years_active label article_title background genre origin birth_name
1982 -- 1992 sugar hill records duke bootee
 solo_singer hip hop new york ed fletcher
duke bootee

edward g. fletcher , known as duke bootee , is an early hip hop and rap producer , who produced some of the most early and important rap records his best known single was `` the message '' .
produced for sugar hill records , this record featured legendary rapper melle mel and duke bootee .
the label on the record marketed the song as grandmaster flash and the furious five , although the actual performers were melle mel and duke bootee .
later , he collaborated again with melle mel on the singles `` message ii -lrb- survival -rrb- '' , and `` new york new york '' , in which the latter was credited to grandmaster flash and the furious five .
