The chorus of K Michelle's 2014 song Going Under also samples this songĭave Gahan raps a verse of the song during every live performance of Barrel of a Gun as part of Depeche Mode's Global Spirit Tour. The chorus is referenced in the hip-hop musical Hamilton by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison as "Such a blunder, sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder." 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.Ī Swedish translation/adaption of the song, "Budskapet", was released by Timbuktu in May 2013, following the riots in Husby and other suburbs of Stockholm. In 2010, Melle Mel and Scorpio appeared in an Australian commercial for the Kia Sportage in which they perform "The Message". 2007 was 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 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. In the 2006 computer animated film Happy Feet, Seymour raps the chorus line from this song to impress Miss Viola and other penguin students. Collins quipped that "Rap has influenced Genesis". During live shows, his version, usually using their signature Vari-Lite technology, became a highlight of the performance.
Collins thought "The laugh thing" was "Fantastic.what a great sound" and he experimented with it and incorporated it into the song. Padgham said that "At the time The Message was one of my favorite records". 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".
Canadian band Crystal Castles sampled parts of this song for their track titled "Magic Spells". American singer-songwriter Willy Mason also covered this song for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on February 25, 2005. The second and last verses of "The Message" are sung by Mushroomhead in the song "Born of Desire" off their XX album.
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This song was featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Scarface: The World is Yours and the sitcom television series Everybody Hates Chris. It was also sampled in 2011, by electronic musician Blank Banshee for his song "Teen Pregnancy".Ī line from the song was sampled in "Movement in Still life" by BT, the title track from his 1999 album Movement in Still Life. The rhythm track has been sampled in various hip hop songs, including Sinbad's 1990 comedy album "Brain Damaged", the remix for the 1993 song " Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube and the 1997 song " Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy. The line "A child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind" was taken from the early Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five track "Superrappin'" from 1979 on the Enjoy label. The song was first written in 1980 by Duke Bootee and Melle Mel, in response to the 1980 New York City transit strike, which is mentioned in the song's lyrics.
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." "The Message" took rap music from the house parties of its origin to the social platforms later developed by groups like Public Enemy and KRS-One. The song ends with a brief skit in which the band members are arrested for no clear reason. In the final verses it is described how a child born in the ghetto without perspective in life is lured away into crime, for which he is jailed until he commits suicide in his cell. The song's lyrics describe the stress of inner-city poverty. "The Message" was an early prominent hip hop song to provide a social commentary. It was released as a single by Sugar Hill Records on July 1, 1982, and was later featured on the group's debut studio album of the same name. " The Message" is a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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