Grandmaster Flash Shares Who He is Currently Listening to at the 2024 Grammys | THR Video - video Dailymotion

Grandmaster Flash tells THR on the red carpet at the 2024 Grammys who he is listening to this year and reveals what's on his 2024 bucket list.

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00:00How does it feel to be back here at the Grammys again?

00:03It is an absolute pleasure, and for me, I think that our culture that was considered underground

00:08should be in venues and situations just like this.

00:12Now, this year, I did come here to see some of my friends win awards

00:17and see who's upcoming, what's the latest music that's going to win awards.

00:21But I also am here for a biased reason, because there's a jazz artist by the name of Bob James,

00:29and I broke this song in 1975 called Take Me to the Mardi Gras,

00:33and now he's up, he's nominated to win a Grammy.

00:38And the producers on that album, DJ Jazzy Jeff, which is one of my close friends,

00:43I call him Little Brother, he's up for a nomination,

00:47and I'm here to say he needs to get that piece of steel.

00:52That's why I'm here.

00:53I love it.

00:54Welcome to Jazzy Jeff.

00:56For you, who are some up-and-coming hip-hop artists that you really love and are listening to right now?

01:01You know, whenever I try to answer that question, it always got me in trouble.

01:06Because out here on the internet, on the post, why you didn't say me? Why you didn't say me?

01:12So I'm going to shut my damn mouth and say there's so many of y'all, but I'm not going to say one.

01:17I'm going to be fair. I've got to be a fair dad. That's how it's going down.

01:20Outside of hip-hop, who are some artists you've been loving this past year?

01:27I'll tell you what I listen to when I'm chilling.

01:30Debussy, Stravinsky, Bach, Beethoven.

01:39Because of their rhythms.

01:42I take those rhythms into a recording studio, or I take them rhythms while I'm on the turntables.

01:47So that's a big thing that I listen to, and I listen to jazz as well.

01:51I love that. Amazing. I mean, true inspiration.

01:54Right, because I like to go outside of my community, musically speaking, to introduce something into the community.

02:03So whether I'm DJing or whether I'm producing, that's pretty much how I do me.

02:10That's amazing. In 2024, what's something you have coming up that you're excited about?

02:15Lectures. I want to lecture to all the children. I want to lecture in universities.

02:22Because there's still people on this planet that don't understand the inception of where this thing comes from,

02:29and how important it is, and how it's touched so many people.

02:32Children, grown-ups, college students. I want to do lectures.

02:37Because everything else, I've done. All the awards, I have them all.

02:43So our bucket list is lectures this year.

02:46And I just signed with Primary Wave, which is a major management company.

02:51So they're going to help me pull this off.