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Grandmaster Flash

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Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop recording artist and DJ. [1]

71 relations: Artist, Audio mixing (recorded music), Ba-Dop-Boom-Bang, Barbados, BET Hip Hop Awards, Big Fun in the Big Town, Blondie (band), Breakbeat, Breakdancing, Bridgetown, Can't Stop Won't Stop (book), Caribbean, Disc jockey, DJ Hero, DJ Kool Herc, Electro (music), Elektra Records, Enjoy Records, Essential Mix: Classic Edition, Featherweight, Flash Is Back, Funk, Funky 4 + 1, Grammy Award, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flowers, Greatest Messages, Hip hop, Hip hop music, Hip-Hop Evolution, Jay-Z, Jeff Chang (journalist), Jumz, Kel Spencer, Kurtis Blow, Loop (music), Lovebug Starski, Mamoudou Athie, Melle Mel, Midnight Juggernauts, Netflix, New York (state), New York City, Old-school hip hop, On the Strength, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Rhythm, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Salsoul Jam 2000, ..., Samuel Gompers High School, Sandy Saddler, Scat singing, Scratching, Sirius Satellite Radio, South Bronx, Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label), The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel, The Bridge (Concept of a Culture), The Bronx, The Clash, The Get Down, The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five album), The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song), The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash, The Source (Grandmaster Flash album), The Sugarhill Gang, They Said It Couldn't Be Done, United States, Urban Music Awards, Wild Style. Expand index (21 more) »

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Ba-Dop-Boom-Bang

Ba-Dop-Boom-Bang is the fifth album released by Grandmaster Flash.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.

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BET Hip Hop Awards

The BET Hip Hop Awards are an annual awards show, airing on BET, showcasing hip hop performers, producers and music video directors.

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Big Fun in the Big Town

Big Fun in the Big Town is a Dutch music documentary made by the VPRO in 1986.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breaks, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz and R&B, for the main rhythm.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Bridgetown

Bridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) is the capital and largest city of Barbados.

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Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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DJ Hero

DJ Hero is a music video game, developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision as a rhythm game spin-off of the Guitar Hero franchise.

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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican–American DJ who is credited with helping originate hip hop music in the early–1970s in The Bronx, New York City.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Enjoy Records

Enjoy Records was a record label owned and operated by Bobby Robinson from 1962 through the mid-1980s, and was run out of his record shop at 125th Street and 8th Ave.

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Essential Mix: Classic Edition

Essential Mix: Classic Edition is an album released by Grandmaster Flash.

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Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Flash Is Back

Flash Is Back is the sixth studio album released in 1998 by Grandmaster Flash.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funky 4 + 1

Funky 4 + 1 was an American hip hop group from The Bronx, New York.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grand Wizzard Theodore

Theodore Livingston (born March 5, 1963), better known as Grand Wizzard Theodore, is an American hip hop DJ.

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1976.

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Grandmaster Flowers

Grandmaster Flowers (Jonathon Cameron Flowers) was a DJ from Brooklyn, New York.

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Greatest Messages

Greatest Messages is a compilation album release by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five (On The Strength is their official second album).

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hip-Hop Evolution

Hip-Hop Evolution is a four-part Canadian music documentary series, which aired on HBO Canada in 2016.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Jeff Chang (journalist)

Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture.

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Jumz

Rafael Ramon (born March 14, 1984) better known by his stage name JUMZ is an American rapper.

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Kel Spencer

Lennie De Juan Bennett better known by his stage name Kel Spencer (born 1978) is an American hip hop recording artist, producer, songwriter, actor and film director from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

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Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record/film producer, Bboy, DJ, public speaker and minister.

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Loop (music)

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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Lovebug Starski

Kevin Smith (May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018), best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer.

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Mamoudou Athie

Mamoudou Athie (b. 1988) is an American actor.

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Melle Mel

Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961), better known as Melle Mel and Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician – one of the pioneers of rap as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

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Midnight Juggernauts

Midnight Juggernauts are an Australian band from Melbourne, composed of Andrew Szekeres, Vincent Vendetta (Vincent Heimann), and Daniel Stricker.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Old-school hip hop

Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) is a term describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music.

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On the Strength

On the Strength is the second and final studio album by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Salsoul Jam 2000

Salsoul Jam 2000 (Dance Your Ass Off) is a DJ mix album by Grandmaster Flash.

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Samuel Gompers High School

Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School was a public vocational school for grades 9–12 located in East Morrisania, Bronx, New York, named for American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers.

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Sandy Saddler

Joseph "Sandy" Saddler (June 23, 1926 – September 18, 2001) was an American professional boxer.

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Scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

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Scratching

Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.

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Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio was a satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings.

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South Bronx

The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

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Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)

Sugar Hill Records was a record label specializing in hip hop music that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records.

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The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel

"The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" is a single released by Grandmaster Flash in 1981.

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The Bridge (Concept of a Culture)

The Bridge (Concept of a Culture) is the seventh studio album by American hip hop recording artist Grandmaster Flash, his first studio album since 1998's Flash is Back.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Get Down

The Get Down is an American musical drama television series created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis.

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The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five album)

The Message is the debut studio album of American hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, released in October 1982 by Sugar Hill Records.

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The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)

"The Message" is a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

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The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash

The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash is a DJ mix album by Grandmaster Flash and was released in January 2002.

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The Source (Grandmaster Flash album)

The Source is the fourth studio album by Grandmaster Flash, released in 1986.

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The Sugarhill Gang

The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group.

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They Said It Couldn't Be Done

They Said It Couldn't Be Done is the third album released by Grandmaster Flash, which followed the breakup of the Furious Five because of the departure of rappers Melle Mel, Scorpio, and Keith Cowboy.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban Music Awards

The Urban Music Awards (UMA) is a hip-hop, R&B, dance and soul music awards ceremony launched by Jordan Kensington in 2003 and now held in several countries.

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Wild Style

Wild Style is an American 1983 hip hop film produced by Charlie Ahearn.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash

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