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Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#People
#Stories
#Hearing
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Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Years
#Cake
#Eggs
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The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Rap
#Hip Hop
#Records
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In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Records
#Sides
#Slides
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I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Able
#Needed
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I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Hands
#Records
#Reckless
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That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Diversity
#Missing
#Style
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Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Hip Hop
#Misunderstood
#Hips
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There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Perfect
#Historical
#Film
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I used to travel 200 days of the year. I had to calm it down because I have a 17-year-old daughter going on 30, and a 23-year-old son. I want to be around for them.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Daughter
#Son
#Years
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A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
#Want
#Journalist
#80s
