Emerging from the South Bronx in the 1970s, Grandmaster Flash and his innovations helped create one of the most widespread movements in popular culture: hip-hop. Using a turntable as an instrument, Grandmaster Flash fast-tracked his career and notoriety before forming the legendary group the Furious Five, in Season 1, Episode 7, “Grandmaster Flash.”
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You don’t buy a name you sign a group 🤬. Miss me with that !!!!
That dude is not an original member of the sugar hill gang. He has no idea what really went on back then.
Don’t push me coz I’m close to the edge
I’m tryin not to lose my head
Uhu hu hu hu
Video too long; did not watch!
Legendary
Loved this one. I have been hocked on all of them.
DJ Kool Herc launched the foundational era of hip hop in August 1973 when he hosted his famous back-to-school jam in the Bronx and pioneered the use of the breakbeat. Grandmaster Flash came slightly after as part of the next wave. He looked up to Kool Herc as a hero and began DJing a couple of years later (around 1975), taking Herc’s foundational ideas and drastically evolving them through technical innovations like the backspin, cutting, and clock theory. While Herc laid the blueprint, Flash built upon those mechanics to take turntablism to the next level.