Topic: Grandmaster Flash

What's on: Grandmaster Flash, Accrington, February 4

Lancashire Telegraph, UK - 18 days ago
ONE of the pioneers of hip hop and most respected names in rap is heading to Accrington. . . Grandmaster Flash, who was behind two of the most...

Kool And The Gang to top festival

BBC News - 20 days ago
Kool And The Gang and OMD have been announced as headliners for the fourth annual 1980s music festival in Henley-on-Thames.. . The American soul...

Grandmaster Flash planning new album for early 2012

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 75 days ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grandmaster Flash, one of the pioneering DJs of hip-hop music culture, is working on his eighth studio album nearly three decades after the release of his influential record "The Message."The Bronx-based DJ gained recognition in the 80s and ...

Common, Lupe Fiasco, and LL Cool J Perform "The Mesage" With Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Hip Hop Wired - 75 days ago
Common, Lupe Fiasco, and LL Cool J ripped the Grammy concert last night as they joined Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mell performing the The...

Kanye West, Adele lead Grammy nods

AFP Global Edition - 75 days ago
US rapper Kanye West has won the most nominations for next year's Grammys, followed closely by British singer Adele, continuing her awards success despite recent health woes.West was nominated Wednesday in seven categories for the music industry's top awards ...

Grammy Hall of Fame Inducts First-Ever Hip-Hop Record

SOHH - 76 days ago
Reports claim since getting established in 1973, this marks the first-time a hip-hop recording has received the Hall of Fame recognition.. The new...

“The Message” Inducted In Grammy HOF

Rap Radar - 82 days ago
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's “The Message” is one of the 25 recordings that have recently been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame...

Grammy Hall of Fame's recording inductees

San Francisco Chronicle - 84 days ago
0 . Los Angeles -- . . The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St.," Bill Cosby's "I Started...

Needle dropping

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 453 days ago
Assorted References hip-hop (in hip-hop (cultural movement): Needle dropping, created by Grandmaster Flash, prolonged short drum breaks by playing two copies of a record simultaneously and moving the needle on one turntable back to the start of the break while the other ...

How to Start a Rap Music Collection

eHow - 462 days ago
Rap music emerged in the mid-1980s as a new genre of music, a hybrid or rock, rhythm and blues sounds. Buy albums and songs that your hear on the radio or see on BET and MTV.. These include 2Pac, Jay-Z, Rakin, Nas ...