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Grandmaster Flash Autobiography On The Way
2008-05-15 20:20:00 Bronx native and Hip-Hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash is set to release a memoir this summer, chronicling his life?s triumphs and downfalls. The legendary DJ, born Joseph Saddler, has partnered with New York Times best selling author David Ritz to pen The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. The book, set to hit stores June 10 on Broadway Books imprint Harlem Moon Books, leaves no topic untouched, from Flash?s rise to Hip-Hop and Pop Culture prominence with the Furious...(read more)
Short Takes - R.E.M., Grandmaster Flash, Reba McEntire, more
2008-02-28 08:34:00 BBC2 will broadcast R.E.M.'s March 24 Royal Albert Hall concert live. Also playing the benefit concert are Robyn Hitchcock, Foals and Duke Spirit. BBC2 can be streamed over the internet.Paul McCartney will learn how much of his fortune will go to Heather Mills on March 17 when Justice Hugh Bennett will make his decision in the case.Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Grandmaster Flash has launched the new version of his website at www.grandmasterflash.com. His biography, My Life My Beats, will hit bookstores on June 10. It is written by David Ritz who also penned bios of Marvin Gaye and Ray Charles.Reba McEntire will return for her tenth stint hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 18. She has eleven ACM awards on 41 nominations.Gene Simmons has written on his official site that the sex tape that was released last week had been used in the past to try to blackmail him."You should know for the record, the garbage was recorded without my knowledge and is a page from my ...
Grandmaster Flash, Furious 5, Common Featured in Smithsonian
2008-01-16 18:00:00 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees Grandmaster and the Furious Five and rapper LL Cool J will be among those featured in a new Smithsonian exhibition on Hip-Hop culture launching in February. The exhibit, titled Recognize! Hip-Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, is the first exhibition at the Smithsonian to examine the influence of the Hip-Hop music and style on American culture. Photographs by David Scheinbaum will be displayed, as well as paintings by Kehinde Wiley, video self-portraits...(read more)
[Realvinylz - Magazin für elektronische Musik] Grandmaster Flash - The Adv
2007-11-25 00:00:00 Ja, und wo wir schonmal den Grossmeister Blitz erwauml;hnt haben, darf natuuml;rlich auch dieses Kleinod nicht fehlen: http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch? v=8IsAyAPCkss The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel Tag...
By: BlogNews
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (1983)
2007-06-06 01:58:00 DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop's greatest innovators, transcending the genre's party-music origins to explore the full scope of its lyrical and sonic horizons. Flash was born Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958; he began spinning records as teen growing up in the Bronx, performing live at area dances and block parties. By age 19, while attending technical school courses in electronics during the day, he was also spinning on the local disco circuit; over time, he developed a series of groundbreaking techniques including "cutting" (moving between tracks exactly on the beat), "back-spinning" (manually turning records to repeat brief snippets of sound), and "phasing" (manipulating turntable speeds) -- in short, creating the basic vocabulary which DJs continue to follow even today.Flash did not begin collaborating with rappers until around 1977, first teaming with the legendary Kurtis Blow. He then began working with the Furious Five -- rappe...
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five Inducted Into Rock And Roll Hall Of
2007-03-16 23:47:00 Hip-Hop history was made last night (Mar. 12), as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.As Hip-Hop pioneers, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were one of the first Hip-Hop groups to incorporate deejaying and emceeing in a group.?We are going in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to represent exactly who we are and what we did,? Melle Mel told AllHipHop.com. ?Nas saying that Hip-Hop is dead is 100 percent right,? Mele Mel told AllHipHop.com. ?If there's anyone who thinks that we aint worthy to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, well we should do something to prove them us, as well as Hip-Hop does belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.?The group consisted of Grandmaster Flash, the DJ and Cowboy, Mele Mel (formerly known as Melle Mel), Kidd Creole, Raheim, and Mr. Ness, the groups MC?s.The groundbreaking group went on to create such hits as ?The Message,? ?Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,? and countless others.Rap mog...
By: Yo Magazine
Grandmaster Flash / The Message / White Lines
2007-03-14 07:44:00 Much respect to Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five! Over the weekend Grandmaster Flash became the first-ever hip-hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The hottest hip-hop tracks today echo GMF's robust electronic creation called scratching and other creative turns atop funk bass lines and ethnocentric drums. You can hear their moody influence on today's rap and R&B music by T-Pain and Yung Jock; Crime Mob; Lil Scrappy; Rich Boy; and Mims. (Respective songs: Buy You a Drank, She Rock Her Hips, Money In Da Bank, Throw Some D's, and This Is Why I'm Hot.)Hear "Buy You a Drank" by T-Pain featuring Yung JocWhen Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and "White Lines" hit the airwaves, they redefined instrumentation. New or found elements would be given a spotlight and the space to become instruments in their own right. According to hip-hop authority Davey D, who filed a GMF interview in 1996 in his impressive Hip Hop 101 vault:There's not enough that can be written ...
By: South Side Star
Jay-Z inducts Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five into the Rock and Ro
2007-03-13 21:34:00 Last night, Jay-Z inducted Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are the first Hip Hop act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Congrats!Click the Picture to Watch the Induction Ceremony! (Scroll down the "Watch the Big Show" category to find Jay's appearance. ) (view more pics via wireimage)
Grandmaster Flash Inducted Into Rock Hall
2007-03-12 14:54:00 This picture shows that even rap’s trailblazers can be early 80s fashion victims too! Rap pioneer, Grandmaster Flash, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a New York ceremony this evening. He and his group, the Furious Five, break ground as the first rap inductees in the Hall. Their ...
By: Walk Taken!
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Definitive Groove
2006-10-02 15:12:03 ‘The Definitive Groove Collection’ offers listeners a lecture in hip-hop history, representing the best of the legendary Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s recordings from 1980 to 1987. One would be hard pressed to find lyrical expressions that more genuinely evoke the gritty reality of 1980s New York than the street poetry of “New [...] |
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