Willie from Scottsdale, AzThe common protocol when dancing to this song is to do the "robot" during the accordion bridges, stopping and freezing your position when Flash shouts "Freeze!" And then resuming when he shouts "Rock!" :-).Esskayess from Dallas, TxI always thought this song sounded every bit as much "pro-coke" as "anti-coke." It makes using it sound exciting.Jinny from Brighton, United KingdomS Club 7 ripped this song off with their UK hit single 'S Club Party' which got to number 2 in 1999.But they couldn't collect court approved damages because Sugar Hill declared bankruptcy not long after the judgement. Katya Jones from NycActually Liquid Liquid and their indie label 99 Records successfully sued Sugar Hill for sampling "Cavern".Rick Mittelstaedt from Seattle, WaBest song of the eighties.The lyrics always mindlessly conflate the effects of cocaine with the effects of crack and Fentanyl, as if there's no difference between any of them. To the contrary, Freud used it to increase his focus - and stopped using it - without any drug-warrior bluster or fanfare - when it no longer served his purposes. Ballard Quass from Basye, VaSelling your soul? For using a plant medicine? Killin' your brain? That's a lie from the Partnership for a Drug Free America.The message always sounded to me like the older kids who warned us to not make the same mistakes they did. Rory from Oceanside CaLove this track, love the energy and the message.Being black & living as if all men in the USA are equal under the law, means a long & harsh prison sentence - quite often terminated early by death (easy for the guards to manipulate convicts into killing any particular one)Įxcellent song with a good beat & an important message to all, especially the unfairly targeted black youth in the inner cities. Campaigning on a tough-on-crime platform is easy, & locking up blacks tends to please voters, & each convict equals cash in the state treasury(both federal monies & private), which the governor gets credit for raising - of course, prison conditions do not reflect the amount of money allocated for upkeep & care, so that money goes into the g overnor's back pocket & those of his rich buddies who gave him the governorship. George Pope from Vancouver Bcin the USA, state governors receive millions in prison upkeep monies from DC.First heard it watching the movie Roll Bounce, couldn't find it on utube the soundtrack seems to be missing it By the time they put this song together, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five were fractured, and they broke up before it was released.īy this time, Melle Mel appropriated the name "Grandmaster," calling himself "Grandmaster Melle Mel." Flash and Mel went to court over the name, and in the end, this song is officially credited to "Grandmaster and Melle Mel." The composer credits on "White Lines" belong to Melle (Melvin Glover) and Sugar Hill owner/producer Sylvia Robinson. He did this on the 1981 song " The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel," but when it came to creating original songs, that was the specialty of the Sugar Hill Records house band and the group's lead rapper, Melle Mel. Flash made his living revolutionizing the way existing songs could be manipulated, creating beats that flowed seamlessly together. While Flash was indisputably the star of their live shows, when the group started recording in 1979, the dynamic changed. The band was known as Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five, and it was Flash who assembled the group as a way to provide vocal entertainment for his DJ sets (note that his name comes first). Grandmaster Flash is a DJ, and in the early days of hip-hop, they were considered more important than the MCs who rapped over their beats. ![]() Grandmaster Flash had nothing to do with this song, but it was originally released under his name.
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