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Grandmaster Flash
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 1
,
1958
Go
Me
People
Together
Who
You
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I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.
Grandmaster Flash
Money
Country
Dubai
Hot
Go
Lot
Want
Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.
Grandmaster Flash
World
Rest
Country
Neighbourhood
City
Go
After
Then
Your
Mantra
Conquer
Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
Grandmaster Flash
Girl
Teens
Kids
Hormones
Stayed
Something
Date
Mischievous
Around
Bedroom
Go
Normal
Jumping
Want
Your
Search
Things
My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time.
Grandmaster Flash
Work
Time
Respect
Father
First
Incredible
Teenager
Back
Kid
System
Touch
Inspiration
Had
He
Stereo
Because
Came
Go
Up
Anyway
Gained
Turntable
Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.
Grandmaster Flash
Me
Perfect
He
Instrumental
Disco
Does
Still
Doing
His
Very
Craft
Rolls
Different
Places
Clubs
Different Places
Helping
Now
Thing
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
Grandmaster Flash
Music
Together
Listening
Parents
Before
Older
Living
Back
Teens
Spent
Kid
Out
Bronx
Nerdy
Taking
Putting
Most
How
Items
Quiet
Sisters
Apart
Room
Them
Worked
Electrical
Figure
Four
Played
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
Grandmaster Flash
You
Listening
Will
Record
Know
How
How Many Times
Go
Mathematically
Times
Scratch
Certain
Certain Things
Many
Enhance
Things
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
Grandmaster Flash
You
Creative
Writing
Record
Disturb
Record Company
Any
Public
Your
Company
Flow
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
Grandmaster Flash
Creative
Become
Diminished
Hop
Constrained
Hip
Hip-Hop
Real
Juices
Been
Flows
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
Grandmaster Flash
You
Song
Recording
Press
Compose
Write
Had
Songs
Studio
Takes
Hours
Go
Up
Scratch
Just
Just One
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
Grandmaster Flash
Waiting
Wait
Type
Back
Out
Jock
Record
Put
Blending
Go
Mixing
Off
Then
Next
Needle
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
Grandmaster Flash
Own
Down
Other
Our
Hop
Responsible
Lay
Point
Point Of View
Throwing
Particular
Come
Verbal
Hip
Hip-Hop
Continue
Rocks
Should
View
Each
Growth
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.
Grandmaster Flash
Try
Stage
Fighting
Think
Other
Out
Only
Take
Perform
Gotta
Stop
Should
Each
Rift
Amongst
I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.
Grandmaster Flash
Love
Had
Kool
Breakout
Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.
Grandmaster Flash
Home
People
Hotels
Front
Being
Different
Fun
Shows
Away
Playing
I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
Grandmaster Flash
Car
Big
Bass
Abandoned
Guts
Put
Make
Pig
Lots
Asked
Speakers
If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.
Grandmaster Flash
Me
People
Fly
Pay
Willing
Collection
Promoter
Record
Always
Heard
Anywhere
Really
Team
Growing
Play
Vinyl
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