Not only was Flowers the first DJ to blend records together but you can hear in the mix with him playing two of the same records and making the echo like sound. He is the first dj I have heard doing that too. Those 60's and 70's records had live drum patterns so Flowers had to kind of ride the beat a little. He truely is the Father of Hip Hop! I have heard stories too of his huge massive record collection and how he took very good care of his records and also knew his records from the beginning to the end. Peace To the God Grand Master Flowers. The Father of Hip Hop. Yes Herc, Flash & others are Pioneers as well but just not as early as Flowers and to be honest most DJ's back in the 60's and 70's were not as talented or Perfectionist like Flowers was. Hands down DJ Grandmaster Flowers was the biggest DJ in the 60's & 70's and what DJ can say that they DJ'ed for James Brown.
Thank you Born Peace Allah, do you have anything confirming him playing at Yankee Stadium for JB because I keep hearing it but I don't see anything on record that Flowers did this. I even have the bill board for 1968 with JB but Flowers name isn't on it. Yes I am a Hip Hop Historian.
@@troylsmith21Makes a lot of since. Why would a DJ be on the bill board. DJ's werent doing concerts like that back then. Im in my 30's so obviously I wasn't born then lol I have only heard stories. Its James Brown... so anybody else especially a DJ probably wouldn't be mentioned on the bill board. I have no reason to think that so many people would be lieing about him being part of the event though.
In the late 60s there were no such thing call Hip Hop, he wasn't mixing scratching break beats looping or no b boys and b girls. Until the early 70s with Kool Herc when starting extended break proton of record emphasized on the same beats known as the Merry-go-round, in 74 Flash developed the quick theory technique by spinning back and fourth to the first ever dj market the break beats with an cranyon. Oh ! We can forget Grandwizard Thordore to first dj invented the needle scratching know as shigi shigi between the breaks.
@@donaldmccall3968 We can just agree to disagree my Brother. Im a DJ and Funk, R&B, Soul is Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flowers and Pete DJ Jones both were playing break beats back to back with 2 of the same record before Herc & Flash. Did Herc & Flash popularize the sound Yes but that doesn't mean they were the first. Before the Great Pete DJ Jones passed he was interviewed and said that he was mixing break beats before Herc & Flash. Like I said Herc & Flash get much credit for popularizing the sound but Flowers and Pete DJ Jones was doing it before them and I will say it again Flowers was djing before Pete DJ Jones came to New York from Raleigh, NC. Anyway we can agree to disagree. Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, Herc, Flash & The Grandwizard are all Legends. Its just Flowers & Pete DJ Jones were doing it first. Peace God. Oh are you a DJ? I am. So Im looking at it from a DJ perspective.
Will respected djs and might've have the stereo sound system and rocking blocks party with gigantic huge speakers but, Herc Flash Bataataama Thordore Funky Plus One and The cold Crush Brothers are originator of Hip Hop , No disrespect to Flowers or Jones they were molible dj that played disco music in the clube they didn't socialize the Bronx cat do bye keep the breaks going.
GRAND MASTER FLOWERS, NU-SOUNDS, CYPHER SOUNDS, INFINITY MACHINE, SOUND EXPERIENCE, THE GRANDWIZARD THEODORE, DJ SMALLS &THE DISCO TWINS! I'M SO GLAD I WAS THERE FOR THIS DISCO/HIP HOP EXPERIENCE! TOO BAD IT TURNED OUT TO BE THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE! FUN!
Hi Ms.Mary Charles. you are 100 percent correct, no words i can describe my first time going to a park jam when i was 9 with my older siblings. in heaven the music, the soul people our people having fun. as the years went i became a D.j. learning about the history and being around the pioneers. one group or person did not create but a collective that came to be. From your Pete D.j.Jones who was a friend - D.J.Chipps - D.J.Flowers who was a friend - Theodore who is a friend - Disco Twins my big bros. - Cipher Sounds - King Charles - D.J.Herc a friend to Mario the Disco King. was a beautiful black soulful experience.
@@marycharles146 Wow sorry almost forgot Jay the Professor Jamaica Queens, Ms.Charles can i ask you about Jay personally my facebook D.j.Shyne mark or markbrown984@yahoo.com i was asking disco kid woody wood's brother about Jay
@@mikeymellow6600 Yes my brother Mellow i used to see him rock the park jams at night, i ask Disco kid Woody Wood's brother about him Professor & Company i have been trying to look him up over the years. i like to ask you about him my e is markbrown984@yahoo.com
Grandmaster Flowers legend he use to Dj at the Zoo on Atlantic & Nostrand man I was too young to get in so I use to watch him Dj through a window and that beat was booming. I had a chance to meet him when he was practicing though made me want get into Djing
DJ Grandmaster Flowers & Pete DJ Jones are the Uncles's of Herc, Flash and other DJ's that came later. Much Respect to all of them and they all represented Hip Hop. If you agree that James Brown is Hip Hop then all the early DJ's and the ones who came later they all played James Brown. I still play James Brown til this day. So Rapping, Disco Rap, Hip Hop, MCing all that started here in The United States Of America from a DJ perspective in the 60's. And much love to KC Prince Of Soul who used to MC for Flowers and is one of the first Rappers to actually Rap on the beat. Now as far as Official Rap Records thats another story when it comes to Reggae in Jamiaca and if you agree that, that is Hip Hop too because there is reggae records that go back to the 60's lol also in Panama they was Djing and Rapping early too. What a great History Man I Love Hip Hop and always will Peace!
I remember GM Flowers,at Starks park,and Battle of the H.S. DJs From the mid-70s we was guest DJs at the club called a zoo on Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand,,Inner City Disco, ENY BKLYN.. you got to give credit when credit is due this man should be documented as well as plumber Pete DJ Jones
Peace my brother Djgrandwizard docdisco, Yes you are 100 percent correct we should do it because they contribute so much the the music D.J.Art form. was a you yourself a D.j. FROM THE GREAT ERA like to hear my e is markbrown@yahoo.com are you on facebook
Indeed..Much Respect to the dj of the 70's!...Flowers, Plumber, charisma Funk, and my Pops DJ Dr.tanquerey from Crown heights....His spot was Lincoln terrace park, and sterling between Ralph, and Buffalo.....He was the Greatest ever in my book!...He had mutual respect for all these legends......#Brooklyn!!🗽
Im not part of that era. I was born in 1982 but have been playing music like this and Chuck Brown when I started djing in 99'. Peace to the God Grand Master Flowers. Him and Pete DJ Jones were the first to extend the breaks. This is where Kool DJ Dee and King Mario got it from and brought it to the Bronx. Later on Herc, Flash and Bam helped to popularize it but from the mid 60's to the late 70's Flowers was the best DJ. He knew how to mix better than a lot of djs and keep a crowd on the floor. Even Pete DJ Jones said Flowers was the best.
Much love to them but they actually got the culture from Flowers. Flash said he got the Grandmaster name from Flowers. Herc used to break dance at Flowers Park Jams in Brooklyn . Flowers is the first DJ to Blend records together and those records wasn't computerized drums either, so blending those records were not as easy. Flowers was doing Park Jams in the 60's in Brooklyn and Hip Hop actually started in Brooklyn not the Bronx.
@@donaldmccall3968 Please tell me who was blending records in the 60's? It definitely wasn't Herc, Flash or Bam who didn't start djing until the early to mid 70's. Flash said himself that he got his grandmaster name from Flowers and also other DJ's and MC's too. Is JAMES BROWN Hip Hop? You ask James Brown in the 60's who was the dopest DJ and he would have told you DJ Grandmaster Flowers! I agree with the late Pete DJ Jones that Flowers was the dopest DJ in the 60's and 70's. He was djing at the biggest Clubs and also doing park jams. Flowers was the first DJ to blend records continuously. He was the first Mixologist. RIP to the GOD DJ Grand Master Flowers!
@@donaldmccall3968 You also need to understand brother that Herc, Flash and Bam were small dj's at the time Flowers was on top of his career. The biggest Clubs weren't trying to hire Herc, Flash or Bam they were just kid dj's at that time. They looked up to Flowers. Kool Herc said him self he used to go to Flowers Park Jams. Come on man. It is what it is!
Francis Grasso (March 25, 1948 - March 20, 2001)[1] was an American disco music disc jockey from New York City,[2] best known for being one of the first people to beatmatch.[3] Grasso, who attended Brooklyn Technical High School and Long Island University, started his DJ career in 1967-1968 at New York nightclub Salvation II.[3] When the primary DJ Terry Noel failed to show up on time one night, the owners offered Grasso a chance at the job. The crowd responded almost immediately and soon he had his first regular gig. It was there and at subsequent New York clubs such as Tarots and his most famous nightclub, Sanctuary - a former German Baptist church at 43rd Street & 9th Avenue (featured in the movie Klute) - where Grasso perfected his craft. The key addition Grasso brought to DJ culture was music programming, or the art of picking up on the energy of the crowd and sending that energy right back to them via the next track. At his early Salvation II gigs Grasso used Rek-O-Kut direct drive turntables and a basic cross-fader.[3] Initially he would change between records quickly, catching the rhythm of the current track by expertly starting the next record at the exact point he wanted.[4] Later he used turntables with pitch controls, which allowed him to develop beatmatching, syncing the tempo of two records for an extended period while fading between them.[2] He soon passed these techniques on to other DJs, including Michael Cappello and Steve D’Acquisto,[3] which helped spread the style throughout New York City. The skills and techniques he pioneered remain the foundation of what is heard in a modern nightclub.[2] Francis was interviewed in Josell Ramos' 2003 feature-length documentary Maestro.[5]
this its 1979 playing supersperm ? my hole block was playing them maybe he adopted this like when i adopted b boying in 78 from martial art acrobatics from early 70's & god only knows the 60's ....does that means i preceded the bronx boys ? o well ,maybe could be if your right
I mentioned to Kool Herc that we were Burning in 1967 Bk and Dj's in Brooklyn parks too.And Flowers was spinning in the late 60's from my understanding. I was a 10 year old latino shorty whom battled everyone in bball my rock.
The point is all these dudes in the Bronx zoo they were first and I know they were not first. The whole package came together in the Bronx but they went out first to do everything all they had to do was acknowledge.
+Walter DJMELLOWBWAX Kellam Thanks for taking the time to answer, I really do appreciate it. I saw this address before but...? Did they build over it? I figured it was Browar Park which is located on St Mark's? Sorry for being dense but was the old park in the spot where the building is on Google maps?
8:24 those drums he extending, the jump part or break part thats Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flowers and Pete DJ Jones were the first to extend the breaks. This is where Kool DJ Dee, Disco King Mario and Tyrone the Mixologist get it from and they were the founding fathers of the Bronx. And Black Disco (funk, R&B and Soul) is Hip Hop!
Instant replay repeating the breaks. And street chat.omg historic 😊😊😊😊
Not only was Flowers the first DJ to blend records together but you can hear in the mix with him playing two of the same records and making the echo like sound. He is the first dj I have heard doing that too. Those 60's and 70's records had live drum patterns so Flowers had to kind of ride the beat a little. He truely is the Father of Hip Hop! I have heard stories too of his huge massive record collection and how he took very good care of his records and also knew his records from the beginning to the end. Peace To the God Grand Master Flowers. The Father of Hip Hop. Yes Herc, Flash & others are Pioneers as well but just not as early as Flowers and to be honest most DJ's back in the 60's and 70's were not as talented or Perfectionist like Flowers was. Hands down DJ Grandmaster Flowers was the biggest DJ in the 60's & 70's and what DJ can say that they DJ'ed for James Brown.
Thank you Born Peace Allah, do you have anything confirming him playing at Yankee Stadium for JB because I keep hearing it but I don't see anything on record that Flowers did this. I even have the bill board for 1968 with JB but Flowers name isn't on it. Yes I am a Hip Hop Historian.
@@troylsmith21Makes a lot of since. Why would a DJ be on the bill board. DJ's werent doing concerts like that back then. Im in my 30's so obviously I wasn't born then lol I have only heard stories. Its James Brown... so anybody else especially a DJ probably wouldn't be mentioned on the bill board. I have no reason to think that so many people would be lieing about him being part of the event though.
In the late 60s there were no such thing call Hip Hop, he wasn't mixing scratching break beats looping or no b boys and b girls. Until the early 70s with Kool Herc when starting extended break proton of record emphasized on the same beats known as the Merry-go-round, in 74 Flash developed the quick theory technique by spinning back and fourth to the first ever dj market the break beats with an cranyon. Oh ! We can forget Grandwizard Thordore to first dj invented the needle scratching know as shigi shigi between the breaks.
@@donaldmccall3968 We can just agree to disagree my Brother. Im a DJ and Funk, R&B, Soul is Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flowers and Pete DJ Jones both were playing break beats back to back with 2 of the same record before Herc & Flash. Did Herc & Flash popularize the sound Yes but that doesn't mean they were the first. Before the Great Pete DJ Jones passed he was interviewed and said that he was mixing break beats before Herc & Flash. Like I said Herc & Flash get much credit for popularizing the sound but Flowers and Pete DJ Jones was doing it before them and I will say it again Flowers was djing before Pete DJ Jones came to New York from Raleigh, NC. Anyway we can agree to disagree. Flowers, Pete DJ Jones, Herc, Flash & The Grandwizard are all Legends. Its just Flowers & Pete DJ Jones were doing it first. Peace God. Oh are you a DJ? I am. So Im looking at it from a DJ perspective.
Will respected djs and might've have the stereo sound system and rocking blocks party with gigantic huge speakers but, Herc Flash Bataataama Thordore Funky Plus One and The cold Crush Brothers are originator of Hip Hop , No disrespect to Flowers or Jones they were molible dj that played disco music in the clube they didn't socialize the Bronx cat do bye keep the breaks going.
GRAND MASTER FLOWERS, NU-SOUNDS, CYPHER SOUNDS, INFINITY MACHINE, SOUND EXPERIENCE, THE GRANDWIZARD THEODORE, DJ SMALLS &THE DISCO TWINS! I'M SO GLAD I WAS THERE FOR THIS DISCO/HIP HOP EXPERIENCE! TOO BAD IT TURNED OUT TO BE THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE! FUN!
Don't forget professor & company
@@mikeymellow6600 Your right "Jay" is the professor! Thanks for the reminder friend 🙋🌸😄💕📣💙☺❣
Hi Ms.Mary Charles. you are 100 percent correct, no words i can describe my first time going to a park jam when i was 9 with my older siblings. in heaven the music, the soul people our people having fun. as the years went i became a D.j. learning about the history and being around the pioneers. one group or person did not create but a collective that came to be. From your Pete D.j.Jones who was a friend - D.J.Chipps - D.J.Flowers who was a friend - Theodore who is a friend - Disco Twins my big bros. - Cipher Sounds - King Charles - D.J.Herc a friend to Mario the Disco King. was a beautiful black soulful experience.
@@marycharles146 Wow sorry almost forgot Jay the Professor Jamaica Queens, Ms.Charles can i ask you about Jay personally my facebook D.j.Shyne mark or markbrown984@yahoo.com i was asking disco kid woody wood's brother about Jay
@@mikeymellow6600 Yes my brother Mellow i used to see him rock the park jams at night, i ask Disco kid Woody Wood's brother about him Professor & Company i have been trying to look him up over the years. i like to ask you about him my e is markbrown984@yahoo.com
After decades of hearing about flowers i finally get to listen to a mix..crazy!
Grandmaster Flowers legend he use to Dj at the Zoo on Atlantic & Nostrand man I was too young to get in so I use to watch him Dj through a window and that beat was booming. I had a chance to meet him when he was practicing though made me want get into Djing
DJ Grandmaster Flowers the Father of HIP HOP! The first one to blend records continuously! The first Mixologist!
Yeah, I gotta admit reading Mark Skillz wax poetry convinced me that he was blending records
DJ Grandmaster Flowers & Pete DJ Jones are the Uncles's of Herc, Flash and other DJ's that came later. Much Respect to all of them and they all represented Hip Hop. If you agree that James Brown is Hip Hop then all the early DJ's and the ones who came later they all played James Brown. I still play James Brown til this day. So Rapping, Disco Rap, Hip Hop, MCing all that started here in The United States Of America from a DJ perspective in the 60's. And much love to KC Prince Of Soul who used to MC for Flowers and is one of the first Rappers to actually Rap on the beat. Now as far as Official Rap Records thats another story when it comes to Reggae in Jamiaca and if you agree that, that is Hip Hop too because there is reggae records that go back to the 60's lol also in Panama they was Djing and Rapping early too. What a great History Man I Love Hip Hop and always will Peace!
Here comes the judge Pigmeat Markham was a rap song from the 60s
They said Grandmaster DJ Flowers did not play the break, breakdown but I am hearing the break, breakdown, and extended the breakdown
Yes Sr. And Bronx Fathers disco king mario, Kool dj dee and his brother Tyrone the mixologist got it from being under Pete DJ Jones.
Never heard of this cat until now 👍🏿💯
He is a legend in early Hip Hop circles.
Now this is real djing and emceeing, milk crate full o jamz, reefer in the air, breaks and the hosts with the most , dammmmn i wanna be there
Garbage
A legend
I remember GM Flowers,at Starks park,and Battle of the H.S. DJs From the mid-70s we was guest DJs at the club called a zoo on Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand,,Inner City Disco, ENY BKLYN.. you got to give credit when credit is due this man should be documented as well as plumber Pete DJ Jones
Peace my brother Djgrandwizard docdisco, Yes you are 100 percent correct we should do it because they contribute so much the the music D.J.Art form. was a you yourself a D.j. FROM THE GREAT ERA like to hear my e is markbrown@yahoo.com are you on facebook
Indeed..Much Respect to the dj of the 70's!...Flowers, Plumber, charisma Funk, and my Pops DJ Dr.tanquerey from Crown heights....His spot was Lincoln terrace park, and sterling between Ralph, and Buffalo.....He was the Greatest ever in my book!...He had mutual respect for all these legends......#Brooklyn!!🗽
You have to be in that era to appreciate the music
Im not part of that era. I was born in 1982 but have been playing music like this and Chuck Brown when I started djing in 99'. Peace to the God Grand Master Flowers. Him and Pete DJ Jones were the first to extend the breaks. This is where Kool DJ Dee and King Mario got it from and brought it to the Bronx. Later on Herc, Flash and Bam helped to popularize it but from the mid 60's to the late 70's Flowers was the best DJ. He knew how to mix better than a lot of djs and keep a crowd on the floor. Even Pete DJ Jones said Flowers was the best.
Better yet, I was born in 2002 and I understand it. i play these tapes on the daily
Grandmaster Flowers The Father of HIP HOP!
Nah, Herc, Bamtaataa, Theodore and Flash, they gave us the culture
Much love to them but they actually got the culture from Flowers. Flash said he got the Grandmaster name from Flowers. Herc used to break dance at Flowers Park Jams in Brooklyn . Flowers is the first DJ to Blend records together and those records wasn't computerized drums either, so blending those records were not as easy. Flowers was doing Park Jams in the 60's in Brooklyn and Hip Hop actually started in Brooklyn not the Bronx.
Hell naw , Herc will gose down in gener music that gave us the break beats the foot print of hip hop , other dos were doing blend before Flowers
@@donaldmccall3968 Please tell me who was blending records in the 60's? It definitely wasn't Herc, Flash or Bam who didn't start djing until the early to mid 70's. Flash said himself that he got his grandmaster name from Flowers and also other DJ's and MC's too. Is JAMES BROWN Hip Hop? You ask James Brown in the 60's who was the dopest DJ and he would have told you DJ Grandmaster Flowers! I agree with the late Pete DJ Jones that Flowers was the dopest DJ in the 60's and 70's. He was djing at the biggest Clubs and also doing park jams. Flowers was the first DJ to blend records continuously. He was the first Mixologist. RIP to the GOD DJ Grand Master Flowers!
@@donaldmccall3968 You also need to understand brother that Herc, Flash and Bam were small dj's at the time Flowers was on top of his career. The biggest Clubs weren't trying to hire Herc, Flash or Bam they were just kid dj's at that time. They looked up to Flowers. Kool Herc said him self he used to go to Flowers Park Jams. Come on man. It is what it is!
I remember Flowers. Yes sir. Rock on.
🎼💪🏿Grand Master Flowers 💯❤️
Great stuff
RESPECT. The BX NY
the real grandmaster
This is gold
Grandmaster Flowers is playing the breakdown
Sure is 8:24
We used to call them jams back then... me & my friends used to walk to all of them in bed stuy crown heights Brownsville & fort green...
This is a gem of a recording. bravo!!
Francis Grasso (March 25, 1948 - March 20, 2001)[1] was an American disco music disc jockey from New York City,[2] best known for being one of the first people to beatmatch.[3]
Grasso, who attended Brooklyn Technical High School and Long Island University, started his DJ career in 1967-1968 at New York nightclub Salvation II.[3] When the primary DJ Terry Noel failed to show up on time one night, the owners offered Grasso a chance at the job. The crowd responded almost immediately and soon he had his first regular gig. It was there and at subsequent New York clubs such as Tarots and his most famous nightclub, Sanctuary - a former German Baptist church at 43rd Street & 9th Avenue (featured in the movie Klute) - where Grasso perfected his craft.
The key addition Grasso brought to DJ culture was music programming, or the art of picking up on the energy of the crowd and sending that energy right back to them via the next track. At his early Salvation II gigs Grasso used Rek-O-Kut direct drive turntables and a basic cross-fader.[3] Initially he would change between records quickly, catching the rhythm of the current track by expertly starting the next record at the exact point he wanted.[4] Later he used turntables with pitch controls, which allowed him to develop beatmatching, syncing the tempo of two records for an extended period while fading between them.[2] He soon passed these techniques on to other DJs, including Michael Cappello and Steve D’Acquisto,[3] which helped spread the style throughout New York City.
The skills and techniques he pioneered remain the foundation of what is heard in a modern nightclub.[2] Francis was interviewed in Josell Ramos' 2003 feature-length documentary Maestro.[5]
8:24 those drums he extending, the jump part or break part thats Hip Hop. Chuck Brown - Bustin Loose. I still got Chuck in the mix til this day!
This already the dopest Hip Hop uplaod of the year.
Respect...
Grandmaster Flowers was a disco DJ through and through.
RIP. The Frankie Paradise Network NYC
Damn this so great d:_:b so funky
A legend 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wow this is a holy item,a holy upload ! Thanks uploader, SALUTE!!
Dope find, more people need to know he was from Brooklyn and was around the same time Herc was.
B4 Herc actually. Flowers was doing his thing since the late 60s
Salute
Fire..
BIG UP
god bless ya for this upload
Dope as fuck! 🔥🔥
Full of CULTURE yah.
He is playing the break
🔥
this its 1979 playing supersperm ? my hole block was playing them maybe he adopted this like when i adopted b boying in 78 from martial art acrobatics from early 70's & god only knows the 60's ....does that means i preceded the bronx boys ? o well ,maybe could be if your right
He he playing the breakdown break
I was Most likely There..I lived on St.Marks Between 4th-5thAvenue...
SO, HE CAME OUT BEFORE KOOL HERC? JUST WISH THESE FOUNDING FATHERS HAVE GREATER RECOGNITION AND BE WEALTHY. THEY WERE RIPPED OFF BADLY.
I mentioned to Kool Herc that we were Burning in 1967 Bk and Dj's in Brooklyn parks too.And Flowers was spinning in the late 60's from my understanding. I was a 10 year old latino shorty whom battled everyone in bball my rock.
They might of came before Herc but , he didn't started the culture of hip hop.
How they were ripoff and they'd didn't give us the culture of hip hop.
The point is all these dudes in the Bronx zoo they were first and I know they were not first. The whole package came together in the Bronx but they went out first to do everything all they had to do was acknowledge.
@@donaldmccall3968 so the man y’all say created hip hop has someone doing it before him yet you still won’t give it up. Fantastic.
How Flowers and Jones started disco in the late 60s, and they have other djs was doing staff before them on the terms talbs
best
He was rapping in 1979
This dj he gets down
Does anyone know the location in Brooklyn of St Marks Park? Is this the same park as Brower Park?
+Leon Norman 307 Saint Marks Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
+Walter DJMELLOWBWAX Kellam Thanks for taking the time to answer, I really do appreciate it. I saw this address before but...? Did they build over it? I figured it was Browar Park which is located on St Mark's? Sorry for being dense but was the old park in the spot where the building is on Google maps?
Leon Norman
Yes
+Walter DJMELLOWBWAX Kellam Thank you VERY MUCH for the information.
It's called stjohns park on Bergen st & troy av in crown heights
Flowers was blending disco not break beats.
8:24 those drums he extending, the jump part or break part thats Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flowers and Pete DJ Jones were the first to extend the breaks. This is where Kool DJ Dee, Disco King Mario and Tyrone the Mixologist get it from and they were the founding fathers of the Bronx. And Black Disco (funk, R&B and Soul) is Hip Hop!
He played the song too long...not blending the music...sorry he may be a legend but who can dance too hip and the MC boooo”