40 years ago today (9/2/76), Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five become the first rap act to play a theater when they do their first major gig, performing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. Rap and hip hop of course didnt exist much prior, perhaps the closest we’d get to that was Parliament Funkadelic. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five would go onto introduce various DJ techniques along with rap interplay and choreography that previously hadn’t been seen or heard before. Now of course its hard to find anything as pure as the beats and rhymes put out during this era of old school.Check out the video for Grandmaster’s 1982 hit “The Message”…
