Grandmaster Flash
Since Africans arrived in the Americas, they brought their creativity and brilliance with them, creating music that captures the essence of Black resistance. Black music, spanning genres like spirituals, blues, jazz, rock & roll, and gospel, has been the soundtrack of personal experiences and freedom movements that have shaped America. In the 1960s, Black music […]
Last night, the Grammy Awards dedicated an extended, centerpiece performance to the forthcoming 50th anniversary of hip-hop, going from Grandmaster Flash to Lil Uzi Vert in about 15 minutes. Opening with Grandmaster Flash performing his traditional record-scratching and drum-machine techniques, the first of three segments breezed through the late 1970s and 1980s with appearances by […]
Hip-Hop legend and icon Grandmaster Flash will be teaching a course at University of Buffalo. Grandmaster Flash will teach a 3 day in person class this fall at the college and will direct the working artist lab which is a hip hop inspired program. This is the 1st time that Grandmaster Flash will be working […]
Legends of Hip Hop gathered to break ground for a Universal Hip Hop Museum in the New York borough that birthed the culture, the Bronx. This included icons such as Nas, LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash, Fat Joe, Slick Rick, and many more. These Hip Hop royalties held shovels for the official ceremony celebrating the […]
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