"The Message" is a classic song from 1982 by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five.This track went platinum in less than a month back when platinum was much harder to attain. It is the first Hip-Hop record ever to be added to the United States National Archive of Historic Recordings.

Later hip-hop would sample the beat such as artists like Ice Cube on "Check Yo Self" and Puff Daddy on "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down."

Rolling Stone ranked "The Message" #51 in its List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (published November 2004), making it the highest placing for any song released in the 1980s and the highest ranking hip-hop song on the list.

Download: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – The Message