Grandmaster Flash Quotes
I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.
Flash, Grandmaster, and David Ritz. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. Broadway Books, 2008.
Joseph Saddler, popularly known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is an American rapper and DJ. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of hip hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop act to be honored. In 2019 he won the Polar Music Prize.