The Rock Corridor inductee will rejoice Grandmaster Flash Day on Monday (August 4) with a 20-DJ Twitch marathon honoring his 52 years in Hip-Hop.
Grandmaster Flash will rejoice Grandmaster Flash Day on Monday (August 4) with a worldwide DJ marathon and digital celebration. Since 2023, Flash has been formally acknowledged by the Metropolis of New York Metropolis together with his personal commemorative day for his pioneering contributions to Hip-Hop and DJ tradition.
“The mayor of New York was like, ‘Flash, we’re going to provide you a plaque and your individual day,’ and I used to be like, ‘What?’ They gave me a proclamation they usually stated August 4th is Grandmaster Flash Day,” he instructed AllHipHop. “They needed me to be acknowledged for the issues that I did, the approach that I invented that introduced all of the rappers to life and different issues.”
As an alternative of one other block celebration like the primary 12 months, Grandmaster Flash is taking the celebration on-line together with his “Back2Back Raid Prepare” on Twitch. The occasion will characteristic greater than 20 DJs from throughout the globe, together with Skratch Bastid, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Icy Ice and Grandmaster Flash himself.
“Myself and a few of my good buddies who do the Raid Trains, we received collectively and stated, ‘Let’s do a Raid Prepare on August 4,’ and right here we’re,” he stated. “I like the concept of doing this as a result of it provides me an opportunity to say thanks to all of the DJs who adopted my methods and all of the producers that adopted the methods and the place it’s going.
“It’s fantastic, and the good individuals at Twitch give me my freedom to play my deep assortment. I can play stuff within the ’60s all the best way to date and no person says something.”
Broadly thought to be one of many founding fathers of Hip-Hop, Grandmaster Flash revolutionized DJing within the Nineteen Seventies by growing the Fast Combine Idea—an revolutionary technique of extending breakbeats utilizing two turntables. His groundbreaking work laid the muse for contemporary Hip-Hop manufacturing and efficiency. In 2007, he and the Livid 5 grew to become the primary Hip-Hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
“For me, it’s 52 years, you already know?” he stated. “So far as expertise is worried, it’s completely fantastic. I get to play within the sandbox once more with fashionable expertise as a result of I’m a geek. I’ve at all times beloved devices.
The “Back2Back Raid Prepare” kicks off Monday (August 4) at 4 a.m. ET and runs till midnight on Grandmaster Flash’s Twitch channel.
