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Grandmaster Flash

where it started at Sept. 17, 2020

The Timeless Honesty of Wild Style, the First Hip-Hop MovieCharlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s documentary-like film became an international cult favorite in the early 1980s. It’s just as fresh today.

By Bilge Ebiri
crime Aug. 3, 2017

Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five Arrested for MurderKidd Creole was charged with the fatal stabbing of a homeless man.

By Tolly Wright

chat room Aug. 11, 2016

So What Exactly Is ‘the Get Down’? Let Grandmaster Flash Explain“Oh shit, he took my beat and he glued it to this picture.”

By Maria Elena Fernandez
tca 2016 July 27, 2016

6 Things We Learned at Netflix’s The Get Down TCA PanelThe idea to explore this cultural and musical period occurred to Baz Luhrmann when he was sitting in a Paris restaurant ten years ago.

By Maria Elena Fernandez
party chat May 20, 2015

Baz Luhrmann on Working With Grandmaster FlashThe Flash is also a character on the show.

By Bennett Marcus
music Sept. 12, 2014

Grandmas Keep Facebook-Tagging Grandmaster FlashFacebook is like a jungle sometimes.

By Nate Jones
100 years of new york music Mar. 27, 2014

How Grandmaster Flash’s ‘Torque Theory’ Drove Hip-Hop“Everything should be controlled via the vinyl, the fingertips.”
chat room June 12, 2008

Grandmaster Flash on Hip-hop, His Memoir, and Why It’s Better to Be a Basehead Than a Crackhead’I went home and I cried, cried, cried, cried. Nobody got it! I tried to go to different clubs, get on for five or ten minutes, and I heard excuses.’