Grandmaster Flash 'The Inventor'

NEW YORK (Grtandmaster Flash Fans Website) - Grandmaster Flash and his MCs were rocking the spot more than 20 years ago in New York City. They were known as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
As a DJ, he's the granddaddy of the sound you know today as hip-hop. He was the first guy to manipulate records on turntables.

Grandmaster Flash still has game, and he was in Toronto last weekend to hold it down on the ones and twos. Fans caught up with him to find out what he thinks about the hip-hop scene today.
�I�m happy being one of the inventors of the art form along with Cool Hurk and Afrika Bambaataa. It has actually branched off into so many different types of hip-hop. The thing about being an inventor, a lot of times you can invent something and it will never get off the ground or off the drawing board.
So I�m happy with the way hip-hop is going,� said Grandmaster Flash. �I remember when I was first trying to introduce this style to the world.
So many people were like, �what is this and what is this awful noise he�s making with the record and why is he doing this, and what are they talking about?� Now it�s one of the biggest music [scenes] in the world, and journalists can no longer call it a fad.�