- rap, hip hop
- 44 min
- 8 tracks
- Sugar Hill Records
The Message is the debut studio album by American hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, released on October 3, 1982, by Sugar Hill Records. It features the influential title track and hip-hop single "The Message".
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Grave, earnest, spare and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- A1She’s Fresh4:57
- A2It’s Nasty4:18
- A3Scorpio4:56
- A4It’s a Shame4:58
- B1Dreamin’5:46
- B2You Are4:50
- B3The Message7:12
- B4The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel7:07
8 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Sugar Hill Records
- Released
- 1982
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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