RARE "Grandmaster Flash & The 4 MCs " 12/23/1978 (Part 1/3) 

Group, song title (year) Fatback Band, “Fatbackin’ ” (1973) Brooklyn Dreams, “Music, Harmony and Rhythm” (1977) Gaz, “Sing Sing” (1978) Manzel, “Space Funk” (1977) [spun backwards] Dynamic Corvettes, “Funky Music Is the Thing” (1975) Duke Williams and the Extremes, “Chinese Chicken” (1973) All Dyrections, “On Top Of It” (1973) Pleasure, “Let’s Dance” (1976) John Davis and the Monster Orchestra, “I Can’t Stop” (1976) David Matthews, “Main Theme from Star Wars” (1977) The Blackbyrds, “Blackbyrds Theme” (1974) Time 0:01-0:53 0:54-4:56 4:57-9:23 9:24-11:08 11:09-13:30 13:31-15:30 15:31-19:08 19:09-22:09 22:10-26:22 26:23-28:59 29:00-29:34

Those of us who were prviledged to have grown up in this late 70's very early 80's era and have witnessed first hand all this being created were very lucky. Thanks for posting.

I was @ this Party, we played with Kool DJ AJ featuring STAR-SKI.....Kool DJ Dee & his Brother TYRONE the MIXOLIGIST!!!

I love how Flash kept those drum loops going and going and going.. There it is, a drum, a bassline, and an MC, its like the birth of all urban and dance music.

i'm 51 yrs this past May 31..was living on 1889 Sedgewick Ave. Bx,NY was there from the beginning with KOOL HERC ,The Hievealo,Savoy Ballroom,Disco Fever and all dat!!!

Most People Don't respect or even know the people who laid the Groundwork.

I Lived and Breathed this tape in 1978 I was 14 years old freshman in high school played it every day moms used to say turn that shit off and look at hip hop now

Who’s here for this beauty in 2021⚡️

Amazing how fresh this sounds. I mean, you're obviously gonna know it's not from this year, but it sounds nearly the same as golden age hip hop from ten or fifteen years later (maybe with a few more "and you don't stop"s). Crazy to think this is from the era of bellbottoms and disco. I think a lot of it is that this kind of stuff didn't make it onto record at the time it was first appearing, at least not that most people were able to hear. When a hip hop record came out, it was usually playing over a live band, then later drum machines and synthesizers with a few record scratches thrown in. Unless you were hip enough to be seeing it live when it happened, or got your hands on some underground recordings, you didn't get to hear this stuff. Hip hop on record didn't sound like this, with all the funk loops and samples, until the mid- to late 80s. But once it did, it's crazy how unchanged it remained, clear down to sampling 70s music.

1978.... Let that sink in.

been listening to hip hop since 1979 down in southern jersey. when mel, kool moe dee, love bug starsky, flash, cool herc, grand master theodore and the list goes on had know idea of what there impact was going to be in the music industry the same industry that dismissed it as a fad back then.

I love the fact that GM Flash was cutting up these beats before they were sampled.

This was the night of my 14th birthday. I was at a theater earlier that day watching Christopher Reeve in "Superman I."

Please put more of these on here the true birth of hip hop more of the east coast gods

THE GRAND MASTER BOO NASTY!!!

The REAL founding fathers of hip hop. Cool Herc, Grandmaster Caz, Flash and Bambatta. No Sugarhill Gang bullshit!!

Flash is the reason that I started cutting. ..

I had This On A Maxell Tape and Played It Till It Popped @ 11 yrs old

I recommend reading ''last night a DJ saved my life'' to see what happened before this to make it happen. Some of you may be surprised. It definitly filled some of the jigsaw pieces for me.

This is fucking amazing...1978? It almost makes everything that came after seem like posers in comparison.

I was 11 and this is how a jam sounded at the park,community center and we called it jam b4 it became hip hop

I was in the Navy stationed out in San Diego when this came out. I heard it in 1979 when my Brooklyn homeboys gave me a copy. Shout out EZ-D, Sal, Pipe, Tony D, Hands Down, Larue, Ray, Black Ed & all the Vamp Crew that came out to San Diego from NYC.

WOW!!!!!! I am so glad someone kept and can share these classic tapes with the world...GOOD JOB BROTHER!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Proud to be an old school head :-)

notice how this touches your soul instantly

OMG what Legends =))) thanks for uploading!

love that transition at 0:53. Flash was ahead of his time, so were the MCs

thank you for putting this on!

this is so fresh still 30 years later

Notice how the emcees can make corrections on the fly for any slightly off beat or needle jumps cutz.

35th Anniversary of this record, and I discovered it today. Thanks for posting.

Wow! This really brings me back. I can SMELL the era. Hip-hop was so intoxicating. I recall my heartbeat increasing as I walked closer to a park jam or party. Those were the days - British Walkers, Lees, mock necks, Spaulding shades, BVD's, Malt Duck, girls wearing jellybean shoes, etc. I'd do anything to experience one of those summertime saturday nights.

☆Happy Bday☆ *40 Years old now* *23.12.18*

Get Down! Loving Flash!

Thank you for showing the way. We appreciate you all so much. Hip Hop lives Forever!!

Grand Master Flash's timing on the one and twos is🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!

thats whats up ! this is truly the foundation . thanks for bringin it

RIP Rammellzee! these rhymes were so ahead of their time, suckas still aint caught up to this!

I was three when Grandmaster Flash ROCKED THIS.

this should be remastered

Damn, man, this is some legendary shit. Thank you for sharing, peace ! This will last forever !

One must Understand Flash's Cuts and his mindset. No one was on time like Flash. His style of timing was so Uncanny. His sense to catch a record from the top and crossfade it in only to have it right on time was sick. Not to often was he ever of beat throwing in a break from the top to match what was already spinning. I have seen and heard Jazzy Jay from Zulu and Charlie Chase do it on occassions, but the first to ever make me take a second look at timing was Flash. The Genius of Timing.

Damn takes me back to jams at Rodney park in the South Side Williamsburg back in the day.

The funkiest stuff was built on the shoulders of jazz records no question!

i was born too late to enjoy grandmaster flash >

Wicked... Thanks so much.... I saw them in london like 30 years ago...! Still amazing.

Thanks, I have listened to this for years that is a smoking break .

0:54 listen to the audience

Classic Hip Hop history

I remember back in the day, we use to stay up late and listen to 105.9 NYC,,,This station only came on in the middle of the night with the Supreme Team show, snd they use to play the live battles and this over the air... If you have a radio at home, you also has your cassette set and ready for recording,,,

great TV show!!! i heard GMF as a child in the 80's 👍😋

TAKE NOTE THAT COWBOY ALSO WENT BY THE NAME KEITH COWBOY...AND AT ONE TIME IT WAS JUST THE THREE MCS MINUS MR NESS....EVEN LOVE BUG STARSKY WAS ROCKING WITH THEM FROM TIME TO TIME EVEN BEFORE THAT TIME WHEN THE REPETITION MC CRAZE WAS JUST BEGINNING. .DON'T FORGET THE DISCO BEE YAWLL!!! SHOTGUN IS IN THE HOUSE....

Flash was the first in extend those hot funky breaks (that Kool Herc only fade the one to other different in his "Merry Go-Round") using 2 copies of the same record on both turntables and mixing between they seemless, in similar way of Pete DJ Jones.

Das hört sich an als wenn ich mit meinen Homies in unserem Hobbykeller eine Session hätte. Wundervolle Jahre, ich hab mit 12 angefangen, heute bin ich 40 und bin immer noch mit Rap und Hip Hop verbunden. Dank Künstler wie diesen hier 💯♥️‼

Sounds pretty cool man. Love from Scotland. Peace x

lets go back to 82park.t.connection,audubon.those jams was the s;hhh.miss those days.rip herb.we were there.😄😄😄.

Very cool you got a piece of History there..

enfin du vrai hip hop com yen na plu!!!! thanks pour cette archive en or

Damn, they should of released this on Sugar Hill Records on 12 inch vinyl, Pure Gold!!

THE GET DOWN !

I am 41 and grew up when this was ALL NEW. I miss my records tapes and recording studio. I need to pull out some old rare tunes I still have and upload them don't I... :)

Mele Mel the first Emcee I seen ever rock a party !!!!! Who’s here 2018 ????? Furious Five ain’t no Jive !!!!!! Shout Out to George Westinghouse H.S Lunch Room !!!

Thanks for cleaning that up...lol. These are the original Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Pioneering DJ and MC's. The Sure Shot for 1978 and beyond!

This is one of my favorite old school tapes

This is awesome, I am just thrown by one thing, just got done reading "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash", according to Flash, Eddie Morris, aka Mr. Ness, the one to the left in the picture was the fifth man in the group, and was definitely in by the time they played the Audubon the first time Sept. 5th, 1976. Actually the member this vid says was the 5th man, Guy Williams aka Raheim was there on that date as well, in his book Flash remembers being introduced by him, Creole, and Scorpio. FYI

Hip Hop in its RAWWEST form right here .NYC style.this is how it all began!! done fuh show. nice post man Big up!..to the yes yes yall,to the beat yall-u dont stop--ya keep on!! rock on melle mel, peace..

Damn Im old..I was @ this party...was with Kool DJ DEE and DJ Tyrone...Love bug was with AJ...next night we played with Afrika Bamabaata....damn Im OLD....LOL

Do I hear an ECHO CHAMBER

2nd song. . . Brooklyn dreams. I can't remember name of the song tho! So classic. So hottest. "Flash is the kiiinng . . . . of the quick mix.

Mixing and rhymin is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

truely amazing! flash was so on point back then!

These were our teachers and pioneers!!!!!! They showed us how to do it as if it was meant to be. All the music technology of today, samplers, software, drum machines etc. was inspired by GRAND MASTER FLASH!!!!!

That's what i'm talking about :-) old school loving it

This is hip hop at its finest........

I was down with rap back then...now not so much.

Im 40 years old from the BX. I grew up in River Park towers across from Cedar Park from 75-80. I still never heard this. wow. very rare.

makes me proud to be a nyc kid even though im far from the 5 boros

ten stars!!! i LOVE this.these were the superstars b4 commercialism. shout out to the treacherous 3.original flavor.

preversion of rappers delight❤

I was there at that night made stick up and shot outs Casanova crew N the nine crew

thanks for sharin, old school is what i bleed

I was three years old when this track debuted ... RAD!

Awesome!

damn ! Flash's control of the backward (ON BEAT) spin at the end? wow. What was he rockin Direct drives then ? 1800's? 1300's ? Any Grandmaster Flash experts out there? I wonder if that was a Univox Echo chamber. Wow thanks for posting, you took it BACK !

love this era

Used to love standing watchin and listening to the homeboys get down....

This is official.I remember this like yesterday going to the flea market in the bronx purchasing mixtapes from the tape master.Taping flyers to the wall in my bedroom etc.

So, so dope! If anyone's in the UK Furious 5 are coming to town in March 2010. Old skool.

Memories don't leave like people do..."KEEP ON FLASH!!!"

very very very old schooooool!!!!! great to hear it!!!

I was almost only 2 months old when this was made, but this joint is hot 33 years later!!!

hell yea, thanks

🔥🔥🔥 classic they where way ahead of there time

DEFINITIVAMENTE ESTO ES VERDARO FUNK Y VERDADERO AMOR!!!!!!!.GRACIAS

where can i hear more ol skool tapes like this ?

I'll be 36 next week so it kind of feels like Hip Hop and I grew up together. Some people say it's not like it use to be, but nothing that grow stays the same. God bless the pioneers and the new generation for keeping it going. For better or worst. Hip Hop all day! It's all love!

I'm 48 this year. I remember when there was no hip hop. Thankfully I got hip hop and funk as part of my life.

True S, I think what was meant was Keith Cowboy. Still, it was great to hear vintage hip hop. S/O to whom ever posted this. Nice......

1978? F. Brilliant! Flash paved the way! Some cracking grooves! If you like Hip Hop you really must listen to this.....................1978!!!! PI...ON...EER!!! The lyrics sound a bit cheesey now but this was the START! A1!!!!!.

This was my third birthday. I didn't live far from NYC, dad was stationed at the submarine base in Groton CT.