The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Flash, Grandmaster. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780767924757.

A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the cultures most revered music icons€”both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was a groundbreaking union between one DJ and five rapping MCs. One of the first hip hop posses, they were responsible for such masterpieces as €œThe Message€ and €œAdventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel.€ In the 1970s Grandmaster Flash pioneered the art of break-beat DJing€”the process of remixing and thereby creating a new piece of music by playing vinyl records and turntables as musical instruments. Disco-era DJs spun records so that people could dance. The original turntablist, Flash took it a step further by cutting, rubbing, backspinning, and mixing records, focusing on €œbreaks€€”what Flash described as €œthe short, clim