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 - video Dailymotion

Grandmaster Flash caught up with Billboard's Rania Aniftos at Billboard’s No. 1 GRAMMYs Party 2024.

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00:00 We're here with a pioneer of hip-hop, the legend himself, Grandmaster Flash.

00:05 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,

01:15 I just want to hope that it can just keep growing, keep growing, wherever that might be,

01:20 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.

01:31 Is there something you have your eyes on right now?

01:33 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,

01:41 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.

01:50 Thank you, have a great night.

01:51 You have a great night.

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