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Lots of DJs are known for digging through record bins, but our friends over at self-titled spend a lot of time digging through YouTube looking for vintage clips for our nostalgic entertainment. They just dug up this 1997 interview with DJ Shadow and Grand Master Flash that aired around the same time as Endtroducing. Shadow explains how turntables work while Kurt Loder still stumbles on the word “hip-hop.”
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This is the end of a decade we are closing in on, so sitting home is definitely not an option—especially since we have a whole weekend to recover (kudos to the party gods on that one).
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The MSM attack on hip hop continued today with Fox News reporting 60s British invasion band The Dave Clark Five actually received more votes for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame than hip hop pioneers Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five, but things were rigged to get a rap act into the Hall.
I’m not the biggest fan of Fox News and I trust them even less when they use unanimous sources so I’m not taking this story to be 100% bonafide, especially since reporter Roger Friedman really uses this as a chance to attack Rolling Stone mogul Jann Wenner who now chairs the Hall’s foundation. (read his story here )
Basically, it all breaks down like this… Friedman’s anonymous source tells him that on the first ballot count Flash came …
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