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

Sugarhill Records · 37.3M views · 2015 · 6:00

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Why the open web links it

A landmark early hip-hop track that captures the social realities of 1980s urban life.

Linked by 156 independent sites, 18 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including vice.com, umd.edu, usc.edu, asahi.com, gatech.edu.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song).