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  • Dope!

  • Legendary!

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

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

  • grandmaster flash invented every cross fade trick he even invented the mixer one of the switches is named after him its called the flash hes the first and the king of this hobby.

  • this iss dope...chk my video :)

  • sick ass bboy breaks

  • ALWAYS SOOO FRESH...

  • haven't heard these beats in yrs...still oh so sweet. born in '73 ;-/

  • Auf dieses Video antworten... eins der besten sets aller zeiten

  • "Kid Creole...sold gold low and behold the prince of soul...soul!!!"

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

  • thanks for uploading this

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

  • Wow I wanted so bad to have this tape back in the day Peace to all my hip hop peopel

  • This is more than just hip hop, it's old sku, real life, escapism from the shit they lived in. It's hardcore blues.

  • yes yes ya'll

  • I'm rocking to this. This is the hip hop I know back then. Are there are copies of this tape available to the public?

  • i need to get a copy of this,!!! anyone know where,how??

  • This just makes me wanna cry! It doesn get any realer than this. B4 anyone calls themselves a rapper or MC or DJ they should be MADE to study this and listen to this over and over and over again just to let it sink into their soul.

  • where can i get a copy of this casette??????????

  • I WANT TO THANK GM FLASH AND THE 3 MC'S LATER THE FURIOUS 4 MC'S FOR ALL THOSE GREAT MEMORIES. I.E. SKELLYS, BREAK DANCING AND MOST OF ALL HIP HOP. I MUST SAY HIP HOP UNDER THESE GUYS TRULY SAVED MY LIFE. IT GAVE US AN OUTLET, SOMETHING TO DO, LOOK FORWARD TO, LOCAL HEROS TO LOOK UP TO AND MIMIC. 1973-1979 WAS A GOLDEN ERA AND IM TRULY BLESS TO HAVE WITNESS IT. NOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT EARLY ROCK-N-ROLL MEANT TO MY PARENTS!

  • @ datzulucat58@aol.com , how u like this old school beats ?

  • Why Lil' Wayne exists man? He a pop star along with Eminem.

  • 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.

  • @Powerules love the imagery brother.. i remember what you do and dang i want to go back..

  • @Powerules Fam, your comments are so on point! Oh yeah, did you say Malt Duck? Wow if I can find an apple flavor joint right now it would be on along with some Trouble Funk "Pump Me Up".

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

  • this is when we used to travel to the bronx from brooklyn to watch these crews and the dancers and tag up all the way there and back!!

    thats hip hop 4 yo ass!

    hip hop 4eva!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sistael haha i hear ya thats good stuff . Old school hardrocks thats wasup!!! south bx up in this bitch

  • Definitely "JAA2090" Good Comment..."The Blueprint" is Most appropriate!

  • Black Music HISTORY!!!!!!

  • 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!!!!!

  • PURE!!!!!!!

  • 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......

  • WRONG

    Keith Keith was a member of the

    FUNKY 4

    Rahiem left the Funky 4

    And Join the Melly Mel & Flash

    They became the Furious 5 mc's

  • my Baby Food ! Hip hop Cornerstones , MelleMel was the Undisputed King of the MIC ! I know I was there !

  • I BE 46 THIS YEAR HIP-HOP SO GREAT BACK THEN

  • this is the pyramids of hip hop

  • Same as it ever was...UniVers@l Keym@ker 4 LYFE !

  • i'm hip hop from '78!!

    i'm 47 years old in june and i was raised n bklyn. we moved there from chicago in '76 when i was 12. when it comes to rap, tagging, breakin', crews, grafitti and coterfields, addidas and what not I WAS THERE!!! loved it when king tim the third came out...i'm so lucky. "fever my niqqa, harlem world y'all."

  • @AVANTMUSIC133 Wow u left Chicago right when disco and house music was about to kick off not too long after. That's wassup thou. I love NYC just the same! It's like my 2nd home. City life dude right here!!

  • @djgantman NYC, D.C., Chi Town & South connect is what makes this music rock the spot!

  • @cooliegee Yes yes! All day, no doubt. Can't forget about Jersey, Philly and Detroit!! Soul cities!!

  • @AVANTMUSIC133 Coterfields.....wow!!!!! you went back...

  • 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 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... :)

  • AMAZING :) one of my favourite festival moment of the past 15 years is seeing Grandmaster Flash at Homelands in 2003....fabulous set tracking his progress through decades of music...fab :)

  • Listen to all the original hip hop, the point was to keep the sucka mc's out of the game - because they would water it down and make it whack. But corporate power came to their aid - and now look around, the sucka Mc's won.

  • Flash is using the following samples:

    00:00 - 00:53: Fatbackin' (The Fatback Band)

    00:53 - 04:59: Music, Harmony and Rhythm (Brooklyn Dreams)

    04:59 - 09:21: Sing, Sing (Gaz)

    09:21 - 10:00: Space Funk (Manzel)

  • @MoralNihilism Yo, my man what was that song the DJ's would cut up " Trinidad Where I'm Going, Trinidad Island of Love" ? I been so long but it is in the back of my mind.

  • @MoralNihilism You are very right! Thanks!

  • I Soooo L.O.V.E this!

  • 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.

  • 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,,,

  • Does anyone remember the name of the tracks they are rap'n to???

  • i'd kill to see flash doing this

  • thats gold

  • It's great when you get to hear these songs the way they were supposed to be.its hard listening to the recorded old school hip hop because all those producers would put them in the studio with the house musicians and make that corny music instead of them record the raw.its like if flash would not have begged Sylvia Robinson to let him record that one record adventures of....I don't know its just a shame there is not much old studio quality hip hop that really got to showcase what was goin on.

  • selling all my collection of rare old school hip hop stuff from the 80's, all original, contact me if interested.

  • @insanelook Sent you a message. Let me know what you've got fam. 1

  • real breaks right there!

  • Back when the MC had to keep the party going ALL NIGHT, not just till his latest single finished playing

  • @popdaddy real shit right there........the beats ..........these nigeers really freestyling all night just ripping shit thank god for youtube

  • this is some real good hip hop,not that corporate cussing crap we hear today

  • what kind/ brand of turntables did flash make wheels of steel on?

  • This was the real pure Rap.Sooo authentic.The music for komplet generation.

  • if you were not there you could not appricate the movement of the blackdoor on boston rd in the bx and the dixie club on freeman st ////this columbo dam we having fun ///casonova all over..........

  • this is classic right here

  • around 5:00 that's the sample for wu tang "it's yours" what is that record?

  • @lowlife71 'sing sing' by gaz

  • you can hear some echobox on Public enemy - b side wins again. Edan is also a fan of the echobox style as he uses a similar effect in his performances.

  • Thats funking exellent

  • im breathless, this is the shit.

  • where can i get a copy of this tape!!!!!!!!!!

  • I love reading the comments on here. Now if we can just get all 206 of you to each bring 2 friends and charge $10 a head we can get this shyt going again!

    lol

  • Damn. I remember these days when I used to hang out with Noc167,TDS, SnoozeTC5, & Smiz/StayKool and bomb trains and walls. We gave the world culture.

  • Check out my page! Female Hip Hop Artist

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

  • notice how this touches your soul instantly

  • Nice, would be nice to know the first two breaks.. Tits up tho

  • Kingdom Era of the Real Beat.

  • 'Keith Keith' is a pretty great name but I feel like I wouldn't get away with calling myself that today

  • @jamesharvey how about "keith keith the young ladies relief". it's in how you can present yourself

    lol

  • I think this section has more rapping than Sosage boy's whole CD.

  • This was such a precious time,at 52 I am so glad I was around when HIP-HOP began.It is much different now(commercilaization).This the real deal,not manufactured.I enjoy todays era but this is just fantastic.Flash was amazing,I could tell you stories but not here.Peace.JA.

  • @JAA2090 I was not here but I had to admit rap today sucks compared to this real shit.

  • @JAA2090 Yo, U Right JAA We were from the jump. Man those were good times.

  • @JAA2090 I think you should just let kids be kids.

  • melle mel is the greatest rapper ever...Kool Moe Dee is 2nd..well, maybe Grand Master Caz

  • @JAA2090 True JA! I'm 44 and I was there from the beginning also, although obviously unable to get into the clubs in the 70's and very early 80's, though it never stopped me from getting to a street jam at 12, 13 and 14 years old (before I started sneaking in the clubs w/you older dudes lol)

  • @JAA2090 

  • one of my favs after cold crush... 

  • i was born too late to enjoy grandmaster flash ><,

    this is HELLA TIGHT.

    mad props for uploading :D

  • yeaaaaaaah grandmaster flash @ finland TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! im gonna be there

  • Great!!

    This 1978 reminds me of 1988,89 rap!! ....hahaha ;)

  • @Immortaldisco

    this is how i know ur dumb you mean 1988-1989 reminds you of 1978

    if u ever said that toward grand master he would slap you 70's made the 80's thats when it all started

  • @DjRiches AND THAT WHAT I SAID ,,SO WHY IN HELL YOU ALTER MY WORDS?? DO YOU READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LO­OOOOOOOOOOL

  • @DjRiches you speak like yoda LOL your not supposed to say an earlier age reminds you of a later one.

  • what this represents is a time when it was exclusive..the only way you heard this

    is if you went to these jams..thats what they where called..jams.

    bronx ,harlem, brooklyn, not to many people had DJ sets. this was the time

    when cats would go school shopping at delancy st , sheep skin coats,

    leather bombers, stradler coats. IT WAS A BLESSING TO HAVE GROWN UP AND EXPERIENCE ALL OF THIS.BOX RADIOS.LEE JEANS..PEACE TO ALL THE PEEPS THAT KNOW WHAT IT WAS.

  • @meandminespro7 I'm thankful to have grown up during this time...

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

  • HaHa Sucka Sucka I was @ this party!!! Neva be anything like this!!!! Kid Creole was the BEST @ this PARTY....him and COWBOY!!!!

  • Old school? Fugdat! This should be part of the Hip Hop Constitution! The Blueprint!

    Part of the invention of the wheel! Hip Hop Bible! The Truth!

    Now it's just misinterpreted, twisted, water down Pop Hop. It went from this materpiece to some fools mumbling b.s. over a casio beatmachine.

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • Flash was so dope - i hope y'all realize he is looping the record with his hands, which is why the beat is imperfect - you know, in a perfect way - and he's using the pitch control to change the key of the song - hot shot!

  • Keith Cowboy. The original Hip Hop artist.

  • REAL HIP HOP!!!!!!!!

  • 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.

  • woow! Fresh!

    you can understand and reflected Hip Hop, if you study the History! this is so important to teach the youth of today. What is the essence of Hip Hop? To be creative in all the elements in Hip Hop, to have fun, to jam up! God bless all the heroes of the original oldschool cats! one love, one nation,...zulu nation

  • WOW!

  • FUCKING WICKED!!!!

  • Mellie Mel Is the true G.O.A.T !!!!!!

  • @RFIGGZ

    I agree with you 100%

  • @RFIGGZ

    i got a pic with Melle Mel,

    he be in the Newyork club called the "SHADOW" on saturday nights,

    enjoying his life : )

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

  • this is the original y all!

  • this isn't old school. it's older than that. awesome shit

  • @lanier2 I jus' got up on that, too...so, it can B said that the birthplace of hip hop on wax was in "Hollywood"??? Hmmm???

  • violin, flute?, ALL SORTS OF FUNKY!!!

  • wow better then his cds

  • ...and thats how its done son...

  • a yes yes ya'll...that says it all!!!..

  • this is amazing. Lyrical, the beat is amazing. I have to say thanks to the founders/ hip hop creators, any body involved in the movement

    these people allowed me to be able to listen to hip hop from sun up to sun down.

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Whats the tune around 5.00 through 7.00

  • @psyne000 Break at 5.00 is Gaz - Sing Sing which I believe came out in 1978 on Salsoul Records. Funky as ....

  • @StevieDrunk True indeed...

  • how was he playing it backwards??

  • @miamiwax LOL

  • @WhoIsBaz I know, but that was a rare appearance. Your Mum would've understood ;)

  • Classical rapp.

  • whats the piano track at 3min?

  • Brooklyn Dreams "Music Harmony And Rhythm"

  • Wicked... Thanks so much....

    I saw them in london like 30 years ago...! Still amazing.

  • awesome

  • Yo i remember cat's with the echo box, had the juice at the party's,plug that bitch in niggas could get killed trying to get on the mike. Shit was a double tape player with studder,LOllll.

  • This is so funky ....I love that echobox effect

    It was originally used by jamaican dj's & soundsystems & then imported by kool herc to the us.

    Run dmc used to manually replicate it in their rhyme styles.

    Flash is the king of the quickmix

  • @tygaelement Cre was the king of the echo chamber

  • rulez.

  • anyone know the song @ 3:40 ?

  • music harmony and rhythm by Brooklyn Dreams.

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

  • @stevio yeah but it won't be like this. this is frozen in time. to get it to this high of a level takes time & money which just aren't there. and its a damn shame! lol

  • this is gooood shit;) best when you get highxD legalize this shit!

  • what is the name of the song at :54 seconds ? please help.

  • Music Harmony and Rhythm -- Brooklyn Dreams

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

  • The Sparkle, The Exec, the Amory, The Serious Joint...Yes Yes Yall B-boys and girls...get dusty...tru Black

  • I have this at home, along with lots of other crews

  • hell yeah now thats old school sound realy good wow

  • Music, Harmony and Rhythm by Dreams of Brooklyn comes in at :54

  • imo, best things from 78-86

  • Outside of the cussing (which wasn't that much), this stuff was the SERIOUS JOINT! REAL rap, not this, gangsta, pre-arranged, un-imaginative, phony, deathly crap they call hip-hop today.

  • man i love dis beat

    grandmaster is always freshhhhhhhhhh

  • YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • he is the best

  • Very sic !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • this is so fresh still 30 years later

  • 1st beat is fatback band - i was making a beat out of it just earlier tonight as it goes

  • Of course the beats came from Jazz.. The original Made in America music! They had to come from somewhere.

  • I was at the Audobon during this night. It was the first time I broke night. Got home around daylight. I was 15. The only reason I went was because damn near my whole block was there. DJ Starski, The Grand Wizard Theodore and my Boys, The Chocolate City Crew ft., KK the DJ and Money Mike, Horny Horns and Tony Tone on the Microphone. What you wanna Do? I wanna do the FREAK DANCE! You had to be there! Shout out to Gerald. (forgot your DJ name)

  • @harp430 keep those stories coming my man

    lol

  • FLASH IS THEEee KING kingg! of the qwik mix!!

    FURIOUS FIVE TAKE NO JIVE!

    truly classic, king of the fader peace out FLASH!

  • love that oldschool baby

  • Yeah this rocks.

    I´ve got one old tape but in still good quality in maybe the same sound but the DJ was Africa bambatha . But the singer is the same.

  • This sounds like back in the days when hip hop was like jazz. Listening to a live recording was better than the studio tracks. Everyones rappin in the moment.

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

  • @BRazor78 well said!

  • thank you for putting this on!

  • These are some bumpin beats. 10x better then all the mainstream "rap" and "hip hop" they play on the radios now. jay-z, soldier boy, kanye west, lil wayne. all garbage.

  • I agree. THAT's rap, not this thug,hoey, mismash, gobboly-gook JUNK. Serious beat, improv, the serious joint! I wish they could've refrained from the profanity.