Grandmaster Flash

Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different. ”

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other. ”

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer. ”

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc. ”

Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing. ”

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. ”

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. ”

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times. ”

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along. ”

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary. ”