It was an art to be a dj with skills. I'm a dj since I was 15 I'm 51 now and still rocking the 1's and 2's.. These days with Bluetooth any body can be a dj. Make a play list and let it play there ain't no scratching or blending music any more... Much love and respect to all the DJ's keeping it real...

@kinetic97

Жыл бұрын

No Doubt, with all these cheat codes, trick-nolgy mixers,controllers.....What would they do if all that mess went out????

@tonycliniotis1509

11 ай бұрын

​@kinetic97 The technology is at our control, we produced them and so we can make anything we want including samplers, decks, PCs, laptops, equalisers, boosters, bass bins, amplifiers, speakers etc etc etc. Music will never die

@boof_jnk

11 ай бұрын

a true dj will always be taught to play with their ears, reguardless if they have a display showing bpm etc. if you are not taught that way, you aint doing much

@kinetic97

11 ай бұрын

@@boof_jnk No Doubt Bro

@mrfibuli

11 ай бұрын

Well said as 54 year old vinyl dj😎

Wanna know how great he is ? Went to a show with a friend middle of the week for the 18 Euros. The place in Hamburg called Waagebau kinda underground. He had everyone dancing for 4 hours straight. I remember the lady’s and gents half showering at the restrooms because the show was so fire.

@screweduptx512

6 ай бұрын

Thats insane

The greatest of them all. He set the standard for a cut master and his ability to keep the beat moving from one song to the next is unmatched.

Flash is like fine wine: He gets Better with age. He's embraced the evolving technologies and uses them as tools to continue building his arsenal of mad skills... therefore he will always be on top of his game no matter how he's doing things these days. All my respects to Flash and all the old-school DJs out there who Know how to Roll with da Flow. :D

Grandmaster flash, thank you so much for taking us back in time to the place in our mind when hip hop was on your mind the majority of the time. Hip hop Bx for life.

THE ONLY REASON why we have djs still around is because of this dude... its the only reason why im still a dj after some 25 years later . Id love to see him live even to be blessed to do a set with him...THE REAL Dj Phanatik

It was 1977 when I saw Flash up in The BX....Respect!!!

@yomommastupid

8 жыл бұрын

+UNCLE CEE that must have been magic...peace

@Powerule23

3 жыл бұрын

The first time I saw him was 1980. I was so excited I was literally shaking.

@sambeharry584

Жыл бұрын

Must have been an amazing experience. I’m a ‘77 baby so I just missed out. Peace to the GOD

@Grandmaster__Gee

6 ай бұрын

Fun fact i saw found grandmaster flash in 2021 haha.

This guy literally invented DJing as we know it.....he invented the slip mat.....he invented the cross fader.....and he invented the art of scratching.....And he is quick to commend people like Jazzy Jeff that do it better than he does....a living legend and class act.

@woodywoodrin8588

5 жыл бұрын

He definitely did not invent the crossfader, it already existed. Besides all of what you have mentioned, he also invented the cue system. Besides that I agree with you man!

@sarahabib8442

5 жыл бұрын

@@woodywoodrin8588 check out Hot97 Grandmaster Flash explaining the theory of DJing. He said that he took a double action single pull switch to allow him to extend the drum break. Who do you say invented it? If he's lying I want to know. Maybe I heard wrong I will watch it again myself. It's on KZread. And thanks for being respectful. Too many people don't understand that you can have an exchange of differing opinions in a respectful way. CHEERS! I await your reply...from one hip hop head to another.

@alistairdavies4715

4 жыл бұрын

Did not invent the scratch..Grand wizard Theodore did

@peteantonio1601

4 жыл бұрын

@@alistairdavies4715 dj kool hurc was doing this before flash, caz, or anybody else out here.

@alistairdavies4715

4 жыл бұрын

@@peteantonio1601 hi Pete I would check your hip hop history. Herc did not invent the scratch. Herc was the first to mix 2 records together but theodore was the first to invent scratch .

I get chills watching him work the tables!

When being a DJ was considered art.

@pankillheure

8 жыл бұрын

It's not anymore ?

@MlSCHA330

8 жыл бұрын

no

@pankillheure

8 жыл бұрын

mischa the king maybe cuz you dont know real dj but still they are tons of good one

@khalifla5990

8 жыл бұрын

Natsirt b. They're not tons of good ones... This djing is different than the expected djing these days. Its alot easier now.

@nuffflavor

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I still have 3 coffins full of vinyl. Beat matching, keeping the beats per minutes in sync, and knowing the position of each record where the breaks, pauses, other stuff is a lot harder than punching two songs on a laptop and have the software do the work for ya ! :D

The lord of the turntables, the master of crash, is the one's lord master with three turntables and the best Dj in entire world is my brother Grandmaster Flash's and he still rocking the master of the destruction I love you brother and God Bless you 🙏🙏🙏

0:35 lemme just move this trash out of your way sir

I'm 59 yrs. Old!!! But don't get it twisted this shit right here took me back!!!!!!;

Growing up in the BX watching our Hip Hop culture evolve made me who I am today.

@scottjohnson713

4 жыл бұрын

So your in jail ..lol

@Humble-iq5ue

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottjohnson713 the record labels killed hip hop and destroyed the conscious message and replaced it with negativity.

@IAMHIPHOP974

Жыл бұрын

@@Humble-iq5ue except Hip Hop Lives

I remember having BBQ's and block parties as we listen to flash and watched crews battle. good times.

This was a real treat to see ....love yah Flash you we're all we had for a famous DJ growing up in the 80s ......🎧🎛👍✌

I hope Grandmaster Flash never dies. He's my DJ Hero :D

I can remember the Latin Quarters rocking this all night long this man is truly legendary to hip hop without this man the culture would missed out on a huge part of it. MUCH RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!

0:34 Nobody: Slowly removes laptop. Flash don't need none of this

@DJSt3rling

5 жыл бұрын

@@malcolmthatruufedwards537 i literally complimented Flash on his technique? Maybe you're confused.

@malcolmthatruufedwards537

5 жыл бұрын

Dj St3rling oh ok, my fault bro, I'll retract that lol ✊

@malcolmthatruufedwards537

5 жыл бұрын

Dj St3rling even though there's mistakes here and there, this brings back so many memories. Real talk, I remember when Grandmaster Flash and the furious five, Charlie Chase, Grand Master Caz and others came to Cali when I was stationed at Fort Irwin back in the 80s. I really wanted to battle Flash back then, not as a disrespect, but as a pupil who came up under him, wanting to pay homage. Back then when we battled it wasn't about disrespect, at least not ask the time. I've krewed up with some of the katz I battled. Yea, those were the days. Flash is having fun, and he's getting some rightfully deserved cash, because back then they weren't paying like they are today, so I'm glad to see the PIONEERS getting a piece of the pie. Real talk.

@DJSt3rling

5 жыл бұрын

@@malcolmthatruufedwards537 it's all love fam.

@mrsoshadabaadman

4 жыл бұрын

He uses both though serato and vinyl, but when he's playing overseas he takes his laptop. Cause you don't want to pay 5000 bucks for extra luggage.

Jospeh Saddler, Grandmaster Flash, is an icon. Period. He's an an inspiration. He's like the Miles Davis on the turntables

GrandMaster Flash's skills still remain 80's like...No Shade!

@pikachu-qm1nf

4 жыл бұрын

You mean 70s

@thekid26000

4 жыл бұрын

@@pikachu-qm1nf No I said 80's

Grade A ,Top Shelf selections out the crate Flash, wish I coulda been there!!!

@UNDERGROUNDskateco

Жыл бұрын

The old school VintageHipHopSeattle joint up in this

I was lucky enough to see him live in London back when - He was Faster & Meaner! Serious Business. Thanx for this, you've made an old man happy....

Love him since 1984 old but gold - peace to all ya from germany

REAL HIP HOP FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW🎶🎶🎶🎶🔊🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@doom4157

3 жыл бұрын

Fr

@doom4157

3 жыл бұрын

@The Underground Evolution Of Hip Hop TV tru tru

@doom4157

3 жыл бұрын

@The Underground Evolution Of Hip Hop TV good shit, just subscribed

This...THIS RIGHT HERE..Is where it ALLLLL STARTED!!! 2 Turntables and a mic...yeah a mixer and speakers will help too but you get it.

homeboy.... killed it back in the day and every day..... damn i miss those days growing up in Nyc.... boogie down... breakin.... chillin... groovin.... poping... spinning.... everything was "fresh" and "dope"....... never forget the best days of my life.....

I like how the dude quietly closes the laptop and slips it away. It’s like watching a magician prove that there are no shenanigans, just pure magic.

Flash was the realest of them all especially back in the days a real dj with fast cuts in crazy skills salute to the greatest in still nice thank you brother flash God bless you

Thank you God for letting me grow up in the Bronx and witness how hip hop was created its crazy how much talent the black man and woman have .. its not crazy it's real

This is pure magic bro !

wow.... the foundation of hip hop as we know it. honored to be here!! Mad Respect to the KING of hip hop. Go Flash Go Flash 👊

Thumbs up if you too are looking for the crayon marks.

@joshuaverwey2335

8 жыл бұрын

you can see them though

@cliffordescott

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@TyhlerNovac

7 жыл бұрын

Pen's some times.. had original Rapper's Delight on 12" with a 15 minute rap 4 MC's

@treybands881

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Acosta lmao u stupid

@djk0n3x0

7 жыл бұрын

QMoneyBags wot?

respect! thank you Foundation Elders for making the break so cosmic and powerful.. took us from the rubble to bubble

Lovely E. I could listen to this all day.💯💯💯💯

Tha man who single handedly changed music forever and created a genre that is now unstoppable all over tha world.... I jus watched ur tutorial back in 83' from The Cutting Edge and then clicked on this... Crazy how much ur "discotheque " idea has changed tha world... and u still showin mfs tha skillz on tha wheels of steel!

no pushing of buttons here,its pure skill,hand made and not by computer

Nice, having flashbacks as a youngster.

FLASH IS SUCH A HUMBLE BROTHER GOD BLESS. Bronx Love 183 this is our Rock and andvroll if u 58 years old and from thebzbronx Underground Hip hop Light skin Rican will always love this Birth respect to TBB crew Rocksteady crew that's who I was around can't forget CC crew and Starchild la Rock Peace Light skin Rican Two cultures Love my Puertorican culture as well.Thats how it is when your from Crotona Ave Bronx NewYork Orchard Beach was our Play Ground 58 strong

THAT'S WHY A DJ TODAY, DOESN'T REALLY NEED TO BE CALL, A DJ. THIS IS WHAT A DJ IS ALL ABOUT. REAL THING, NOT FAKE, NOT DOWNLOADING FROM INTERNET, KZread, AND ESPECIALLY, NOT COPYING OTHERS MUSICS, CUTTING NUMBERS, ALBUMS, SONGS, ETC, ETC..... THE WORST PART IS THAT THEY GET RECOGNITIONS, CAUSE THEY WORK AT CERTAIN RADIOS STATIONS. I'M A DJ FROM OLD SCHOOL AND I LEARN FROM OTHERS, CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO, BACK THEN. NOW, IT'S A COMPETITION OF WHO YOU KNOW TO GET YOU ON A RADIO STATIONS, GIG OR EVERYWHERE. SAD PART IS, THEY CAN'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, NEVER. UNLESS THEY COPY, SOMEBODY. NOT TO MANY ORIGINAL. SOMEBODY ASK ME FOR A TRIAL TO SEE AND THEY WANT ME TO BRING, ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC THAT I TRY TO GET ON ORIGINAL CD'S, SO THEY CAN RECORD THEM. I TOLD THEM: "YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR MY COLLECTIONS. I TOLD THEM, YOU EVEN HAVE SOME CD'S THAT I RECORD FOR A FRIEND AND YOU RECORD THAT, FROM HIM. THAT'S THE REASON THAT I DON'T COPY TO NOBODY, MY COLLECTIONS.

No f’ing visual mark. You gotta be able to hear to keep it on beat. Yeah, no buttons or colors!!! Big ups to you!!! Thank you for being so dedicated to figuring out your gift, your art and teaching it to us all!!!

Dj flash is a legend, One of the best of all time, WORD UP!

A party ain't a party, until you hear FREEDOM.

The flyest DJ and the fastest DJ in the world. Lives right here in New York baby., And you can believe that yeah. Yeah

Grandmaster Flash is the greatest Dj that ever Lived.... Awesome 👍👍👍

Grandmaster Flash Was Truly My Biggest Influence and Inspiration In Becoming A Mix Master Style DJ at An Early Age! Supa Dupa Respect To The Legendary DJ Flash!!!

@malcolmthatruufedwards537

5 жыл бұрын

Chili-Bo Official TV FACTS!!! I was the same, back in 78 , grandmaster flash, red alert, stretch Armstrong & bobito, DJ Barry, DJ breakout, cash money aka krazy kill(it's uh Philly thing, not many know that name, he considered that name at a time we all used to get together in North Philly at my Bwoy Ice's crib, we'd hit tha basement, set up our tables an go in, those were tha days of Parry P, later adding tha corner Boyz) Jeff aka jazzy, kid flash, cosmic kev, and a host of others, but, the main name making waves on the larger scale was the grandest of them all, GRANDMASTER FLASH

@ChiliBoOfficialTV

3 жыл бұрын

@@malcolmthatruufedwards537 Yeah Those Pure Vinyl Days Were The Dopest! We Were So Hungry In The Old Days That We Were Rockin' Component Set Style Turntables And Had Perfected The "Volume" Knob As The Fader! 😂 By The Time I Got Technic 1200s and A "Realistic" Mixer (Old School Radio Shack 😂) I Was A Beast! Back In The Day You Used Whatever You Could Get Your Hands On! Hip Hop Was Fun And Original! Good Times! 🔥🔥🔥

When the DJ was the most important thing in a crew.

@killakarl73

10 жыл бұрын

The birth place of hip hop/rap music.

@diva14701

10 жыл бұрын

oh yea

@davidgerman

10 жыл бұрын

Yes in the beginning

I love this brotha I been loving him since 1980. The feeling will never change. u got my Utmost respect flash.

Any of yall watch The Get Down

@oggamer346

8 жыл бұрын

yuuuh shit was. dope

@_akhii9927

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's the shit

@themidnighttoke9965

8 жыл бұрын

Yo that was as dopest as could be

@AsiaThinks

8 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Masterpiece.. I mean yes, I have.

@Ganqes

8 жыл бұрын

hell, dopest ever...just watched BBC Once Upon a Time in New York and ended up here, also spended alot time with my vinyl collection after the get down=D

The dopest, sick, illest hiphop technician!!!

This is djspazyb from Peoria Illinois but moved to Clearwater Florida 7 years ago and just found out you are coming too Largo Florida art center on February 7 2020 and would love to go but I got to work my 3rd shift wish it was either Saturday or Sunday ty one of my best djs in the world

I think I'm still in the 80's lol just listen to the way the get down I love it old skool never gets old very good jams 💯💯

@argnaldoferreira4219

4 жыл бұрын

Muito bom

@argnaldoferreira4219

4 жыл бұрын

Ola brasil

The get down brought me here but that crazy beat matching and scratching made me stay...

flash is fast.. flash is fast!

This is that music we use to break dance too.. Remember the cardboard?? LOL.. Brings back the good days..much love..

He is the reason I started scratching 🙏🏾🎧

@Adnan-ix5ng

3 жыл бұрын

he is the reason for dj jazzy jeff, dj scratch, dj cut creator to start scratching

Great beginning this was the fullest and days of hiphop mixes.

"wtf's this computer doin up here, get that shit outta here!!!"

@RealSergiob466

4 жыл бұрын

Let me guess Serato DVS system

he gave birth to all dj's . jazzy jeff, dj scratch.dj cut creator, bobcat etc

Im so blessed and eternally greatful to be a part of the Old skool era...so glad. Thank you GMF and the rest of MY pioneers.............

MY MAN FLASH IS MAD NICE

@misscommentarycleveland7142

5 жыл бұрын

Still great my Bru-THA

👍👍 the one and only one GRANDMASTER FLASH!!!!!

What else than vinyl.. you are the great grandmaster of the grandmasters i love you for ever ❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful to see the Master at work doing what he loves!!!! Thank you GMF for sharing your love!!!!!

THE CRAYON

@reginaldtaylor4122

6 жыл бұрын

Respect the architect. The Innovator on the crossfader.

A real craftsman at work !!!! I would like to see todays laptop-DJ:s follow this. This is the real deal. Two turntables and a microphone , a mixer and a PA-system. Top it of with the records of your choice and BLAST-OF !!!! I really would have wanted to be at this gig.

@DjR3aper

5 жыл бұрын

We could but Here's the thing, even jazzy Jeff rocks with a laptop now

@djavsdjavs

5 жыл бұрын

@@DjR3aper agree. Things have evolved no more carrying records. And gunna be frank his technique aint aged well. Jazzy jeff on the other hand adapts

@tombstoneharrystudios584

Жыл бұрын

@@djavsdjavs he INVENTED those movies that we all learn and adapt to our own style DJing is 90% keeping the audience dancing & hyped, 10% super chops

back to my roots...i´m so happy to remember the music that i hear were i´m was a little boy...the message...1980´s hits.This is music!!!!! saludos de sde oaxaca mexico...recuerdo esta musica que la escuchaba en KHQT 97.7,KSOL,K101,KWSS,KMEL...PPPPPOOOOWWWWERRRR!!!SALUDOS grand master flash dj...te admiramos mucho aca en mexico...tu eres la raiz de este movimiento...felicidades....congratulations hommie god bles!!!

Seems he doesn’t need a laptop. Legend.

Glad you sent me this video and I found you on the tube, I will be checking in a lot more often, maybe we can do an exclusive on BlackTree TV!!, lets make it happen. Peace, Love and vinyl.....

Cut it up my bro! Long live Da Bronx!!!!!!!!!!

This Brother invented the ( cross fader) mixer!!!! Every Mixer company owe this man!!!

I still consider this a kind of magic. ❤❤❤

that part a 1:13 is my favorite

Back when djing was a real job!!😂😂

@DJB635

2 жыл бұрын

Word!

Thanks for your contribution to music, and hip-hop

No computers..... just raw talent

@pk7ghalm23

5 жыл бұрын

Nigga there's a computer in between the turntables lmmfaoooooo

Dam the penny on the needle!!!!! I use to see Flash live in Harlem, I would be 5 feet away watching him rock, and he use to kill it. this gave me goose bumps!

@Dina_Darling

2 жыл бұрын

I used to see him at The Fever. You always knew when got on the turntable. Flash is one of a kind!

u done know flash, nuff respect an love

Hi Mr dj. You are my favorit dj and band funk hip hop for ever. Think u soo mush for your music and art .awesome.

amazing as Always. thanks 4 posting < 3

4:00 the woman from Aint Nobody got time for that

@treybands881

7 жыл бұрын

Ravi Silva lmaooooooooo 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂😂

@armv7-m603

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, oh my damn!

@Roscoewade369

6 жыл бұрын

Sweet Brown!!!!!

@digi_tv

6 жыл бұрын

@Ravi.. U STOOOOPID fa that one 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 LMAO

@karlmeadows4986

5 жыл бұрын

Chaka khan

1:47 where this riff's from?

@thedesignersmust

3 жыл бұрын

Freedom Get Up And Dance

We use to get lost going to 63! But we learned eventually Lololololol

You bring me to be a Dj...thanks for everything... 👊

Someone stole your computer btw 0:34 lol

@Stanhawk500

8 жыл бұрын

+Pure Bred Bass looool

@DiegoPereiradelemos

8 жыл бұрын

Grandmaster dont need it HAHAHA

@BenGilman

8 жыл бұрын

XD XD

@Ivan_Fdez

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@matadorzx1

8 жыл бұрын

very racist though

Vinyl is the best sound to ever touch a turntable.

@tenebrissubterra4596

4 жыл бұрын

@DJ GodsOwn Despite the comment you're responding to being 6 years old, that was a fuckin fabulous replie.

Saw him play live today. Great party 🔥👍😀

That's what you call confidence with the format of vinyl. The cue backs, raw scratching, just blowing up the spot, no pussyfooting.

None greater than flash !

BARBADOS STAND UP-Grandmaster flash was born in BARBADOS!

@duronbryant9463

7 жыл бұрын

matthew clarke your right

Thank you very much for sharing, high quality preforming

How I miss those times. This is EPIC!!

yasssssssssssssss my teenage years 🌚👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍

The Get Down

@fidelfatel

8 жыл бұрын

I hope you knew him before it

@INTshyt

8 жыл бұрын

he probably didn't.

@xXxERICxXx8

8 жыл бұрын

oddly enough when i was in the 7th grade there was a reading assignment in a textbook about grandmaster flash. i didnt know hiphop from rap

@TyhlerNovac

7 жыл бұрын

The Difference in my opinion is.... Rap is UnStructured Words Wrapped in A loop. mostly untalented People.. hip-hop is a underground Movement made main stream . by record labels such as Legendary Def Jam And Arista hip hop tells stories and is articulate writing told with a Rhyme and ........

THE USE OF PLASTIC BY THIS CAT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!! FLASH IS UP THERE IN AGE AND ROCKS LIKE HE DID FIRST COMING UP!!!!

@ 2:25 years and years of experience dealing with adverse conditions allow him to recover as if this wasn't about to become a show stopping catastrophe. simply amazing!

The Olmec head of Hip-Hop

DA NEED 4 SPEED! PERFORM FLASH!

I got here from watching starcraft 2 videos that involve the player "flash" and grandmaster league. I'm pretty glad my love of starcraft took me here.

Love you Grand Master Flash!♡ Gorgeous, raw & cool.