Au contraire Mr Stranj
Go check Grandmaster Flash adventures on the Wheels of steel - he also noticed the similarity - and mixed the two tunes together.
Quality hiphop uses samples intelligently - a skill sadly lost these days where artists just lift tunes wholsale!
check it!!
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Formation and early years (19781979)
Grandmaster Flash initially worked as a DJ, and sometimes a rapper, with his partner "Mean Gene" Livingston and practiced with the latter's brother Theodore Livingston at house and block parties in his neighborhood of the South Bronx for three years. However, it wasn't until 1977 that he began collaborating with rappers, Kurtis Blow being among them. He then recruited his friend Cowboy (Keith Wiggins), and Kidd Creole (Nathanial Glover) and Melle Mel (Melvin Glover) soon followed. This particular trio called themselves the Three MC's and worked with Flash, who went on to bring in Mr. Ness/Scorpio (Eddie Morris) and Raheim (Guy Williams). Among the first singles they released were "We Rap More Mellow" and a live version of "Flash to the Beat," for which they performed under the names the Younger Generation and Flash and the Five, respectively.
They were locally popular, gaining recognition for their skillful raps and deejaying, but it wasn't until the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" proved that hip hop music could reach mainstream that they began recording. Their first single on Enjoy! Records was "Supperrappin'", released in 1979. Afterwards, they switched to Sylvia Robinson's Sugar Hill Records after she promised them they could perform over a current DJ favorite.[4][5][3]
[edit] Mainstream success and The Message (19801982)
In 1980, the group had their Sugarhill Records debut with "Freedom," finally reaching #19 on the R&B chart and selling over 50,000 copies. The follow-up "Birthday Party" went on to become a hit as well. 1981 introduced Grandmaster Flash's influential "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel," a dizzying array of cutting and scratching that sampled from such songs as Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" and Chic's "Good Times." It also marked the first time that record scratching had been actually recorded on a record.
The group's most significant hit was "The Message" (1982), which was produced by Clifton "Jiggs" Chase and Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, the latter of whom co-wrote the song alongside Melle Mel. It provided a political and social commentary and went on to become a driving force behind conscious hip-hop. Furthermore, the song peaked at #4 in the R&B chart and #62 in the pop chart, sold half a million copies in a month, and established hip-hop's credibility in mainstream music. Other than Melle Mel, however, no members of the group actually appear on the record.
Their debut album was also named The Message, and it went on to become a prominent achievement in the history of hip-hop
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