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Posted by Robert
Rap News Network
9/16/2003 3:58:45 AM
Not many people know who Joseph Saddler
is, but most folks know by his other moniker,
Grandmaster Flash. He's definitely one of the
inventors of rap music. He was most recently
the musical director for Chris Rock Show on
HBO and also has his own radio show on
Sirius, the satellite radio network. In other
words, the man has a lot to say.
Recently Flash hooked up with New York
Daily News reporter and author Chrisena Coleman
to write "The Message: Grandmaster Flash's Story."
“The Message ...,” a 250-page book with black
and white retro photos, will be shopped to publishers
by agent Mark Green of Celebrity Talent Agency.
The book details the rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-recovery
lifestyle of Grandmaster Flash.
Flash also writes about how his group, Grandmaster
Flash & the Furious Five, was swindled out of profits
from big hits like "Freedom," "The Message" and
"White Lines" by record company honchos.
"The Message went gold in 21 days," Grandmaster
Flash writes. "It topped the charts in the United States,
United Kingdom and Asia. It broke all kinds of records.
To this day I still don't know how many copies of "The
Message" actually sold.
Grandmaster Flash ranked #8 on VH-1's 50
greatest hip hop artists of all time and received this
year's Billboard Founder's Award for his contributions
to hip hop.
This year, "The Message" became the first and
only hip hop record inducted into the United States
Library of Congress.
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