Rolling Stone: And the Greatest Hip-Hop Song of All Time Is…

Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five’s 1982 hit “The Message” is the number 1 song on Rolling Stone‘s first-ever list of “The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time.” (LIST: Listen to TIME’s Top 10 Songs of 2012 Playlist) The magazine argues that “The Message” earned the top honors because it was “the first song to tell, with hip-hop’s rhythmic and vocal force, the truth about modern inner-city life in America” including “drugs, prostitution, prison and the grim promis...

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