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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“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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ProHipHop posts for Thursday, July 9: Lushlife: Cassette City Album Singles: Black Eyed Peas & Drake Top 3 on Hot 100 DJ Hero: Grandmaster Flash Remix Trailers Albums: Now That's What I Call Music! 31 is #1
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Grandmaster Flash has announced that he will release his first album in twenty years on February 23. The Bridge: Concept of a Culture will feature guest appearances from Snoop Dog, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Big Daddy Kane and others.Another rock biopic may be on the way. Eddie Martin is planning a film on the life of AC/DC's Bon Scott. According to Martin, the film is still in the research stage....
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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.
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via vibe.com, spotted @ Spine.Previously: Can Grandmaster Mele Mel Rap?Updated: Video Response by Mele Mel“You know I heard the little controversy with Joe Budden thinking that he should be higher on the list. But he has to understand that once you go down chronologically, every MC had some type of influence that made them who [...]
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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.
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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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Grandmaster Flash: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!
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Grandmaster Flash is ready to put out his first album of new material since 1987 with The Bridge. The album is due March 3 on Adrenaline City Entertainment via Strut. According to antimusic.com, Flash said "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. The bridges of t...
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This is not a comeback album that will reinvigorate Flash to enter a brilliant second stage of his career. But appreciate it for the statement it makes.
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Grandmaster Flash has revealed that he is an interesting hobby, collecting mugs.The Hip Hop pioneer has a collection of over 5,000 mugs collects souvenir mugs from every country and state that he visits.Each mug is housed in a special storage place.He says, “The room temperature is correct and the place is insured.”var mooter_ad_format="0";var mooter_terms = [...]
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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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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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