{"id":477755,"date":"2022-07-25T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/grandmaster-flash-the-furious-fives-scorpio-explains-why-they-initially-hated-the-message\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T21:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:05:40","slug":"grandmaster-flash-the-furious-fives-scorpio-explains-why-they-initially-hated-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/grandmaster-flash-the-furious-fives-scorpio-explains-why-they-initially-hated-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"#Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious Five&#039;s Scorpio Explains Why They Initially Hated &#039;The Message\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a410c9aa604b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a410c9aa604b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/grandmaster-flash-the-furious-fives-scorpio-explains-why-they-initially-hated-the-message\/#%E2%80%9CGrandmaster_Flash_The_Furious_Fives_Scorpio_Explains_Why_They_Initially_Hated_The_Message%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious Five&#039;s Scorpio Explains Why They Initially Hated &#039;The Message\u2019&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGrandmaster_Flash_The_Furious_Fives_Scorpio_Explains_Why_They_Initially_Hated_The_Message%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious Five&#039;s Scorpio Explains Why They Initially Hated &#039;The Message\u2019&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/07\/Scorpio-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious Five's Scorpio Explains Why They Initially Hated 'The Message\u2019\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<span class=\"location\">Exclusive \u2013 <\/span> Eddie Morris \u2014 better known as Hip Hop pioneer Scorpio of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five \u2013 was only 18 years old when they released \u201cThe Message\u201d in July 1982. Arguably one of the most important Hip Hop tracks in music history, \u201cThe Message\u201d is often considered the first socio-political rap song, with its lyrics depicting a grim portrait of their New York City environment.<\/p>\n<p>As kids, the group didn\u2019t necessarily see Sylvia Robinson\u2019s vision for the song, but the Sugar Hill Records founder\/CEO trusted her instincts. Written in 1980 by\u00a0Duke Bootee and Melle Mel as a response to the 1980 New York City transit strike, the track paints a vivid portrait of the violence and poverty surrounding them with lines such as, \u201cBroken glass everywhere\/People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don\u2019t care\/I can\u2019t take the smell, can\u2019t take the noise\/Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grandmaster Flash &amp; The Furious Five - The Message (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYMkEMCHtJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the 40th anniversary of \u201cThe Message,\u201d Scorpio concluded the song essentially signaled the end of their youth. Furthermore, the scenes they were describing in the song were scenes they encountered regularly growing up in The Bronx, making it even more real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the important things about that song is it just have us trusting in things that we didn\u2019t trust in sometimes,\u201d he told <em>HipHopDX<\/em>\u00a0in a recent interview.<em> \u201c<\/em>Like with music, you gotta get out of your own ego. Because realistically, we hated that song. We couldn\u2019t stand that song. We didn\u2019t think that it had no reality to us, but thank God Ms. Robinson had the better vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThinking, because we was coming from the Bronx, that it\u2019ll match better versus putting it with somebody else, or whatever the case may be. So just trusting in other people was the biggest lesson. We don\u2019t have all of the answers. 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Because we was like the biggest ghetto superstars before records. And everything that got us to that point was real braggadocious, talking about girls, parties and this and that. And to hear a record like that with that slower tempo and everything, maybe it was just too real for us, like, \u2018Yo, y\u2019all got to grow up now.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we still wanted to be kids and sing about partying, those type songs versus being in reality. We like, \u2018Oh wait, broken glass everywhere? Hey, you talking about where we live.\u2019 Hey, hey, we know rats in the front room, roaches in the back. We know that. We live that. Maybe it was something that hit too hard for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"O0vdnov0Tn94CpE9TlyRtw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/136516674\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'O0vdnov0Tn94CpE9TlyRtw',sig:'dM69WIBdNYovKobHfVJpazqclm2i0EE8mYhjIGNefEk=',w:'594px',h:'532px',items:'136516674',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the success of \u201cThe Message\u201d \u2014 the first Hip Hop song chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry \u2014 Scorpio and the rest of the group found themselves in Hollywood, a first for the East Coast natives. Walking into the Hyatt Hotel on Sunset Blvd., they had a chance encounter with famed boxer Muhammad Ali, and Scorpio was in no way prepared for what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked at us and he pointed his finger, \u2018Hey, y\u2019all some bad boys. I know who y\u2019all are,&#8217;\u201d he recalled. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t fucking believe it. Sugar Ray Leonard used to bring his son to come see us. Yo, things was just changing crazy. People that we thought that we was nowhere on their radar, all of a sudden all of these people was recognizing us \u2014 from Richard Prior to Eddie Murphy. They was actually knowing who we was. We definitely felt like real superstars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As impactful as \u201cThe Message\u201d was in the 1980s, Scorpio believes it\u2019s even more profound today \u2014 which isn\u2019t exactly a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s even more relevant now,\u201d he said. \u201cBack then,\u00a0even though we were singing it and it sound cute, we didn\u2019t understand it as much. When I say we didn\u2019t understand, obviously we know what the words mean, but we was so on us just being entertainers that we wasn\u2019t sitting there connected to all of the turmoil in all of the cities and things like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we older, you looking at CNN, you could turn the music down and play that song. And from the George Floyd to anything, it\u2019ll be a perfect backdrop soundtrack for any and everything that\u2019s going on, from here to Ukraine to any place you could play that song. And if you\u2019re not listening to the sound on TV, it fits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grandmaster Flash &amp; the Furious Five hasn\u2019t been a group for a long time. Not only is Kidd Creole currently in prison for the 2017 killing of a homeless man, differences between some of the members in the group proved to be too much to heal. Melle Mel and Scorpio, however, still tour together. Anyone interested in inquiry about bookings can head here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kyle Eustice\"><br \/>\nby Kyle Eustice\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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