No one is floating on a conscious song like this after all these years.

Classic

Yea this beats Never Gon Lose from Future by a hair’s breadth

Yea thats not a hot take

this jus the best rap song oat tbh

This song is one of those Jaws/Star Wars level seminal moments but not just for hiphop, for music period

@ 9:55 Melle Mel raps what ended up becoming the final verse for The Message, in 1979 at age 18 on one of the first ever rap singles, Superrappin. And with how things moved then, Mel likely had the rhyme written even earlier at some point during high school.

The verse was later used for The Message because another group member (escaping me right now but either Kid Creole or Cowboy I think) thought it would fit

But to hear him just casually spit that verse on this early rap record is insane. More than a leap, this was a big bang. It is still vastly understated how great and innovative he actually was. And honestly I think this verse is slept on and overshadowed by the iconic first verse and hook. But this is the best rap verse ever arguably