GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS 5 - FOUNDATION LESSON #12 - JAYQUAN
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Biography of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5. Based on exclusive interviews with the members of the group by JayQuan. Written,Narrated, Produced & Edited by JayQuan.
It’s amazing how this video only has 44k views and a stupid article about a male rapper shooting a female rapper has millions. This is truly a lesson in the way rap came into existence and is an extremely well researched piece. I appreciate the hard work put into all this brothers work.
Kool Herc and Flash got their technics from Disco dj's who were beat matching way before them. Francis Grasso was extending breaks in the late 60's and doing needle droppings.
I was born in '65 in Jersey, so 80's hip hop raised me! Very informative....
Raised me too my brother...Yup!
Flash and the 5 are my fav rap group, Flash is my fav DJ and Mel is my fav MC...anybody who wants to know how a group shold sound listen to Freedom. The way they passed the mic back and forth in and out and with Creole adlibing it is simply one of the best rap records ever made...salute to you cuzzo this is a great piece bro...
Definitely bro. Freedom is the blueprint. Respect
As i said, Grandmaster Flash is and always will be Da GOAT...... PREACH !!!!
THESE MEN SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORICAL HIP HOP MARKERS OF THEMSELVES.THEY HELP SHAPED THE RAP GENRE FOREVER.
youre doin something real special here.youre documenting and archiving hip hop history that would otherwise get lost (at least to the people who arent specifically checking for it)...youre makin it palatable to the wider audience!condensed,professionally put together,narrated,high production value,the whole 9...keep doin what youre doin!we need this!
Peace and respect bro. Thanks for looking...
Seriously...this is my youth! Even in Norway (although we were alone) A couple of guys got it! We started splitting tapes, remixing , and edit stuff.... This vid is awsome, and left me with a lot more info about th godfathers! Thanks!!😃😃
I’m a dj of 40 plus years. And just like you the adventures of the wheels of steel was and still the record that changed my life. After ruining my dads brand new Technics 1300 digital drive turn table from Japan I became the guy who rocked the parties. Back then a dj had to know is music front and back. I would spend hours at the record store or in my room with the door locked only to come out to eat and shit. Then back to my records. I had to know how flash did it. I was an Air Force kid that didn’t grow up in NYC. But had earlier access to nyc records when young airmen would come in from the east coast with them and we would trade records to record on the cassettes. Kinda like trading comic books like kids did back then. I love what you have done with your knowledge of our youth and how our hero’s have influenced the world of hip hop. The video footage is great and well produced. Amazing job that you so much for that journey back to when I was 13. Please continue your amazing talent. Thank you brother ✌🏽
Well informed and articulated......I grew up on this music, Our generation was so supa Kool , compared 2 the mumble rap of today
Thanks for looking!
I'm at a lost for words on how informative this video was or is. Your videos are Hip-Hop history lessons. Kudos.
Thanks for looking bro!
The Foundation did you ever do a bio on kurtis blow???
www.thafoundation.com is full of great interviews and stories that you won't see anywhere else. Jay and Troy are the best when it comes to getting the pioneers their friends homeys relatives etc. They get interviews nobody else gets check em out...
Young millennials could really learn alot about the beginning of rap and hip hop,this is very good information for me and i graduated in 74
Grandmaster Flash really set it off for those of us who came straight from the streets hustling they had a very positive message and they song and no way were they trying to encouraged the used to do crimes I think that is one of the most impressive and educational lyrics ever that was very real unlike most of what you hear today! From there you start having a lot of people come out telling stories the things they see around them and that's how we relate to them I think they are underrated Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five made some very very hot tracks you couldn't go to a party a house party or Club back in the day and not hear their songs it's unfortunate that you find out years later how the record labels play politics entire members against members over money it's obvious you doing it so that you can make money to take care of your family and live comfortable and someday retire and live off the fruits of your labor but these brothers never really made it nowhere near millionaire status as individuals most definitely they are true pioneers of hip-hop!
Much Respect to Bro. Jayquan as I approach 50 years of age and being heavily influenced by hip hop culture I appreciate your contributions to keeping the history alive especially for the younger generation. Peace and Respect from Florida "The SUNSHINE STATE....
Awesome! You put much into this and it's all dope! 👍👍
I loved this video/biography! It filled in the blanks so to speak.
Watching/listening to it brought back many great memories of when I listened to this way back in the day... Mixing these records and making mixed tapes for my friends in the 80's for parties or just driving around town boomin' & thumpin' the beats in our cars was truly one of the best times of my life...
So many of my friends got into rap/funk/hip hop through me. I'd buy all the latest hits playing in clubs sometimes before the became hits! :) The record stores carried many records imported to 🇨🇦and that was the majority of what I bought. I even drove down to the USA once with some friends just to buy
LP's and 12 inch singles, ones I never saw up here. Luckily I kept all my vinyl and occasionally listen to it.
This video was very educational and professionally created.
Thank you very very much for making and posting this video.
Thumbs WAY up! 👍🏼
PS at the end of the video you say it was part 1, is there a part 2? I'd really like to see more...
Thanks for looking!!
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@@TheFoundationhiphop You're very welcome, thank you for the link to the next part... I look forward to watching it and I look forward to watching more of your other very well made videos. Not only are they entertaining and bring back memories, they are informative history lessons.
Thanks this is very Good. This was my group back in the day. No cussing, Fighting, and Killing
a "Child is born with no state of mind"
It's a damn shame that Kid Creole is now still sitting in jail waiting for his murder trial
IN TE WORDS OF FLAVA FLAV.....CAN'T TRUST IT🙏🙏🙏🙏💪
GMFF5...Hip - Hop Icons...Pioneers...Legends.
I remember when my sister took me to a grandmaster flash and the furious 5 concert at the Los Angeles sports arena at the age of 17 in the 80s. And I seen flash cutting it up on the 2,turntables it blew my mind and that’s the day I fell in love with Djing.
17:38 ... that pose was EPIC! 😆
I been saying that for 10 years since this you tube stuff 💪💪💯💯💯
Very informative and well put together 👌🏾👍🏾👏🏾! Loving these lessons from the musical age of my teen years 👍🏾. As far as “The Message” goes glad you’ve cleared up something for me. When it first came out in ‘82 me and my friends never knew who this Duke Bootee was 🤷🏽♂️🤨. Years later when I first saw the video Rahiem was lip syncing to it so I thought he was the one rapping with Mel and Duke Bootee’s part was some production collaboration 🤷🏽♂️. Now you tell us that Rahiem’s voice was synced out and replaced by Duke Bootee’s 😱. They both have a similar sound quality to their voice, but Duke Bootee tends to sound a little more monotone. That’s why it wasn’t hard for me to believe it was Rahiem when I saw the video, but otherwise I had no idea who the second rapper was back in ‘82 🤷🏽♂️. It’s sad that these studio production collaborations seemed to drive a wedge between members of the group (particularly Grandmaster Flash, whose roll had to be cut to a fraction of what it could have been because of copyrights over samples and technology). Such a shame the group couldn’t be kept together in its entirety. They made much better music together than apart 😔.
Respect Due!!! Salute King 👑
Please do Grandmaster Caz.
this is dope! im 46 and didnt know a lot of this. $alute
Dam this is like hip hop class 101 definitely needed this👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is classic. These rappers today should listen and how to be REAL E M C E E'S
Agreed! Thanks for looking!
+The Foundation Man I can't believe what happened with Kidd Creole a few days ago.:(
Me either bro :(
You ain't lying, Scutte. Maybe some of these modern day wet-behind-the-ears whipper snappers can learn something.
Five Star rating from me.
Thank You!!
Much respect to Flash. My first cassette tape was Flash and The Furious Four (before Raheem). My understanding is that Dj Smokey & The Smoketrons used to battle Herc. Also, Flash used to carry crates for Smokey and studied him back in the day. Dj Smokey is also said to have played the "get down." DJ Hollywood was the first person I actually saw live that had the whole package and rocked the party. Crash Crew's High Powered Rap seemed to use the actual Freedom song being cut up while these other dudes used bands?
This is absolutely incredibly amazing! Thank you so much Jay Quan for producing this. I have been following hip-hop since the early 80s and I dedicate Thursday to my hip-hop documentaries. I am doing this because I know I have missed a lot in the hip-hop world especially behind the scenes. I am watching all the hip-hop documentaries in chronological order and I have made it from the early 70s to the early 80s now. And thus Grandmaster Flash and the furious five came up. Your video came up so I watched this and I found it to be incredibly insightful! I certainly want to see more of your videos as you uncover a lot of behind the scenes and great detail that is profoundly interesting to a hip-hop fan. Thank you!
Respect. Thank you.
Thank you for another great hip hop history tutorial.
Thanks for looking!
This is the time when hip hop was about fun and dancing.
Well done sir! I was a senior in high school in 1982 and we blasted this music all over. It’s great to have such a detailed history of the music that had such an impact on me and all my friends lives. Thank you. Semper Fi
JayQuan ... I'm gonna run out of adjectives suitable to describe the value of your dopeness ... this ep is another incredible entry... my goodness 💪💪💪💪
WAS IN 8TH GRADE WHEN I FIRST HEARD KURTIS BLOW..SUMMER OF 81. I HEARD GRAND MASTER FLASH......😂😂😂DID A LIP SINC TALENT SHOW TO TE MESSAGE IN THE SUMMER OF 84.....DON'T PUSH ME CAUSE IM CLOSE TO THE EDGE...THANK YOU LORD FOR BIRTHING ME OLD SCHOOL HIGHSCHOOL CLASS OF 85.......🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶💵💵💵💵💵💪🙏
Excellent overview with such great detail!
You are the man. Preach and teach my brother
Lovely E. Salute to Flash
Excellent footage‼️‼️‼️
This is One of the Soundstracks to my Life....... PREACH !!!!
Amazing video. I've loved these guys since I was a teenager. Great to see all the info in one place. Always wondered about the Grandmaster Melle Mel/Grandmaster Flash thing. Looking forward to part 2!
This is FRESH! 80's BBOY4LIFE. ✌🏾😎
Professor JayQuan, I've viewed about 10-15 vids over the last 4 days since discovering your channel and I am proud to say that I can recognize the goups on your Foundation logo. Lol, but thanks again for your hard work.
tywayne3 lol, thanks for listening bro!!
I watched this video from 11:34 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. and 2:05 P.M. to 2:27 P.M. It was the first time that I watched a video of yours since I watched, "WHY GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL IS THE GOAT, over 5 months ago. I thought that I knew enough about Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. I was wrong. This video was interesting! 🤓
There a show on Netflix called the get down about them
So informative. Thanks for putting this important history into context. Great work!
Thank you for looking!
This is incredible, Some of this music can play today with no problem
Love to hear Our history told by US
Old rap, I have a greatest hits record by them. They still hold up after all these years.
Man, I LOVE this and your whole damn channel!!!Huge GMFF5 fan.FINALLY, someone is getting it right and giving these groups their JUST DUE!!! Keep up the GREAT work!
Thank you for looking bro. Much more to come.
The Foundation Keep'em coming,my friend!
once again great episode! R.I.P. Duke Bootee
Thanks so much for this lesson! But SYLVIA herself could program drum machines!?!?!?!?! I had no clue!
Super group!!!! Damn. I thought Force M.D.s were the first true R&B/ Hip Hop groups. Those who didnt just harmonize but sang.
Love these videos. Been watching them back to back to back. Great history. Amazing stories. Haven't watched all your videos yet even though I've been following you for a long time but, I think you should do one in Newcleus if you haven't done it yet. I just found out recently that they are actually from Brooklyn. My hometown.
The history...wow loving this all though I was to young to remember any of this plus I grow up in Boston these names were things I heard when I was outside tring to hang around the older kids I looked up to...not all these names just the more popular ones from around the 80s
There should be a movie made about Flash's life.
Awesome Documentary !
Respect. Thank you
Jayquan comes with that history. Great piece of work.
You do good work sir. You know the history of this thing.
Respect
He don't know the history of hip-hop, he going on what he heard about it. I am there in the middle of it all, all of them come from my neighborhood trinity Ave, forest projects. Including d.j jazzy Joyce. Coco from sev, Arron and Damon hall.and bank Hank, and cool Keith cowboy, Mello type of fellow, Keith cowboy is the one who introduced flash to paulette Jeffery. And mean gene lived on Boston Rd.
Oi know he didn't know that whipper whip and Dot A rock was part of cold crush brothers.
his brother was part of the group called mix master tee and the dynamic three
Excellent!! Thanks for the history lesson
Thanks for looking!
Yo I love these videos bro you should do one on T la Rock or tha Beastie Boys maybe, hell maybe even NWA
flash had a homemade amp called the gladiator 4 it had tubes in it
Wow!
"The Message" when 1st heard, it changed my life!
So interesting this stage of the development of hip hop.
Yo!!! This is the missing link.. this is so amazing. I always wanted to know more about the early years In depth.. god bless you brother !!
Peace and Respect to you!
I have Freedom, Happy Birthday, It's Nasty, etc. on wax till this day. I was in my last year in Junior High School in 1982 when The Message song dropped with the video; I was mesmerized.
Very informative. Thks...
All should start writing there books before it's to late, cause everyone has there own part in building this hip-hop and I am happy that I was there to witness this and jam to the beat.
R.I.P Cowboy
No group wanted The Message. Wow! That song went Gold in 8 days
Yo man I love your channel as a hip-hop Artist I am learning a lot keep it coming fam
Another great episode made by JayQuan, thank you so much!!!
Is there more coming like:
Grandwizard Theodore & The Fantastice 5,
Love Bug Starski,
Kurtis Blow,
The Herculoids,
Roxanne Shante,
Pebblee Poo,
Grandmixer D.ST,
Mr. Magic,
Malcolm McLaren (Art Of Noise),
Davy DMX,
Afrika Bambaataa,
Whodini,
Newcleus...
Beautiful, you are accurate, and I just subscribed.
Thanks for looking and subscribing. Much appreciated
I remember watching Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five on Soultrain & Rapmania in 1990, to include videos... GMF - F5 all the way.
Dope mini doc
Thanks for looking!
Yo this was such a dope backstory!! Very informative and detailed! Salute GMF and Furious 5!!. Thanks for this great post 💪
Great Info 4 all the true GMF & F5 Fans
Great explananation of the history of hip hop.......
Great Work, Jayquan! Looking forward to Part 2.
When hip hop was built from scratch.........Like when we took the tweeters out of the nyc subway cars to build them earthquake speakers.........The good ol days!
Your best video yet player, thanks.
Thank you. And thanks for looking!
True Legends
INTERESTING
Great stuff ! Really enjoy how you put your videos together
EXCELLENT VIDEO. THANK YOU! YES I'M SHOUTING MY APPRECIATION!
Respect, and thank you for looking!
Real history of rap music.....
exactly ..RAP MUSIC
Amazing
Thanks for looking!
The was TOUGH. Good stuff, keep it up homes 💯
Help me understand how flash the amazing dj he is use to take apart his equipment and invent better equipment. A lot of which created the sound that I grew up on. I remember walking around the Bronx and Harlem seeing those party flyers and seeing those names on them and not realizing that they were the same ones on the tapes that I would listen to. I was born in 72 and was an only child so I spent a lot of time listening to music. My friend and I were walking to the store maybe 81 82 and remember seeing a party flyer and it said cold crush brothers and my friend said we were just listening to them they are the joint. I realized what those flyers were. Obviously I never went to one of those parties I was a kid and there was never videos of those parties. Djs nowadays don’t even carry crates of records wtf they carry laptops and anybody performing anywhere is recorded on a fucking cellphone and posted online before the show is even over. I have a great respect for all of these brothers who without even knowing would go on to create a genre of music that singlehandedly would change the trajectory of music as we know it today. Cause let’s be honest in 82 if you weren’t black or Puerto Rican people didn’t listen to that hip hop hop hip huh huh bullshit. They didn’t even think it was music. Much less music that 40 years later would be responsible for generating the hundreds of billions of dollars that it has made for people over the years. And I appreciate jay z saying for saying I’m overcharging these niggas for what they did to the cold crush. These brother PUT IN WORK and don’t get the credit they deserve. The artist the baby said he gets 300k a show. And gmff5 did shows where it was 3 bucks to get in. You can’t get jack shit for 3 bucks nowadays. But for 3 bucks you got to see these cats blood sweat and tears. Not just one a whole group of brothers putting their best foot forward their talent and creativity. I know we’ve come a long way but along the way I don’t know if we’ve lost sight of what hip hop truly is.
So much info I never knew. Well done.
I like "we rap more mellow" just to listen to Rahiem's verse!
Great video
wowwwwww..... amazing documentary bro!
Thank you for looking bro. Actually editing part 2 now.
Perfect 👌 my brother truly in joyed this
(1970's)..Right on, I dig,. 👍✅
The Adventures of GMF on the Wheels of Steel is still 🔥
Pivotal joint...
Peace Original Man (JayQuan)...now that I think about it...now that I am listening to this video again, and Creole mentioned that Mel was the first to spit rhymes beyond the level "nursery-style" rhymes...now was Mel before GM Caz/Casanova Fly; or was they around the same time??? I heard that Caz was actually the 1st one to take it to that next level when he was rockin' wit' DJ Disco Wiz (one of the 1st Boriqua/so-called 'Puerto Rico' stated in the Hip Hop game).
Caz cites Mel as being before him.
@@TheFoundationhiphop So it is Melle Mel, Casanova Fly, and Kool Moe Dee --> Then the Epitome of what it is to an Emcee was Etched in Stone! The Original Man who first founded (established) "Jerusalem" --> Jebus, Salim, and Ariel...LOL...of Hip Hop Emcees!
golden jewels my brother. golden jewels about a golden era. i was in queens, 13 or 14 years old when i first heard Flash on a cassette tape that was sold on the streets - mesmerized me and changed my life. thank you for this. quiet as kept these cats are the originators of the entire genre.
This documentary goes deep into detail😊😅