Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five - Beat Street Breakdown 1984

@christosmamalis2972 7 months ago

No one will ever surpass the level of these lyrics

@andrewSUN17 4 months ago

Timeless and forever! Melle Mel n Scorpio, Furious 5 still alive!

@Daddy._Life 1 year ago

This is one of the best verses of all time.

@devinwarren8376 8 months ago

Melle Mel definitely killed this dropping knowledge pioneer of the game

@JediKnightmare 2 years ago

“ The cheats, the lies, the alibies And the foolish attempts to conquer the sky Lost in space, and what is it worth? Huh, the president just forgot about Earth Spendin multi-billionns and maybe even trillions The cost of weapons ran into zillions “

@hawsrulebegin7768 1 year ago

The problem with Melle Mel is he’s too good. He’s an artist who spoke about the world not just his own life. He’s not about ego and glorifying the bad in life. He had something to say and said it in a way even kids like me in Wales could understand. He helped me respect hip hop and realise that art is important. Today there’s not anyone like him, what he aimed to do. Not at the level he was at anyhow. A hero.

@mikebest2608 1 year ago

This is highest level of lyricism

@SonnyMeadows 1 year ago

Damn...40 yrs later & still relavant🤯

@sambo2861 2 months ago

I thank my mother for introducing me to this masterpiece ❤

@whippz75 2 years ago

Greatest hip hop lyrics of all time in my opinion.

@robertosantiago5349 1 year ago

Melle Mel dropping knowledge, it's still relevant today

@geddawaymedia6148 1 year ago

"learn from the past, and work for the future/ and don't be a slave to no com-puter" -Melle Mel 1984

@UKBreakz 2 years ago

Beat Street Breakdown, Rrrrhaa! Beat Street, the king of the beat You see him rockin' that beat from across the street And huh-huh, Beat Street is a lesson, too Because ah, you can't let the streets beat you Uh! Well, a picture can express a thousand words To describe all the beauty of life you give And if the world was yours to do over I know you'd paint a better place to live Where the colors would swirl And the boys and girls can grow in peace and harmony And where murals stand on walls so grand As far as the eyes are able to see, ha I never knew art till I saw your face And there'll never be one to take your place 'Cause each and every time you touch a spraypaint can Michaelangelo's soul controls your hands Then serenades of blue and red And the beauty of the rainbow fills your head Crescendo colors playin' tunes Man why oh why you'd have to die so soon? Say 1, 2, 3, 4 just let me know what you came here for And just clap your hands everybody and let me know that I'm not alone And if you knew my man when he was alive scream it out and say Ramo (Ramo), Ramo (Ramo) I'm talking about, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust Where the good die young is all thy must Cause as life must live death must die And the tears shall fall from the living eye Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream Of the beautiful cities and the island's dreams? When your works of art brought into being All that the ghetto stopped you from seeing Still life urban masterpiece Your trademark was written on trains and walls A million dollar gift only God released Huh, and yet you got killed for nothin' at all So after this there'll be no more hard time No more bad times and no more pain No more chump change, none of that bull Just movies, museums and the hall of fame So all you hip-hops, get on up And let's take it to the top where we belong 'Cause the age of the Beat Street wave is here Everybody let's sing along, come on Say hooo (Hooo) Say hooo (Hooo) And to let me know I'm rockin the microphone Everybody say Ramo (Ramo) Ramo (Ramo) Rrrrhaa! A newspaper burns in the sand And the headlines say 'Man Destroys Man' Extra extra, read all the bad news On the war for peace that everybody would lose The rise and fall, 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 alibies And the foolish attempts to conquer the sky Lost in space, and what is it worth? Huh, the President just forgot about Earth Spendin' multi-billions and maybe even trillions The cost of weapons ran in the zillions There's gold in the street and there's diamond under feet And the children in Africa don't even eat Flies on their faces, they're livin' like mice And their houses even make the ghetto look nice Huh, the water tastes funny, it's forever too sunny And they work all month and don't make no money A fight for power, a nuclear shower A people shout out in the darkest hour Sights unseen and voices unheard And finally the bomb gets the last word Christians killed Muslims and Germans killed Jews And everybody's bodies are used and abused, Huh, minds are poisoned and souls are polluted Superiority complex is deep rooted Leeches and lices, and people got prices Egomaniacs control the self-righteous Nothin' is sacred and nothin' is pure So the revelation of death is our cure Dachau, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Leningrad, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Korea, The philippines Devastation, Death camps and killing machines Peoples in terror, the leaders made a error And now they can't even look in the mirror 'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher And that's the reason why we got to get tougher So learn from the past it worked 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 your 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 it out and say oh yeah (Oh yeah) Oh yeah (Oh yeah) Rrrrhaa! Everybody, Do you believe!