The Message

~ Recording by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.8The Message4:45Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five1983 The Hot OnesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Festival Records (Australian)RML 50004
1.3The Message4:43Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveAlbum + Compilation
Sugar Hill Records (US late 70s/early 80s rap)6.25 644
1.3The Message4:43Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveAlbum + Compilation
TELDEC244 086-1
1.3The Message4:43Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveAlbum + Compilation
TELDEC8.25644
1.5The Message4:44Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGreatest MessagesGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveAlbum + Compilation
  • US1984-01-01
Sugar Hill Records (US late 70s/early 80s rap)SH-9121
1.5Message4:44Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveGreatest MessagesGrandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveAlbum + Compilation
Sugar Hill Records (US late 70s/early 80s rap)SH 9121, SH-9121
1.1The Message4:46Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveThe Awesome 2 Present The History of Rap, Volume OneThe Awesome 2Album + Compilation
Select Records (1981–)21636-2
2.5The Message4:44Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveTouch My Soul: The Best of Black Music, Vol. 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Ariola (German label, used worldwide in the past)74321 18824 2
1.1The Message4:45Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveMTV the First 1000 Years: Hip-HopVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1999-11-02
Rhino (reissue label), MTV (TV network)R2 75975
1.5The Message4:46Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveNew Millennium Hip-Hop PartyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2000-04-25
Rhino (reissue label)R2 795824
6.6The Message4:49Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveSay It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in AmericaVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2001-10-09
Rhino (reissue label)76660
1.8The Message4:52Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveSüddeutsche Zeitung | Diskothek: 1982: Ein Jahr und seine 20 SongsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Süddeutsche Zeitung
1.13The Message4:47Grandmaster FlashUltimate Hip-Hop (30th Anniversary Collection)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
1.4The Message4:45Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle MelHip Hop GoldVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-04-25
Hip‐O RecordsB0006320-02
1.12The Message4:47Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveOld School Hip HopVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Compass Productions (budget compilations)OPCD-8307M
2.17The Message4:41Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveRFM: Le Meilleur du Disco et de la FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2013-11-25
Wagram Music (imprint/distributor)328 487-2
2.20The Message4:41Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five100 Hits Disco FunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2015-07-10
Wagram Music (imprint/distributor)3325502
2.13The Message4:42Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveRFM Party 80Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2018-01-12
Wagram Music (imprint/distributor)3353282
1.5The Message4:46Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveMillennium Hip-Hop Party, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
1.8The Message4:48Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveThe MessageGrandmaster FlashAlbum + Compilation
Sakkaris RecordsSK 45 206
Promotion
1.1The Message4:45Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five featuring Melle Mel & Duke BooteeThe Awesome 2 Present The History of Rap, Volume OneThe Awesome 2Album + Compilation
Select Records (1981–)SEL 21636
2.22The Message4:47Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke BooteeBlack History in Music Sampler 1999Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)PRCD 7278

Relationships

recording of:The Message (in 1982)

Related works

The Message

writer:Edward Fletcher
Jiggs Chase
Melvin Glover (Melvin Glover aka Melle Mel)
Sylvia Robinson
publisher:IQ Music Ltd.
referred to in medleys:The Megamelle Mix (order: 2)
is the basis for:Aserejé (“The ketchup song”)
Aserejé (spanglish version)
Cabinet Battle #1 (Hamilton: An American Musical)
Check Yo’ Self (remix)
Movement in Still Life
The Message
The Message ’95 (Die Fantastischen Vier remix)
The Message (’97 Dungeon mix)
The Message (T.A.K the Rhymehead remix)
The Next Ones to Come