This section is about classics, everyweek we'll be posting some classics stuffs. enjoy," Before he became an innovative, world-famous DJ, Grandmaster Flash was just an 18-year old kid named Joseph Saddler who lived in the South Bronx of the mid-70’s. Young Flash was inspired by both a local block party DJ named Kool Herc – who looped the breakbeats off of funk albums by alternating between two copies of any given record – and the mid-town disco DJs who were seamlessly matching beats to connect songs on the fly. Combining the theory of what Herc was doing with the technical mixing skill of a disco DJ, Flash invented a new way of creating music.
His brilliance wasn’t appreciated all at once. Flash literally went home in tears after his first live audience refused to dance to this strange new music made completely from snippets of other albums. But by the time he joined forces with the Furious Five – a collection of some of the best MCs of the day – in 1977, he was a local star on the rise. MCs Melle Mel, Cowboy, Scorpio (aka Mr. Ness), Raheem, and Kid Creole were nearly as groundbreaking as Flash himself. Cowboy in particular is responsible for so many of the pat phrases that litter the history of hip hop (”Hip hip hop and you don’t stop…” etc) that his heirs ought to receive daily five-figure royalty checks in perpetuity.
Flash & Co turned down the chance to become the first rap artists to record an album – an honor that instead went to the built-for-the-occasion Sugarhill Gang. After dropping a few singles, they released the full-length LP The Message in 1982. It’s a curious record – the first six songs provide a raucous yet relaxed vibe that’s a veritable time capsule of the block party roots of the genre. But the title track closes out the album with a seven-minute roadmap to everything that Hip-Hop would become. By drawing from the scenery around them, the group created a gritty, autobiographical sound that would alter the course of rap music.
In early 1981, pop group Blondie released the song ‘Rapture’, which quickly climbed to #1. During her rap within the tune, Debbie Harry name-checks Flash (”Flash is fast, Flash is cool”), but neither that boost nor the success of ‘The Message’ could prevent Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five from breaking up in 1983. In 2007, they became the first Hip-Hop act elected to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame – pioneers once again. "
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