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DJ Grandmaster Flash on New Book Birth of Culture

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Grandmaster Flash joined the Rock Hall's first hip-hop class!

In 2007, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five became the first hip-hop act ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — cementing the South Bronx DJ's role as a founder of the genre.

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Hip-hop went from zero radio play in 1979 to the #1 streamed genre by 2017!

When Grandmaster Flash was pioneering DJing in the South Bronx in the early 1970s, hip-hop had no mainstream platform. By 2017, Nielsen confirmed hip-hop/R&B had surpassed rock as America's most-consumed music genre.

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