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Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five is a 1994 CD compilation album released on the Rhino Entertainment record label in the US. It consists of tracks recorded by the various versions of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and Grandmaster Melle Mel.
Grandmaster Flash and his new "Furious Five" had a few hits with their three albums that made it to the top fifty of Billboard ' s R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, whereas Melle Mel and his group fared better. Grandmaster Melle Mel's most notable hit was "Beat Street Breakdown", which peaked at #8 in the R&B chart.
The record was falsely credited to "Grandmaster + Melle Mel" by Sugar Hill Records, [2] in order to fool the public into thinking Grandmaster Flash had participated on the record. Mel gained greater fame and success after appearing in the movie Beat Street , with a song based on the movie's title.
Grandmaster Flash, Kidd Creole, and Rahiem left Sugar Hill, signed with Elektra Records, and continued on as simply "Grandmaster Flash", while Melle Mel and the others continued on as "Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five". Grandmaster Flash was also interviewed in the 1986 cult documentary Big Fun in the Big Town. [23]
Message from Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five. Released: April 19, 1994; Label: Rhino Records — — — — 1996 The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five: More of the Best. Released: July 1, 1996; Label: Rhino Records — — — — 1997 The Greatest Mixes. Released: 1997 ...
Grandmaster Flash is in awe of how hip-hop went from a genre he and his friends pioneered by walking around with boom boxes to a Grammy-winning genre leading the entire music industry.
In 2007, the 25th anniversary of "The Message", Melle Mel changed the spelling of his first name to Mele Mel and released "M3 - The New Message" as the first single to his first ever solo album, Muscles. 2007 was also the year that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five became the first hip-hop act ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll ...
Flash shared an encouraging video message on the mix-ups, saying, "It's your boy DJ Grandmaster Flash. And I just wanna say to all the grandmothers and grandfathers that's been tagging me, by ...