NEW YORK (AFP) – As a teenager Grandmaster Flash began pioneering the turntable-as-instrument, playing the now iconic Bronx block parties that gave birth to hip-hop and revolutionised music. On Friday, he was back home, commemorating 50 years of the genre with a performance that had New Yorkers born in the mid-20th Century reliving their youth […]
The audience swayed with their hands in the air as Flash threw it back to the jams of the early 1970s, which ushered in the genre that s profoundly impacted music as well as fashion, dance and the culture at large.
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As a teenager Grandmaster Flash began pioneering the turntable-as-instrument, playing the now iconic Bronx block parties that gave birth to hip-hop and revolutionized music.Along with fellow hip-hop pioneers, he was joined by a troupe of breakdancers who wowed the audience with a throwdown.
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The Vince Lombardi rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike was bustling with travelers Monday, heading home from their Memorial Day Weekend plans. “We headed out to Lancaster on Friday, so we’re coming back from that, heading back to the Bronx,” said Keisha Harmon, who stopped at the rest area with […]