Flash you had a massive influence on me back in the days. Growing up in East Berlin we secretly enjoyed music we weren’t allowed to. Bizarrely enough our government at the time decided to show the movie Beat Street in cinemas aimed at teenagers like me. The intention was to show how bad America is and the social difference between rich and poor. The effect of watching it was that we started our own movement including the music. Wall. Long story short flash I am grateful for this experience and have the greatest respect for you and what you have done of course - I still listen to your music to, to this day. 🙏

Grandmaster Flash should release videos on everything, with his voice and that bass tone and the flashing logo. I don’t care what he talks about. He could read his grocery list. I would be mesmerized regardless

he never did it for money or fame but for love of music and culture. true legend

I love Herc in my bones. Thank you Flash for this “letter” It is beautiful. It is truth. It is love. It made me cry. I know the relationship has never been what you wanted it to be. I wish nothing but love for you and Herc and that the two of you can come together in harmony and as true pioneers. Love and peace Flash and Herc 🤍

Damn Flash is so humble. Kool Herc should swallow his pride and squash the beef. They are both living legends.

@Devin_Haney

2 ай бұрын

1st rule in the 48 laws of power --> Don't outshine your master and this clown trying to act like he is a godfather when he's the godchild.

Every video is a educational lesson....love this Grand-master. Would love to see you and Kool Herc settle the differences and do a public sitdown and talk about your greatness together. One Love.

@aaronwinder3930

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlackLotusVisualArchive exactly. Seems like Herc is jealous of Grandmaster

Still here in 2020 watching one legend pay bondage to another.. Classic shit man.. I make beats and engineer, but since The Get Down premiered on Netflix I've have been looking into learning to dj. I had my eye on a Roland DJ controller to start with, but I think I wanna go ahead and learn on vinyl first, then transition to controllers later. I'm ready, and it's thanks to Grandmaster Flash, who put me up on Cool Herc and Grandwizard Theodore.. Much love, honor and respect due to these men…

@squareglobeplus

10 ай бұрын

bondage :o

This was posted a year ago but I just watched it and forwarded it to Herc via text. I don't think he knows about this. I know him very well, since I was a teen. Not very tech savy. So, like I said I don't think he seen this and needs to. Very nice. Thanks Flash.

@michellewolf7907

4 жыл бұрын

I sure hope he got it. As a little 13 yr old red headed white girl from Jersey who had no damn business in the Bronx hanging in the parks and abandoned buildings watching the beginnings of what I never knew would be the start of a whole new era.... Sedgewick, Cedar Park, watching B boys and Cowboy yelling the now infamous WAVE YA HANDS IN THE AIR , WAVE EM LIKE YA JUST DONT CARE , I would LOVE , absoloutley LOVE to see Herc come back around the public eye and be at peace with Flash, the Zulu nation and all of what he started.

@michellewolf7907

4 жыл бұрын

Tyvm

@barryjohnson409

4 жыл бұрын

@@michellewolf7907 , you must shake your head when you hear rap/ hiphop every time...just knowing that you witnessed the origins of HipHop. I wish I was old enough in that era, I was born in 73' - Staten Island, NY but moved around...NJ, other places...military child but I had a great childhood, no regrets...that's history. You can say,that you were exposed to a culture outside your origins, that's always good, no matter the differences in where we come from, our horizons are broadened. 👌😉

@michellewolf7907

4 жыл бұрын

@JulietJackson - Do ya know if Herc got it yet? And what he thought if so?

@skimmerrankin

4 жыл бұрын

Sup Juliet Jackson aka “The original Jazzy Jay”.. B-Crew 4Life

This felt like Socrates speaking about Plato, Voltaire speaking about Sir Isaac Newton, Tesla speaking about Edison, MLK speaking about Malcolm X ~(Truly Breath Taking)~

@818bulldog4

6 жыл бұрын

WORD!!!!!!

@sensuala2583

6 жыл бұрын

INDEED!!!

@radwizard

6 жыл бұрын

Tesla dissed Edison tho......

@christseen

6 жыл бұрын

Ummm Edison did nothing but rip people off and use smear technics. He was a dirt bag... Not a very good choice for this discussion... Unless you are trying to say someone ripped the other off and want to use diversion... When exactly did Tesla "dis" edison? Link please? Know yr his story not their story...

@johngaltego1

5 жыл бұрын

I think you meant like Plato speaking about Socrates. Socrates was Plato's teacher and actually never wrote anything himself.

What I respect about Flash the most is that Herc has been shitting on him for years. He has a major disdain for Flash for some reason yet Flash has always been humble and gracious and gives Herc the utmost respect no matter what he says about him

@beeboy6967

6 жыл бұрын

Have to agree bxdale83, I first saw Flash in 2002 ( got to shake / slap / high five his right hand, whatever you want to call it ) This is back before Laptops & Serato. Just him, 8 crates of vinyl & his pancake handler. That's his side kick who hand's him the wax. I still have the concert ticket stub as well. Didn't know they weren't on talking terms though ! Yeah, It seems that Flash is the bigger man, we'll have to see if Kool Herc replies......Peace to all B Boys & B Girls worldwide....& Happy Birthday HIP HOP ! It don't stop................

@SBBLURAY1

6 жыл бұрын

Not "for some reason." He is obviously jealous that Flash has gotten all the attention and is actually getting PAID. The Get Down was fantastic. Hurc has shitted on it, but of curse, he wished HE was involved in the making of it and getting paid instead of Flash.

@bxdale83

6 жыл бұрын

Herc's animosity for Flash goes back way before The Get Down. It has been going on for nearly 20 years

@bxdale83

6 жыл бұрын

balle733 I don't see why I need to shut up, I'm just stating what I have noticed. And Herc is not that well liked either. He drew the ire of some of his fellow Hip Hop Pioneers when he dissed The Get Down in an interview and for not showing up the Hip Hop Boulevard ceremony cause he wanted to get paid (alledgedly) I agree about Flash trying to take credit for certain things (Grandwizard Theodore and scratching) but Herc has shown bitterness towards Flash that is almost unwarranted

@SBBLURAY1

6 жыл бұрын

You're an idiot. He DEMONSTRATING what he invented, not seeking attention. And of course these videos will make others upset - because they are demonstrating nothing but running their mouths.

I’m a korean Hip-Hop culture lover. I feel like hometown. One love 🙌 고맙습니다. pioneers.

@kosmique

4 жыл бұрын

thats awesome man. thanx for your recognition of the art & wonders.

@jaayjones3159

3 жыл бұрын

Peace ✌😎🎵🎶

This man is so eloquent, knowledgeable and informative before “ANY” DJ gets involved they should have to listen to a tutorial from GRANDMASTER FLASH!!!!!!

There were 4 major players at hops inception...Herc, Mario, Flash and Bam!!! The Culture blew up from there on. Kudos to them and the rest that immediately followed.

That story about Flash's dad beating him every time he touched his stuff is fucked up, but it's important to the history of his career. It's amazing.

@tekoppentekoppen761

4 жыл бұрын

He made him twice.

@NicholasChorba

3 жыл бұрын

People were very protective of their records. No body oils allowed in the grooves because it would affect the quality of the sound. They held records in their hands like living organisms. No scratches on the record or else the needle would jump back and loop "like a broken record". Depending on the equipment, someone may have been protective of that as well.

@overzone666

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicholasChorba no. beating children is not okay.

@NicholasChorba

2 жыл бұрын

@@overzone666 I never said it was, clown. Stop trying to put words in other people's mouths.

@overzone666

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicholasChorba you know what you said :)

Thank you brother Grand Master Flash for being the architect of the DJ on the mixer and turn tables. ✌

Much Love to you GrandMaster Flash⚡️, from all the Hip Hoppers down here in New Zealand to Australia and All the Pacific Islands 🌴 Arohanui atu

DISCO KING MARIO SHOULD'VE BEEN THE 1ST SHOUT-OUT! HE BROUGHT THE MUSIC TO THE STREETS IN THE FIRST PLACE. PERIOD!!!!!!

@brittanychavez2888

Жыл бұрын

Facts!

@amarstreetfunk

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@dirtyglovekennels616

Жыл бұрын

You 20 people should make us a video about Disco King Mario because the rest of us don't know nothing about him

@amarstreetfunk

Жыл бұрын

@@dirtyglovekennels616 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJWAu8ybc5TbpLA.html

@AlexanderDivineEmcee

Жыл бұрын

@@dirtyglovekennels616 there have been! which you probably couldve found out faster than you left your silly comment if you just took a second to search his name up… 😊

What a beautiful instrument the turntables and a mixer make.

just remember .. most new djs don't even know about this shit... the ones that get the skill set ... regardless of who started it are keeping Hip Hop alive! It really is just two records. KIM

@jasonrushton5991

Жыл бұрын

As a white 56 year old bloke, getting into what would be called HipHop iin my early teen's. Kid's today are just computer programer's playing at being DJ's, not knowing the first thing about disc spinning record's. NOT A CLUE!!

Im a New Yorker...Your the best on a list of many.....You are A STAR...For life.. The Wolfeman. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx.....May we all be as One....A New Yorker....LOVE

I grew up with all of you,, It was the projects Music that keeps me so grounded .. this means Cool Hurk or even u Grand Master ..for which I heard from K-tel tapes (cassettes ) .. I personally want say Thank You OG u know .. 4real God is one ...

Much love and respect to Grandmaster Flash, I had the honor of meeting him in 2012 in Durban South Africa.

Love you Grandmaster flash. You gave us a purpose for living. Thank you a billion times for all the pain you endured through the years to give us these musical gems.

Thank you!!! Thank you for all that yall did to carry the message that recreated the culture. We owe you and Herc everything. Peace!

Love, Peace and Respect to GrandMaster Flash, we met years ago at UZN 30th Anniv., when I was working with KRS-One and the Temple Of Hip Hop! Thank you for making this video, it's so important for US, Hiphoppas, to hear the AUTHENTIC stories of the earky years of OUR culture!! I'm really looking forward to you and Herc working together to build upon the REMARKABLE foundation you BOTH have built! We APPRECIATE you, your contributions and your continued work for Hip Hop culture, keep SHININ', Word!!!

@t.breeze8659

6 жыл бұрын

Server Tavares dope that Hip Hop scholar and philosopher Minister Serva would chime in. Respect. Flash put time and thought into this thing. It didn't just happen.

Thank you so very much Grand master! You (the innovator) giving respect to (the originator) in such a masterful and educational way! This letter touched my heart! Prayerfully it will reach DJ Kool Herc! Peace honor and salute to you Grand Master!!!

thank you for this Grandmaster Flash. i hope in my heart your message reaches Herc, and that he reaches back with similar love and respect.

Learned from listening to his technique way back in the 1980s.

This was dope!! He shouted out all of the legends from then to now! Great presentation brotha!!

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, perfectly documents, solid as cement, yes, thank you GMF. PEACE, LOVE UNTIY TO ALL THE FOR FATHERS...

This is beautiful!!! I feel every resonant 🔊 sound loop.. Thank You.

I appreciate you so much Flash, as far as i’m concerned you’re the founder of hip hop because you created the bar system ( Looping ) on the wheels of steel, thank you 🔥💯🔥

@user-hx8zm4fe4q

8 ай бұрын

No he didn't music engineers did all those things before him. He did Not create anything

Thank you for this GMF. This means a whole lot to our culture.

Thank you both. keep catching those breaks

Thankyou GM Flash, you and Herc will always be our Godfathers, my DEEPEST respect, Southside of Chicago, 95th Street, LETS GET IT!!!

#Salute This warms my heart something crazy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This is an absolute display of the technical greatness that is our Hip-Hop. Life is too short, hopefully y'all clear the air.

Thank you 🙏, flash 4 all you done , you are a Genius, with what you have done , with what you had to work with

Kids don't get it it may not be exactly on the one (on Beat) every time but NOBODY was doing it before Herc, Flash, and Theodore and it changed how we listen to hip hop for the rest of our lives!

Reading his book, I give him crazy major props!

SHOUTOUT TO GRANDMASTER FLASH FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH ONE LOVE FOR REAL HIPHOP FOREVER

Thank you for your creativity:) Dj Kool Herc & Grandmaster Flash 🎼

THANK YOU! I WIILL NEVER DISRESPECT EAST COAST RAP AND HIP HOP OR R AND B EVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE . DJS I ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AND YOUR INFLUENCE ON WHAT MUSIC SHAPED MY IN 96 BY THE AGE OF 10 . MY FAULT

@thomascaldwell6586

4 жыл бұрын

Flash thanks for elevatng this concept Herc started because if not hip hop would not exist period. Its the music that grabs you to start grooving poplocking. Etc. This artform is not easy to do. Its levels to this. Having a broad knowledge of music is key !!!! Now is where the technical aspect plays big!!! If you can bring all this music together to where you shift the crowd any which way then u will forever have a following and constant work. All people want to do is dance. One nation under a groove!!!!!

Grandmaster, thank you for keeping the art and the spirit in which the art was born Alive.

I like how he first acknowledged his education and learned skill set. He acknowledges that this allowed him to create more in top of what had already been done. Great vid.

Grandmaster love your work please put beaside everything and get in touch with kool herc, life is too short to be apart-

Thank you grand master for the inspiration

wasn't even thought of until the 90's yet i find myself watching this and your apache bongo cut almost daily lol

Dj Disco King Mario had echo chamber and all the equipment he’s talking about first!!

@ray1love1

3 жыл бұрын

No kool bec had it first

Thank you both for bringing us Hip Hop.

I thought Mario had an echo chamber first

@djpioneer937

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Mario and dj Kool d had the echo chamber first

Big respect too the originals and thank you for the art. Respect the technique.

wonderful class act.. In the mid seventies I started dj'ing, 75 to be exact.. Mixing fascinated me, so holding songs on beat I mastered, but extending breaks (looping), was paramount.. Flash is a pioneer, a student, an innovator, and one who inspires..I would travel from Long Island to my cousins in the Bronx to hear you at Mitchell gym, Mott Haven projects.. You also inspired me to dig for breaks and beats, and unheard of.. Thanks for paving the way.. I have been blessed with the innate ability to mix the most challenging records seamlessly..We'll collaborate real soon..

It’s a shame you only have 26k on here bro you’re a legend and people my generation to recognize real legends

Love you Flash. Long live the king Grandmaster Flash.

I needed this.

Grandmaster Flash! Living GENIUS!!! Wow!

Hip Hop is the most amazing form of creativity in music

Each one teach one to the fullest! Hip Hop Love

Classics played with style!

Grandmaster Flash is a legend! A true genius creator and pioneer of turtablism and hip hop. Loved watching this video and everything said is 100.

This is art.... brua 🎧.it comes from within

I thank gmf for teaching me.i watch his videos and i learn a ton of moves...including quick mix theory..THANK U FLASH...

This is off the chain!💪

MAD RESPECT TO THIS

Thank you God Father! Thank you Kool Herc, thank you Bambaata and thank you GM⚡

That intro was so emotional.

This is one of the most important videos I've ever seen.

amazing so much love from us in the uk too . dj breaks for life x

F L A S H ,flash 4 times hit hit,hithitboomp boom boom boom.Man you the M A N.RESPECT,TEACHER.Thank you,:) as you are the greatest.I have always wanted to :* but could not afford to but just the other day I bought my first turntable.I'm 56 years old and just wanted to play some vinyl and do something I have always wanted to do.Thanks again for the inspiration.Hope I get there.Going for the mixer, next.

thanx for teaching the truth....legendary

THIS IS SO BADASS!!! FRONT DOOR! RED ALERT!!! That was amazing! I'm not even a DJ and I could see how badass that was!

Thank you for Hip-Hop and being PE#1 of the home. I was the Black Sheep of the House for electronics!! A closed ear kills the mind, an Open ear grows the mind. Let's Keep Growing!!

Man this was legendary!

Salute to Herc for laying the Breakbeat base (Merry Go Round) and Flash for elevating it (plus all the others who've added on to HipHop culture)! I swear Flash is like HipHop's 1st sonic scientist and engineer lol. Does anyone know the 3rd to whom Flash is referring? Thanks and PEACE

@cooliegee

6 жыл бұрын

Afrika BamBaaTaa

@MikeAllHipHop

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Wasn't sure since he isn't dead... PEACE

@hiphop101BX

6 жыл бұрын

he is not dead but exiled bad stain on the art form, do your own research on that.

@MikeAllHipHop

6 жыл бұрын

Ok. Thanks!

@hiphop101BX

6 жыл бұрын

I agree and I still respect his contribution but I am not looking to go to a Zulu anniversary or supporting anything Zulu as they have not handled there business internally. I know mad long Time Bronx Zulus who broke away to start something fresh and new they are heart broken over the fact of no real regime change. He did a lot for hip hop and I will never forget that he always be mentioned, you just wont see him any more. he left a lasting impression beat wise...

My love of music is so deep....what you guys did was give so so many DJ's like me the opportunity to eat my man....In order to advance in life u must Understand where you came from. Thanks for Lighting that fire in me to become better.

Greatest DJ Mix of all time - GMF on the wheels of steel . PERIOD. Hail GrandMasterFlash

Much love grandmaster from Australia.

Flash, fantastic video. This is coming from a 70s baby who was enveloped by this music and led me to spinning as a teen. Would you consider doing a "mixtape" of you half and double timing over those classic 70s grooves, an anthology of sorts if one doesn't already exist. Thank you for setting the foundation for what hip hop was and what it has led to. Kudos sir

Thank you Sir.

Much respect!girls love the way he spins. Djays want to be like him.

thank you Grandmaster flash ❤

Love you Grandmster🙏🏽

Amazing

Flash I admire u man I jus watched Get Dwn n man I must say it was very interesting shout out to the olschool

How can you NOT mention D.J. Breakout who had the very first female M.C. Sha-Rock. He ranks # 4 of the Godfathers of The Bronx D.J’s. Before there was Herc it was King Mario. #Boggie Down 4Life

GM Flash blessed by the Creator to have a purpose in life. Clear reason to be here. Amazing. Never took the time to pay attention to his contributions. I’m embarrassed by this. Glad I know now.

Nicca said all the names but MARIO

Thank you

Thank you OG!!!

Tak tohle už je nestárnoucí klasika. Dříve, někdy v 90. letech v dokumentu-looking for a perfect beat 💓💓💓Já hi viděl snad stokrát.

I grew up listening to your music, your a legend 😎

@bigolbabyhuey

4 жыл бұрын

Grandmaster Flash had little to nothing to do with almost none of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's recordings. In fact their biggest hit, 'The Message', Flash nor the Furious 5 were on it, except Melle Mel who did the last verse that started "A Child Is Born With No State Of Mind..." That song was written and mostly performed by Duke Bootie aka Edward Fletcher

@DannyGouchi

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigolbabyhuey Really I did not know that, I remember Melle Mel, so many years have past and many new genres have popped up since i barely remember names of artist from back then, still love Frankie knuckles tears full frequancy records, my favorate tune from that era.

Facts stated by Grandmaster Flash. Respect to Kool Herc for what he planted and it was to play the get down part. Flash added to this by inventing to seemlessly extend the get down part as long as a dj wanted to on beat. I myself witnessed Herc in the streets and also witnessed Flash in the streets back in 1977 in the Boogie down Bronx where I grew up in. Peace & Love to both of these legendary DJays.

@pvj2234

Жыл бұрын

Mad love Dj Louielo! And I always thought you were from Brooklyn or Queens. What part of the Boogie Down are you from? I saw plenty of Flash as a kid, but never got to see Herc, always heard of him, seen the herculoids, but too young for Herc himself. I always assumed he was similar to flash. Was he? Both legends, but was one clearly better than the other? Or about the same? Old cats used to talk about Herc like he was 7 feet tall with 6 arms.

@tlarocksdaoriginodjlouielo9004

11 ай бұрын

@@pvj2234 I'm from the Boogie Down Bronx born and raised just 4 blocks away from Yankee Stadium. And yes Kool Herc is over 6 feet tall. Herc & Flash have different styles of deejaying. Flash was more the the scratching and cutting up to shreds type of deejay while Herc just blended the beat also known as the "get down" part of the song longer to party on to the extended beat part. Herc also had a system that was incredibly powerful that can only be felt in night clubs. This would also bring huge crowds to the street jams back in the 70's.

Beautiful letter!

So hype...the droning ambient hum behind Flash's ambiguous speeches is perfect, like a mastermind revealing his secret origins. "The third component" AKA Bam, plays the part of a fallen god of the big three. What will be the conclusion to this story?

@rikitikitavi7454

6 жыл бұрын

Boom Boom this shit is epic. Hip Hop Gold

Got my first hip hop cassette in 1982 aged 11. (NY v LA beats) followed by Grandmaster Melle Mel / Flash & the Furious 5 - Work Party Got my first record 1983 Kraftwerk Tour De France. Saw ULTRAMAGNETIC MCs aged 19 Saw PUBLIC ENEMY aged 20 Saw EPMD & GANG STARR aged 21 Saw TRIBE, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, BIGGIE SMALLS, JAY Z, WUTANG, MOBB DEEP, BRAND NUBIAN in my early-mid 20s Got my first Technics 1210 turntable 1993 aged 22 - still got it now aged 49 Finally got to see BIG DADDY KANE aged 43 in Lincoln City UK Saw COMMON & NAS 3 years ago Played Raphael Saadiq’s latest album Jimmy Lee yesterday (3/5/20) during lockdown Played Ghost face Killa - More Fish today 38 years of hip hop memories and still loving every minute ⏰🎤🎧⏰🎤🎧

@jasonjackson5424

3 жыл бұрын

There was no such title as grandmaster Melle Mel... It was Grandmaster Flash and the furious five; but flash, Cowboy and Raheem began that group.... Just like kool Herc and the Herculoids, Disco king Mario, Africa Bambaataa and the Zulu nation and you had the Funky Four Plus One More & Shyrock. Everyone and everything else came as branches off of those trees. St. Ann's park, Echo park, Bronx River Park... Club 371, The black door, Disco Fever, The Dixie club, T-Connection, The Sparkle, and the infamous Hebalo... Sure we countless other joints but these are what started our culture moving forward. Studio 54, the starship nor Latin quarters had anything to do with the inception of Hip-hop in the Boogie Down Bronx. 1973 forward until today 2020...

Seen a lot...Living in the Building, 1199. 168st Boston road, above the Livingston Family. There's so much credence to what Flash is saying.

Man... #RESPECT!

And that is how hip hop was born

Loved it

Greetings Grand Master, what's happening, I'm a long time fan of you and the Furious Five to include a host of old school rappers... I'm originally from Staten Island, N.Y. 45 yrs young. That's right still young... I listen to your jams as I'm driving all over the U.S. (truck driving)... just the other day my cousin & I reflected back on the old school hip hop, 80s ,90s, even early 2000's but those jams made history, the golden era (80s) Thank you & Furious Five for your talent/ music!

@barryjohnson409

5 жыл бұрын

@Marvin Bennett - what's happening Marvin, keep it safe brother. On another note, I come from a family of Bennett's out of Brooklyn, N.Y. Where are you originally from etc...?