Grandmaster Flash

WTOP Entertainment Editor Jason Fraley celebrate National DJ Day with hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash, who pioneered the genre with his 1982 hit “The Message” and later became the first hip-hop artist inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
They spoke in 2020 when he played the now-defunct U Street Music Hall in Washington D.C.

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