My dad never understood how I broke his turntable attempting to mimic parts of “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5. The 1981 song was ...

Decades ago, hip-hop wasn’t a genre or a phenomenon. It was mostly a teenager in his room, fiddling with two turntables. “I wanted to take this little bit of bliss and expand on it,” Grandmaster Flash ...

This year, NPR, along with member stations, has been marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of those stations, KEXP in Seattle, has been celebrating with a weekly podcast, 50 Years Of Hip-Hop.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grandmaster Flash is in awe of how hip-hop went from a genre he and his friends pioneered by walking around with boom boxes to a ...