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FILE - Grandmaster Flash (at podium) & the Furious Five accept their award for being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during ceremonies in New York, March 12, 2007. In the five decades since hip-hop emerged out of New York City, it has spread around the country and the world. And at each step there's been change and adaptation, as new, different voices came in and made it their own. Coming from America's Black communities, it has meant hip-hop has been a tool to speak out against injustice, like in 1982 when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five told the world in “The Message,” that the stresses of poverty in their city neighborhoods made it feel “like a jungle sometimes/It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)