Beat Street couldn't have ended better than it did with a celebration featuring some of the most significant of the Hip Hop Scene to include Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five, the New York City Breakers, Rock Steady Crew and many others.
Melle Mel made this rap bad-ass though! There was no better choice than Grandmaster Melle Mel for this grand finale. He turned it out and gave a strong message (just when you thought "The Message" couldn't have been topped!)
Catch the subway and the scenery of the slums of the South Bronx at the start of the video below, and how many had to live in poverty in conditions that nobody should have to live like! And there are some who even live worse which Melle Mel talks about later.
Beat Street Breakdown was straight up one of the best all-time raps ever made. The scratchin was off the chain, and the beat was serious and vocal. Had a lot of meaning and heart.
Most modern day Raps are not a "message" any longer, trying to open others eyes - but instead - they just seem want to make everyone get vain and materialistic and sell out what they know is right, in order to supposedly have it all.
This rap said so much and spoke to the illest of ills in one rap. You don't ever see that happen anymore, a hundred modern day Raps don't seem to talk anything near what this ONE rap talked to!
Here are some of my favorite lyrics:
"...Beat Street is a lesson too because uh...ya can't let the streets beat you -ugh"
"..I know you'd paint a better place to live"
"I never knew art until I saw your face and there'll never be one to take your place, cause each and every time you touched the spray paint can, Michaelangelo's soul controls your hands"
"why'd you have to die so soon"
"whose gonna dream the impossible dreams, of the beautiful cities and the island streams, when your works of art dropped in to being all that the ghetto stopped you from seein"
"screamin out and say Ramo!"
"all you Hip Hops get on up and let's take it to the place where we belong!"
"say hooooo"
"the rise and fall of the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire...the ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble, the game that left the whole world in shambles"
"the cheats, the lies, the alibis, and the foolish attempts to conquer the skies...spending multibillions and maybe even trillions..."
"...and the children in Africa don't even eat...flies on their faces, they're livin like mice and their house even makes the ghetto look nice...their water tastes funny its forever too sunny and they work all month and don't make no money"
"minds are poisoned...souls are polluted...superiority complex is deep rooted"
"egomaniacs control the self righteous...nothing is sacred and nothing is pure, until the revelation of death is our cure.."
"to learn from the past and work for the future and don't be a slave to no computer...cause the children of man inherits the land and the future of the world is in you hands!"
"so just throw your hands in the air and wave em like you just don't care, and if you believe that you're the future scream on out and say Oh Yeah!"
Enjoy ya'all and take a stroll back on memory lane wit this one - Melle Mel and Beat Street Breakdown Ruh!
OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP DON'T STOP!
Melle Mel made this rap bad-ass though! There was no better choice than Grandmaster Melle Mel for this grand finale. He turned it out and gave a strong message (just when you thought "The Message" couldn't have been topped!)
Catch the subway and the scenery of the slums of the South Bronx at the start of the video below, and how many had to live in poverty in conditions that nobody should have to live like! And there are some who even live worse which Melle Mel talks about later.
Beat Street Breakdown was straight up one of the best all-time raps ever made. The scratchin was off the chain, and the beat was serious and vocal. Had a lot of meaning and heart.
Most modern day Raps are not a "message" any longer, trying to open others eyes - but instead - they just seem want to make everyone get vain and materialistic and sell out what they know is right, in order to supposedly have it all.
This rap said so much and spoke to the illest of ills in one rap. You don't ever see that happen anymore, a hundred modern day Raps don't seem to talk anything near what this ONE rap talked to!
Here are some of my favorite lyrics:
"...Beat Street is a lesson too because uh...ya can't let the streets beat you -ugh"
"..I know you'd paint a better place to live"
"I never knew art until I saw your face and there'll never be one to take your place, cause each and every time you touched the spray paint can, Michaelangelo's soul controls your hands"
"why'd you have to die so soon"
"whose gonna dream the impossible dreams, of the beautiful cities and the island streams, when your works of art dropped in to being all that the ghetto stopped you from seein"
"screamin out and say Ramo!"
"all you Hip Hops get on up and let's take it to the place where we belong!"
"say hooooo"
"the rise and fall of the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire...the ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble, the game that left the whole world in shambles"
"the cheats, the lies, the alibis, and the foolish attempts to conquer the skies...spending multibillions and maybe even trillions..."
"...and the children in Africa don't even eat...flies on their faces, they're livin like mice and their house even makes the ghetto look nice...their water tastes funny its forever too sunny and they work all month and don't make no money"
"minds are poisoned...souls are polluted...superiority complex is deep rooted"
"egomaniacs control the self righteous...nothing is sacred and nothing is pure, until the revelation of death is our cure.."
"to learn from the past and work for the future and don't be a slave to no computer...cause the children of man inherits the land and the future of the world is in you hands!"
"so just throw your hands in the air and wave em like you just don't care, and if you believe that you're the future scream on out and say Oh Yeah!"
Enjoy ya'all and take a stroll back on memory lane wit this one - Melle Mel and Beat Street Breakdown Ruh!
KEEP IT FRESH HIP HOPPERS!
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