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...
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Theres no denying the legend of Grandmaster Flash, he pioneered the art of DJ'ing and was the first hip hop artist inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Obviously, theres ample material to fill a book, considering he's been around to see a form of street music known as hip hop evolve from the corners of New York to a worldwide phenomenon. 'The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My...
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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...
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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...
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I had this tape when I was a teen and I've been trying to find this song for years.Today was my lucky day.
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It’s not every day that a living legend suddenly materializes ...
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On March 3rd, 2009, legendary hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash releases 'The Bridge' on Adrenaline City Entertainment via Strut, his first high profile studio album since his final recordings for Elektra back in 1987. "As a DJ, I've been blessed to see many different people, places and styles. The album title represents all the bridges I've crossed worldwide," explains Flash. "The bridges of t...
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Grandmaster Flash - The Message (REQUESTED)As requested by Rawkkiddo, You asked for old school rap well how about the godfathers of rap. Enjoy
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if not, i'm reinstating them. what can i say? old habits die hard.tonight feels like one of those nights when i want to put a song on repeat forever and then fall asleep with it blasting in my head.anyone else ever feel that way?
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If you are a gamer then you know all about the Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero wars. Well a new war is brewing now for the battle of the virtual DJ. In one corner is “Scratch: The Ultimate DJ” endorsed by turntable company NuMark and Beastie Boys DJ Mix Master Mike with a soundtrack featuring [...]
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Deejay Grandmaster Flash, along with the Furious Five, single-handedly developed hip hop as we know it (even Cowboy of the Five was given credit of coining the term). While “The Message”...* Summary only. Visit the site for full article!
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“What is a Grandmaster? A Grandmaster is the the head of a military order of knighthood, the head of a lodge, the head of a fraternal order or some other secret society”Hip Hop & Freemasonry: Culture Creation & The Shape of Things To Come is a recent addition to the hip-hop & conspiracy canon that, [...]
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Unless you're like the Ack, and you boycott any video game that requires you to do anything more complicated than repeatedly mashing one button, you've likely heard of DJ Hero. DJ Hero is exactly what you'd think: a DJ-based take on the Guitar Hero or Rock Band music simulation games that have blown up in the last few years. It looks pretty cool, and I certainly want to try it, but one of the...
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It's really great to see B-Boys & B-Girls gettin' their shine in this new full length documentary. For 30 years, b-boys & b-girls have been breakin' to the sounds of hip hop beats. Receiving mass attention in the early to mid 80s, the art of break dancing has not died out. Check the trailer to [...]
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Grandmaster Flash tells you a little of his-story!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTh6XCVF0Ok&feature=channel_page
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