Grandmaster Flash - Birth of a Culture (SIGNED BOOK) ss9 Cardinals start as a joke

Cardinals start as a joke between two sixteen-year-olds in a sleepy fishing town on the southern coast of Ireland

Black Sabbath generated a storm of controversy over their allegedly Satanist lyrics and tore down one of rock music's last remaining taboos in the process

childlike and even melancholic at times

you know this album is straddling the decades of ska

Four years on

Grandmaster Flash - Birth of a Culture (SIGNED BOOK) ss9 Cardinals start as a jokeOne of hip hop's founding fathers charts the genre's birth, rise and transformation over the decades. Over fifty years ago, Grandmaster Flash, with other DJs in his neighbourhood like Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc, created the musical backbone of hip hop. This is a comprehensive journey through its origin story and the musical innovations which came along the way.