{"id":1410,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2014-04-21T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T02:11:29","slug":"dukebootee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/dukebootee.htm","title":{"rendered":"Duke Bootee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Fletcher is probably best known for his work on <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/furiousfive.htm\">Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five&#8217;s<\/a> seminal hit &#8220;The Message&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a session musician at Sugarhill in its heyday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Message 2&#8221; was released after the split of the Furious 5 and is credited solely to Melle Mel and Duke Bootee.<\/p>\n<p>Duke Bootee was a highly prolific producer on the scene from this time up until around 1986 as well as an artist in his own right. He made a solo album in 1985 on Mercury called &#8220;Bust Me Out&#8221; which featured the excellent &#8220;Live Wire (I Wanna Girl That Sweats)&#8221;. His biggest solo success was &#8220;Broadway&#8221; on his Beauty &amp; The Beat label in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>He also produced Z 3 MCs &#8211; &#8220;Triple Threat&#8221; in 1985, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/wordofmouth.htm\">DJ Cheese &amp; Word of Mouth<\/a>&#8211; &#8220;King Kut&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Coast to\u00a0Coast&#8221;, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/masterdoncommittee.htm\">Masterdon Committee<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Get Off My Tip&#8221; 1986, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/krob.htm\">K-Rob<\/a> &amp; DJ Cheese &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m A Homeboy&#8221; and Point Blank MCs &#8220;We Rock Hard To The Body&#8221; in 1987.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Check out the video for &#8220;The Message&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4o8TeqKhgY?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Additional information by Ed Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"\/artists\/emcees.htm\">Back to MC&#8217;s Biographies<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Fletcher is probably best known for his work on Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five&#8217;s seminal hit &#8220;The Message&#8221;. He was also a session musician at Sugarhill in its heyday. &#8220;The Message 2&#8221; was released after the split of the Furious 5 and is credited solely to Melle Mel and Duke Bootee. Duke Bootee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,73,75,74,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}