Wellington, Dec 6 : The 1982 hit `The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five has been named the greatest hip hop song of all time, in the first such list by Rolling Stone magazine.
According to Rolling Stone, the track, which tops a list of 50 influential hip hop songs, was the first track "to tell, with hip hop's rhythmic and vocal force, the truth about modern inner-city life in America," Stuff. co. nz reported.