The post Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s Melle Mel Charged with Felony Domestic Violence appeared first on Consequence. Melle Mel, a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash ...

The olive branch has been accepted. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was the first Hip-Hop group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, largely thanks to their groundbreaking single, “The ...

GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE: Ladies and gentlemen, it's now the time for the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five MCs. (Rapping) We're coming. We're coming. We're coming. We're coming. We ...

Inspired by a new book tracing four pivotal years in the city’s history, hear a playlist of songs from the dawn of hip-hop that were swirling at the time. By Jonathan Mahler Hear songs from Lucy Sante ...

Grandmaster Flash is surely one of the most impactful and important figures when it comes to the early stages of hip-hop. Helping to revolutionize record-scratching and DJ-ing, the now-65-year-old’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Instead of guitars, there were turntables. Scratches replaced soaring riffs. An induction speech was read off a Blackberry. The hip-hop era arrived Monday at the Rock and Roll Hall of ...

HIP-HOP WAS BORN IN THE BRONX IN the summer of 1973. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout ...

MOSLEY: While DJ Kool Herc is often credited as the father of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash was one of the first DJs to make successful rap records and become a pioneer in the genre. In the '70s, he ...

Hip hop pioneer Melle Mel (born Melvin Glover) of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday and charged with felony domestic violence, Rolling Stone reports. He was ...