Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler, better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a Barbadian-born American hip hop recording artist and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be so honored...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth1 January 1958
CityBridgetown, Barbados
CountryUnited States of America
If you think about the history of Hip Hop we've had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers.
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?
For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
I like fixin' up old cars and doing things with my family.
I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's.
I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.
Exactly, especially when you're talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.
So what the owners see is that we are fighting amongst each other and causing controversy, but as long as it's selling records they don't care.
A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.
My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.
My contribution is: I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.
I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.