This video was recorded on a VHS tape by me in 1998. It's from Hip Hop Week on MTV. I do not own any of the content contained within this video, however I do own the VHS tape that the recording resides on.
This Hip Hop week on MTV was the reason i asked my mom to buy me turntables! This one moment in history changed the direction of my entire life and i'm thankful for it! 19 years later and i'm still rocking the decks and i'll never give em up!
Wow, I remember when I taught JMJ that routine while we were in Germany when I was 19 years old in 1988. RIP JMJ & Salute to The Greatest of them all Grandmaster Flash!!!! DJ Scratch (EPMD)
Ooooh... I've seen your exhibition in a very very big show in Rome: Derk B, Public Enemy and RUN DMC? Do you Remember! I WAS THERE!!! Thanx for all, Scratch! Respect!
This was my time when I was around 16 - 17 years old and back then we always showed love to the ones who paved the way, we never called them "old heads" and whatever else. Young at the time we had much respect for the old school 💯💯💯
A significant advancement in DJing that may not seem to be was when someone decided to rotate the decks 90 deg. I remember mixing with both on one side.
IMHO, JMJ was a humble and titanic DJ. When Run and D. said that "He's on his way to be best DJ in the U.S. of A," it may have sounded like a cheap rhyme, but at that time J WAS the best DJ in the U.S. of A. R.I.P. J.
1rst taste of Hip-Hop was Jay's cuts on Here We Go, been a fiend since. Growing up on Hip-Hop made me. R.I.P. Jam Master Jay Props Grandmaster Flash, still kickin it. #Love #Respect #Peace @NagUK101 World Wide Connect
You grew up in hip hop and Jay's cuts were the best????? Guess you never heard of DJ Cheese, Marley Marl, Chuck Chillout, Kool DJ Red Alert, no I'll break here that's enough for you to look up
You don't have to be a hardcore Hip Hop head to understand & feel the power & artistry here. Flash & JMJ? Puer genius & experience rocking even the pop MTV the crowd.
Y'all have no idea how many times I've watched this and I still tear up I missed this era so freaking bad. I just finished watching Run DMC perform hit it run on Soul Train and I still tear up every time I see this this was the Pinnacle of Hip Hop and what it meant to people that wanted something greater. There will never ever be another error like this
i thought the room was going to explode from exposure to PURE AWESOMENESS. Man.. i grew up in this era Grandmaster flash and the furious five and Run DMC it was an absolute pleasure to watch this and a cool trip down memory lane, my only regret is that it wasn't a longer video this is cool shit
naw you grew up in the right era. Let me tell you, when Flash started doing this in the 70s he broke every single rule a DJ was suppose to follow. He let you hear the queue up which is the scratches you hear from the discs.. you weren't suppose to do that. you weren't suppose to scratch the record like that. he was the only person on Earth when he started this.. this dude broke conventional thinking. More than likely you wouldn't have been in the right place at the right time, with the right frame of mind (Non-mainstream).. cuz the mainstream in his hood rejected him. no clubs wanted him because he scratched the records he touched the records, he let the audience hear the queue up.. Grandmaster Flash is an outlier and anyone alive in The Bronx in the late 70s who were fans or into this were all outliers too.
Happy birthday Jam Master Jay. I bet you're getting funky on the wheels of steel made out of solid gold up in heaven. God bless you my brother. I'll be seeing you.
Fantastic bro...I like me so much The Grandmaster Flash ...I have de mx THE MESSAGE ORIGINAL 82 version and many albums ...congratulations man...greetings DJ Julius...
Anybody know what’s the name of that drop Grandmaster flash did at the end of his set, It’s also on the self-destruction track, it comes right after D-Nice verse.
Hi thank you for the reply, but the Bongo Band is the second. I was refering to the vocal one that GMF scratches at the very beginning and later on let it play and has this old school funk vibe ;-)
It doesn't matter who wins. To me, these two guys are doing the things they loved the most and that's what missing in today's music. Everybody is just doing it for the money. Nobody is doing it for the love of Hip-Hop. We got to bring this back, or Hip-Hop is going to die, if it hasn't died already.
