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Grandmaster Flash on The Growth of Hip-Hop: "I'm Totally Speechless," Talks Women in Hip-Hop & More | Billboard’s No. 1 GRAMMYs Party 2024
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2/4/2024
Grandmaster Flash caught up with Billboard's Rania Aniftos at Billboard’s No. 1 GRAMMYs Party 2024.
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We're here with a pioneer of hip-hop, the legend himself, Grandmaster Flash.
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How are you?
00:06
I'm doing well, how are you?
00:07
I'm doing well, you look really slick tonight.
00:09
Thank you, I could say the same about you.
00:11
I'm just chilling.
00:13
So, hip-hop, obviously, we're on what, 52 years now?
00:17
50 years, but I've been doing it 52, but 50 years, you know, I can remember doing this as a child in a park,
00:24
and just doing it for recreation, and never in my wildest dreams that my techniques would bring the rapper into the culture,
00:34
never did I ever think that it would turn a DJ into a juggernaut,
00:38
never in my wildest dreams that it would turn the seamless loop into samples for the producers to produce the great music that they did.
00:47
I'm totally speechless, because never in my wildest dreams did I think, as a kid in a park in the Bronx, that I would be here.
00:57
And we all thank you for it, because you paved the way for some major artists.
01:01
Thank you, thank you so much.
01:02
Where would you like to see, from the past to the future, where would you like to see hip-hop go from here?
01:06
You know, that's a hard thing to say, because hip-hop has many tentacles,
01:10
and it's touched so many people, and it's on so many places on planet Earth,
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I just want to hope that it can just keep growing, keep growing, wherever that might be,
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because we did it from nothing, so it needs to just continue to just grow, that's all I can hope for.
01:26
I also love that women in hip-hop are having a major, major moment.
01:30
Love it, love it, love it.
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Is there something you have your eyes on right now?
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I love it, I think that for a long time I was wondering why hadn't there been so many, you know, so many female rappers in the beginning,
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but here we are, finally, finally, I'm super happy about that, I am.
01:46
Thank you so much, Grandmaster Flash, huge honor speaking to you tonight.
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Thank you, have a great night.
01:51
You have a great night.
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