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Grandmaster Flash

Funk
Soul music
Rap music
Raised in the Bronx, New York, Grandmaster Flash was one of the seminal DJs at the birth of hip hop, noted for pioneering a number of turntable techniques including scratching, phrasing and back spinning. The Sugarhill Gang may have given hip hop its first hit when Rapper's Delight came out in 1979, but it was Flash and his crew the Furious Five who gave the genre a political conscience with dark tales of ghetto life on the 1982 single The Message. Responsible for moving the genre away from good-time party anthems and paving the way for Public Enemy, gangsta rap and generations o...
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The MessageGrandmaster Flash, Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
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Step OffGrandmaster Flash
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White LinesGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Melle Mel
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Dr. LoveGrandmaster Flash and First Choice
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White LinesGrandmaster Flash, Duran Duran and Furious Five
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It's NastyGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Furious Five
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The MessageGrandmaster Flash, Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

The Message

7:12

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Step OffGrandmaster Flash

Message from Beat Street (The Best of)

7:07

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White LinesGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Melle Mel

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

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Dr. LoveGrandmaster Flash and First Choice

Grandmaster Flash Presents Salsoul Jam 2000

3:08

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White LinesGrandmaster Flash, Duran Duran and Furious Five

Thank You

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It's NastyGrandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Furious Five

The Message

4:19

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