Beat Street (1984)

Melle Mel: Grand Master Melle Mel

Quotes 

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  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...

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  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...

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  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...

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  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...

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  The 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 and work for the future...

• Grandmaster Melle Mel : [rappin']  And don't be a slave to no computer, Cause the children of Man inherit the land, And the future of the world is in your hands...