Grandmaster Flash Brings His Legacy To Life With Twitch Takeover
The Rock Hall inductee will have a good time Grandmaster Flash Day on Monday (August 4) with a 20-DJ Twitch marathon honoring his 52 years in Hip-Hop.
Grandmaster Flash will have a good time Grandmaster Flash Day on Monday (August 4) with a worldwide DJ marathon and digital celebration. Since 2023, Flash has been formally acknowledged by the City of New York City 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 give you a plaque and your own day,’ and I was like, ‘What?’ They gave me a proclamation and they said August 4th is Grandmaster Flash Day,” he advised AllHipHop. “They wanted me to be recognized for the things that I did, the technique that I invented that brought all the rappers to life and other things.”
Instead of one other block get together like the primary yr, Grandmaster Flash is taking the celebration on-line together with his “Back2Back Raid Train” on Twitch. The occasion will function greater than 20 DJs from throughout the globe, together with Skratch Bastid, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Icy Ice and Grandmaster Flash himself.
“Myself and some of my good friends who do the Raid Trains, we got together and said, ‘Let’s do a Raid Train on August 4,’ and here we are,” he stated. “I like the thought of doing this as a result of it offers me an opportunity to say thanks to all of the DJs who adopted my strategies and all of the producers that adopted the strategies and the place it’s going.
“It’s wonderful, and the great people at Twitch give me my freedom to play my deep collection. I can play stuff in the ’60s all the way up to now and nobody says anything.”
Widely considered one of many founding fathers of Hip-Hop, Grandmaster Flash revolutionized DJing within the Seventies by creating the Quick Mix Theory—an progressive methodology of extending breakbeats utilizing two turntables. His groundbreaking work laid the muse for contemporary Hip-Hop manufacturing and efficiency. In 2007, he and the Furious Five turned the primary Hip-Hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“For me, it’s 52 years, you know?” he stated. “As far as expertise is anxious, it’s completely great. I get to play within the sandbox yet again with fashionable expertise as a result of I’m a geek. I’ve at all times beloved devices.
The “Back2Back Raid Train” kicks off Monday (August 4) at 4 a.m. ET and runs till midnight on Grandmaster Flash’s Twitch channel.
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