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Grandmaster Flash

Funk
Soul music
Rap music
Raised in the Bronx, New York, Grandmaster Flash was one of the seminal DJs at the birth of hip hop, noted for pioneering a number of turntable techniques including scratching, phrasing and back spinning. The Sugarhill Gang may have given hip hop its first hit when Rapper's Delight came out in 1979, but it was Flash and his crew the Furious Five who gave the genre a political conscience with dark tales of ghetto life on the 1982 single The Message. Responsible for moving the genre away from good-time party anthems and paving the way for Public Enemy, gangsta rap and generations o...
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1, 2, 3...Rhymes Galore
1, 2, 3...Rhymes GaloreDJ Tomekk, Afrob, Grandmaster Flash, Flavor Flav and MC Rene

Return of Hip Hop

3:29

White Lines
White LinesGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Melle Mel

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of SteelGrandmaster Flash

The Message

7:10

It's Just Begun
It's Just BegunGrandmaster Flash and The Jimmy Castor Bunch

Essential Mix: Classic Edition

2:34

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Last Night a DJ Saved My LifeGrandmaster Flash and Indeep

Essential Mix: Classic Edition

3:24

Pump Me Up
Pump Me UpGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Melle Mel and Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five

The Very Best Of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & Furious Five

4:51

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