message" was included as in-game radio music for the 2002 video game ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', and the 2006 video game ''Scarface: The World Is Yours'', an adaption of the 1983 film. It was also featured on DJ Hero 2.The signature synthesizer melody was also sampled and featured in multiple episodes of ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars''. For the MTV-produced compilation album ''Lit Riffs: The Soundtrack'' in 2004, the band Katsu supplied a stripped-down cover version of "The Message". The second and last verses of the song are sung by Mushroomhead in the song "Born of Desire" off their ''XX'' album. American singer-songwriter Willy Mason also covered this song for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on February 25, 2005. Canadian band Crystal Castles sampled parts of this song for their track titled "Magic Spells". Genesis drummer and lead singer Phil Collins, along with Grammy Award winning producer Hugh Padgham, described in the 2001 release ''The Genesis Songbook'' how "The Message" helped shape the hook of the band's 1983 hit single "Mama". Padgham said that "At the time ''The Message'' was one of my favorite records". Collins thought "The laugh thing" was "Fantastic...what a great sound" and he experimented with it and incorporated it into the song. During live shows, his version, usually using their signature Vari-Lite technology, became a highlight of the performance. Collins quipped that "Rap has influenced Genesis". In the 2006 computer animated film ''Happy Feet'', Seymour raps the chorus line from this song to impress Miss Viola and other penguin students. In 2007, the 25th anniversary of "The Message", Melle Mel changed the spelling of his first name to Mele Mel and released "M3 - The New Message" as the first single to his first ever solo album, ''Muscles''. 2007 is also the year that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first hip-hop act ever to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010, Melle Mel and Scorpio appeared in an Australian commercial for the Kia Sportage in which they perform "The Message". On November 30, 2011, Melle Mel, Scorpio, and Grandmaster Flash joined Common, Lupe Fiasco, and LL Cool J as they performed a tribute of this song at the 54th Grammy nominations. A Swedish translation/adaption of the song, "Budskapet", was released by Timbuktu in May 2013, following the riots in Husby and other suburbs of Stockholm.〔(Budskapet - Timbuktu ), YouTube.〕〔(Budskapet ), blog post by Timbuktu.〕〔(Timbuktu rappar om Husby ), ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'', May 26, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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