Music
Alice Keys and Grandmaster Flash are among the first batch of music legends set to be honored with the Black American Music Assn.’s new ICE Medal of Honor.
Sept. 13, 2023
Television
Baz Luhrmann has never been one to worry too much about the historical accuracy of the music in his films; think Jay Z in Roaring Twenties Manhattan (“The Great Gatsby”) or Elton John in turn-of-the-century Paris (“Moulin Rouge”).
Aug. 10, 2016
This week was consumed by a few monolithic brands, one musical, one technological.
Sept. 12, 2014
World & Nation
Kidd Creole, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, fatally stabbed a homeless man twice in the chest on a New York street.
April 7, 2022
Rhino Records’ new “The Showdown: The Sugarhill Gang Vs.
March 12, 1999
The Gang’s Sugar Hill Records labelmates Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five are also early rap influences, but much more substantial ones.
July 26, 1996
The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was the first hip-hop single to break into the national Top 40 pop charts, although anyone listening to it now for the first time probably would have a hard time picking up on what made the 1979 recording such a rap milestone.
Sept. 19, 2006
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, whose social-message music in the early 1980s earned rap early critical respect, is now the first rap act to make it onto the final ballot of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Sept. 14, 2004
There was a lot of talk at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction dinner here this week about recent anniversaries, from the 50th anniversary of the birth of rock to the 20th anniversary of the induction dinners themselves.
March 16, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
Barbados-born, Bronx-raised Grandmaster Flash is a major figure in the rap-music scene, thanks to his trend-setting 1982 track “The Message,” but his normally firebrand style was a bit less flashy than usual at his Hollywood Palladium concert Saturday.
March 3, 1986