This is part one of my tour of where I grew up in the Bronx and my process in creating the turntable science. Journalists get it correct, the dawn of Hip Hop was in the 70’s!!! Thank you to Sermon for the heads up on this video.
DJ Hero - Grandmaster Flash Rockit/Lapdance Remix Trailer More DJ Hero promo action as clips of Grandmaster Flash remixes are released, in this case a combo of Herbie Hancock's Rockit and N.E.R.D.'s Lapdance. DJ Hero - Grandmaster Flash DJ/Cars Remix Trailer And here's a...
DJ Grandmaster Flash talks about the new video game DJ Hero which should be out this October. Oh how we have come a long way since the belt drive turntables.
[Via Highbrid Nation]I have played Guitar Hero all of one time along with Rock Band. The one time I played Rock Band I was quite tipsy and was killing the mic. Nobody want to see me with the hand claps. I definitely get the crowd hype. Guitar Hero not so much because I am one of the selective few people that are left handed and was trying to play the guitar right handed. So in conclusion, I was...
What if Hip Hop was never born yoNo Herc No Flash No Bam No Jams yoNo Djs No Graf No Breakers No MCingWhat would the state of the world truly be inNo throw ya hands No screamin No Noise No Djs cuttinNo BBoys No Bgirls No Graffitti No Nothing.If Hip Hop was never born let me make this clearJust the Thought of it defintely brings me tearsKRS-One on What IfWhen I say that I've been waiting for thi...
Am I the only person out here who longs for the early days of old-school live-on-site scratching and cutting on the turntables? I'm talkin' records, baby! Sure, my mash-up lust is sated on a regular basis. But that mixing and melding of different recordings started somewhere. And the vestigial source could very well be a nimble-fingered, sure-handed Barbados native who began rocking house parti...
Grandmaster Flash has some grand plans for the future. According to his website, he has penned his memoirs with David Ritz and will release them this year. Ritz is responsible for writing the memoirs of Ray Charles and Marvin Gaye and now "The Message: The Grandmaster Flash Story."Meanwhile the Flash has been toiling away in the studio, putting soul into stereo, and DJing his favorite tunes o...
This past week while I was in New York doing some apartment hunting, my roommate and I pooled our collective no money and decided to spend it well by seeing hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash give a free interview, book signing and demonstration on turntablism at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble in support of his new autobiography, My Life, My Beats.Over a period of three and a half years, in a tiny N...