>34 years
>still no-one's made a better rap song than The Message yet
youtube.com
34 years
Leo Rivera
James Flores
what is New York State of Mind?
Nicholas Myers
You mean Empire State of Mind?
Christian Ross
Still one of the best, but I wouldn't say THE best.
Luis Adams
Corny lookin niggas
Connor Morales
Still looking cooler than most niggas these days
Isaac Sullivan
No, the OP asked for a rap song
Julian Torres
Listen to their Stevie Wonder tribute song, they look exactly like how they sound
Aaron Lewis
I was asking if that's what he meant you fucking retarded imbecile.
Robert Brown
>doesn't know new york state of mind
>calls somebody a fucking retarded imbecile
Elijah Davis
Billy Joel is not a rapper.
Levi Baker
youtube.com
take notes whitey
James Myers
Nas sucks. I'll take Beastie Boys any day over that shit.
Jordan Wilson
>still no-one's made a better rap song than The Message yet
why lie?
Benjamin Rivera
>What is Mind Playing Tricks on Me?
Christian Walker
honestly hip hop/rap was never good.
Nicholas Butler
Fuck GM Flash
villagevoice.com
>Almost unfathomable in our era of corporate-controlled radio playlists and Balkanized nightlife scenes, the track, underpinned by McGuire's minimalist-funk bassline, made Liquid Liquid favorites on black radio stations like WBLS, and got them regular gigs at discos like Paradise Garage and Danceteria. But within months of Optimo's release, WBLS and other stations began playing a new, almost identical track called "White Lines (Don't Do It)," released by Bronx-based Sugar Hill Records. Credited to Melle Mel + Grandmaster (allegedly a ploy to trick record buyers into thinking it was a new Grandmaster Flash release), the record didn't technically sample "Cavern," instead featuring the Sugar Hill house band replaying it note-for-note, adding only Mel's verses and the "Get higher, baby" bridge (while also turning Principato's original "slip in and out of phenomena" vocal hook into the now-iconic hip-hop phrase "something like a phenomenon").
>Bahlman sued Sugar Hill as "White Lines," whose writing credit listed only Melle Mel and Sugar Hill co-owner Sylvia Robinson, became a huge hit. Though he eventually won a lengthy court case and set an early precedent in the still poorly defined realm of sampling law, the results were disastrous for all involved. Sugar Hill declared bankruptcy rather than pay the ordered $600,000 settlement; faced with enormous legal costs and disillusioned with the music business, Bahlman folded 99 Records. McGuire left Liquid Liquid to pursue an art career, and the rest of the group disbanded after recording another 12-inch, Dig We Must, as a trio.
Carter Miller
AMEN
Charles Cox
this is so confusing what is your point?
Asher Nguyen
Flash wasn't even on White Lines, it's Melle Mel
Flash had left by that point
Caleb Jenkins
test
Daniel Lewis
White Lines > Cavern tbhwymate