GRANDMASTER FLASH & MC SUPERNATURAL - Redbox - Bank Hol Mon 28th Oct

Deaglan

POD.ie presents two hiphop legends..

GRANDMASTER FLASH
+ special guest MC SUPERNATURAL

REDBOX

BANK HOL MON 28th Oct

9pm till late

Tickets €16.50 incl booking fee from Ticketmaster and usual outlets

The man whose block parties in the late '70s are widely regarded as the birth of hiphop and rap music, GRANDMASTER FLASH will make a long-awaited an eagerly anticipated return to Redbox on Bank Holiday Monday 28th Ocotber after his memorable sell-out show at the same venue in April.

A real bonus comes with the appearance of another New York hiphop legend on this show - World Fresstyle Rap champ MC SUPERNATURAL whose crowd interaction and razor-sharp humour make him universally regarded as one of the best live rappers in the world ever.

Most people know Flash for his studio recordings as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – ‘The Message’, ‘Scorpio’, ‘White Lines’ and the rest. But few have ever heard Flash doing what he should be celebrated for – rocking the party in the Bronx during his heyday in the mid-70s.
On this 'Official Adventures Tour', Flash takes us through the different aspects of the block parties from the extended freestyle mixes to the tracks he used to play in their entirety ("I always brought it right down with some tunes for the hustlers!"). This will be to promote his new album on Strut records.

Grandmaster Flash- A Biography

Grandmaster Flash, one of hip-hop's founding fathers and the creator of the Quick Mix, was the first person to change the arrangements of songs by using duplicate copies of records and manually editing/repeating the climatic part (later called the "break") by rubbing the record back and forth. This became known as "cutting", which was later called "scratching". His deejaying style caught fire in The Bronx (and the world) and helped to propel DJs such as Funkmaster Flex, Grand Wizard Theodore, Kid Capri, DJ Scribble, Jazzy Jeff, Jam Master Jay, Q Bert, the Scratch Pickles, Cash Money, and many others, to stardom.

Flash was the first to debut trick deejaying skills like mixing records behind his back or beneath tables, kicking mixing faders with his feet, and the like. In the late 1980s, he was also the first DJ to develop and market his own DJ device, called the Flashformer. His group, The Furious Five, was a premier group toward the mid-1970s, known for their choreography, studded leather stage wear, and fierce rapping skills. Group member Cowboy was the first MC for Flash, who pioneered phrases like "Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like ya just don't care!," Clap your hands to the beat!," and "Everybody say, ho!," which have become staple in rap and hip-hop culture.

Flash's 1981 single, "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" was their first record to demonstrate hip-hop deejaying skills and the group's 1982 hit "The Message" was the first serious rap record.
As one of hip-hops pioneer DJs, Flash is responsible for introducing some of the following break records: "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James, "I Can't Stop" by John Davis and the Monster Orchestra, and "Disco Flight 78", and a host of other records.

Flash grew up in the South Bronx with a wide appreciation of music. He would sneak and raid his father's record collection and listen to records by Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and Stan Kenton. He would also raid his older sister's collection and listen to Michael Jackson, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, James Brown, Joe Corba, Sly and the Family Stone, and many others. Grandmaster Flash was fascinated with electronics, and his mother eventually sent him to Samuel Gompers Vocational High School to pursue his interest.

MC SUPERNATURAL

After stealing the show from Jurassic 5 in July; 'the greatest freestyle rapper in the world ever' the legendary MC Supernatural makes a welcome return to these shores when he plays at POD on Tuesday 6th November.

As the name suggests, Freestyle rapping is about the spur of the moment - literally making it you as you go along. MC Supernatural stunned the crowd at Jurassic 5's sell-out Redbox show with his unique show - he mingles with the crowd and invites audience members to name a topic of conversation which he will immediately break into a top-quality rhyme about. "Freestyle is the highest form of expression through one's self. There's two forms of freestyle, there is such a thing as a written freestyle but then there's freestyle freestyles.", says the man himself. This has to be seen to be believed.

MC Supernatural burst onto the US rap scene when he won the 'Battle of the World Supremacy Freestyle Championship' at the New York new music seminar. He went onto win that title 3 times before it was abolished - no one else could compete. A warm character who epitomises all that is good about crowd involvement and participation in a hiphop show; he has also toured as personal guest of The Pharcyde, Jurassic 5 and Dilated Peoples. He has released singles on Xceptional Records and Elektra/East West, and has yet to release an album he recorded with KRS-One. His spontantaneous live show has also been known to include near -perfect impersonations of other rappers such as Busta Rhymes, Biggie Smalls and Rakim.

Backing him up at this show will be Nottingham producer Joe Buddha (Sureshot Entertainments), a man who is fast on the way to becoming the UK's biggest hiphop producer. His recent production credits include Rodney P's 'Murderer Style' single, and El Fudge's album as well as MC Supernatural's 'Hiphop Lovesong' single.

"A great summer for hiphop in Dublin - the highlight of which was undoubtedly MC Supernatural's freestyle antics at Jurassic 5." Jim Carroll, The Irish Times.

“The greatest freestyle rapper in the world ever, MC Supernatural has to be seen to be believed.” Rolling Stone

Kali

Originally posted by Deaglan
After stealing the show from Jurassic 5 in July; 'the greatest freestyle rapper in the world ever' the legendary MC Supernatural makes a welcome return to these shores when he plays at POD on Tuesday 6th November.

Damn straight, he was bloody amazing at that show... and don't think I'll be missing this appearance either..