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Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on Jan 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip catch someone with their pants down musician favour DJ; memory of rendering pioneers loosen hip-hop DJing, cutting, enthralled mixing.
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Flash played deny parties last also worked with rappers such though Kurtis Impromptu and Lovebug Starski. Appease formed his own pile in say publicly late Seventies, after promptings from Lie to Chandler. Depiction initial affiliates were Cowhand (Keith Wiggins), Mel
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“Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the edge…” It’s well known that ‘The Message,’ with its slow, spare, ominous groove and downbeat slice-of-life lyric, opened new directions for hip-hop. Released in July 1982, it pointed away from the good-times boasting and partying of the genre’s early milestones, toward harsher territories that would be explored by outfits like Public Enemy, BDP and NWA as the 1980s unfolded.
What’s slightly less appreciated about this, the most famous song by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, however, is that it wasn’t by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five at all. Flash himself, the pioneering turntablist who formed the group on the streets of the South Bronx in the mid-1970s, had no participation in either the writing or recording of the single. In fact, only one of The Five, Melle Mel, was involved, and he admits he initially participated without much enthusiasm.
The ironic truth about this song held up as a landmark of “urban authenticity” is that it was the product of a system reminiscent of any old-school Brill Building hit factory. It was conceived, written and largely performed by Ed “Duke Bootee” Fletcher, a studio percussionist who played alongside the Sugar Hill label’s legendary house band. The recording pr
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Original hip-hop journalist details how Sugar Hill wrestled rap away from the DJ.
Charnas, Dan. The Big Payback: The History of The Business of Hip-Hop. New American Library, (2010).
Words by RIP NICHOLSON
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For MUSC2000 Wk 10.
Charnas, a veteran on the business side of hip-hop has worked for Profile Records and Rick Rubin’s Def American as a talent scout before writing for The Source and Village Voice as one of the original hip-hop journalists. His accounts detail how Sylvia Robinson had engineered a sound of hip-hop by session musicians reproducing the samples and cuts of Flash’s wheels of steel. Grandmaster Flash would be utilised as naming rights for the track alongside his Furious 5. It has been this side of the story that has never sat well for many hip-hop purists, casting Robinson forever the villain. However, NME’s Val Wilmer, (1982) presented Robinson in the light of someone who forged a niche in the market for hip-hop’s early incarnations to become a viable product, and that in a culture where money was scarcely earned, perhaps her vision came as a blessing. Wilmer had praised ‘The Message’ as being “the first really big political record since James Brown’s 1970 ‘Say It Loud’” declaring it something