"The Message" Rated as The Greatest Hip-Hop Song Of All Time

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" has been called  the number 1 spot on Rolling Stone Magazine's first ever Top 50 Songs That Have Influenced Hip-Hop History list.  The 1982 classic hip hop hit managed to "tell, with hip hop's rhythmic and vocal force, the truth about modern inner-city life in America," according to Rolling Stone.