Part of the pioneering group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Melle Mel co-wrote another cornerstone of the genre: "The Message." Today he considers the song "the most important hip-hop record ever made" – but at the time of its release, it was hardly a hit. "Nobody really believed in the record," Melle Mel said. "It put our group and hip-hop music on the level I thought it should be on: with all the other great genres," Melle Mel said. "You can't stop what can't be stopped and you can't kill what can't be killed," Master Gee said with a grin.

Source: Daily Nation February 01, 2019 11:15 UTC