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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Promotional Portrait
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Photographer
Richard Bailey
Record company
Elektra Entertainment Group
Date1988
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection, gift of The Seattle Times
Object number1997.522.32
Text EntriesGrandmaster Flash and The Furious 5 expanded the culture of Hip-Hop across the globe with their rapping and DJing skills. Making their debut as a group that performed for local parties in the Bronx then the world, the Furious 5 included Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler, b. 1958), Melle Mel (Melvin Glover, b.1961), his brother The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover, b.1960), Keef Cowboy (Robert Keith Wiggins, b. 1960-1989), Mr. Ness a.k.a. Scorpio (Eddie Morris, b. 1960) and Rahiem (Guy Williams, b.1963) from the Funky 4+1 more. The group is widely regarded as one of the greatest Hip-Hop groups of all time and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 as the first Hip-Hop group. With hits like, “Freedom”, “Birthday Party” and “The Message”, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five stood out as a unique group due to their ability to finish each other’s rhymes, mixing melodies and harmonies while also being able to keep the crowd hyped and engaged.
Black and white promotional landscape photo of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (L-R; The Kidd Creole, Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Keef Cowboy, and Scorpio) posing in front of two cars.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Date: 1980
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
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Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
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Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
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Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
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Date: 1981
Medium: ink; paper (fiber product)
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Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
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Date: 1980
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
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