Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

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hip hop group musical ensemble song

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were a pioneering hip hop group from the South Bronx known for their innovative DJ techniques and socially conscious tracks like "The Message."

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Label Occurrences
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five canonical 9

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hip hop group ⓘ
musical ensemble ⓘ
song ⓘ
activeFrom late 1970s ⓘ
activeUntil mid-1980s ⓘ
associatedAct Grandmaster Flash ⓘ
Melle Mel ⓘ
The Furious Five ⓘ
awardReceived Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ
basedOn South Bronx street culture ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
genre hip hop ⓘ
old-school hip hop ⓘ
hasInfluencedGenre East Coast hip hop ⓘ
conscious hip hop ⓘ
hasPart Grandmaster Flash ⓘ
The Furious Five ⓘ
influenced Beastie Boys ⓘ
KRS-One ⓘ
N.W.A ⓘ
Public Enemy ⓘ
Run-D.M.C. ⓘ
surface form: Run-DMC
knownFor innovative DJ techniques ⓘ
socially conscious lyrics ⓘ
turntablism ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
locationOfFormation New York ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
South Bronx ⓘ
memberOf Grandmaster Flash ⓘ
Keef Cowboy ⓘ
Kidd Creole ⓘ
Melle Mel ⓘ
Rahiem ⓘ
Scorpio ⓘ
notableAchievement first hip hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ⓘ
notableWork Freedom ⓘ
New York New York ⓘ
Superrappin’ ⓘ
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel ⓘ
The Message ⓘ
The Message (Instrumental) ⓘ
surface form: The Message (single)

White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) ⓘ
performer Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five self-linksurface differs ⓘ
pointInTime 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ
recordLabel Sugar Hill Records ⓘ
theme inner-city life ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
urban social issues ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sylvia Robinson → producedFor → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" → samplingArtist → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
Melle Mel → memberOf → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
The Message → performer → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
Sugar Hill Records → notableArtist → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
The Sugarhill Gang → associatedAct → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five → performer → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: The Message (single)
Joseph Robinson Sr. → associatedWith → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ
Sylvia Vanderpool → associatedAct → Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ⓘ