Grandmaster Flash: further adventures on the wheels of steel #634
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by Hip Hop legend GRANDMASTER FLASH!
Y'say... Y'say... Y'say / y'say / y'say (etc) and if you're not carrying that scratch sentence on in your head you have some SERIOUS homework to do. We flashback to the 20-teens to the era of the Beatdown radio show, Pip's XFM show which centred around (but not exclusively) rap and Hip Hop music. Pip had some stone cold legends guesting on there, as you will have heard on some previous flashback episodes, but THIS flashback is the Grandmaster Flashback of all of em. Flash has retained the pure enthusiasm and excitement you would hope for in a DJ and crate digging legend, and enthusiasm which radiates easily and - speaking as a DJ myself (this is producer Buddy typing) - makes me want to just grab an armful of records and hop on the turntables. It's just that pure fun mixed with discovery but entirely fueled by funk and straight up musical greatness. Although as you'll hear, Flash does speak like a true old skool DJ skipping through the 'wack parts' and heading straight to the break. You have to imagine how insanely brilliant that feeling must have been back then, when people just didn't know what these breaks and now classics were, and he even goes into the old trick of hot-watering the labels off and replacing em with dud labels to throw other DJs off the scent. It's hard to retain that mystery these days but back then it was just so different. Anyway - a beautiful snapshot of a truly crucial time in Hip Hop, a part of the genesis of what we know it as now. Whether you like it or acknowledge it or not, this is where it started. Lesson's started, yer late!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Before we get into the podcast, some of you will know I've worked with and been a fan of |
| 0:05.9 | calm, the campaign against Living Miserably for over a decade. They're a suicide and mental |
| 0:11.1 | health charity. And for the month of September, they're doing, they're working with podcasts |
| 0:16.1 | to raise money to help them keep doing what they're doing. And I'm one of the podcasts that they're |
| 0:21.5 | working with. I have a Tiltify page. I'm going to try and raise two grand. That's a lot of money |
| 0:26.5 | in this, in this day and age. So there's links in the episode description of all the latest |
| 0:34.3 | episodes. So please go over to my Tiltify page and chip in. But the whole |
| 0:39.8 | stay tuned campaign that they're doing is about things that are worth sticking around for. So each |
| 0:45.3 | week, I'm going to give you a new thing that I think is worth sticking around for. And the first |
| 0:50.5 | one is maybe going to catch you off guard. Are you familiar with you familiar with Twisted Metal? Right, hear me out. Hear me out. I don't think anyone was expecting this, but there was a PlayStation game when I was growing up called Twisted Metal. Me and my brother loved it. They announced a while ago they were doing a TV show of it. I was like, that's quite funny, but I'd imagine it would be rubbish. |
| 1:13.0 | I saw some clips and thought it doesn't look great. |
| 1:15.2 | But then I started watching it the other week, and I bloody adore it. |
| 1:18.9 | I've binged series one and almost all of series two straight off the bat. |
| 1:23.5 | So my first thing that I'm saying is worth living for is the TV series of Twisted Metal. |
| 1:30.2 | Who would have predicted it? |
| 1:31.5 | Anyway, I'll give you a new recommendation next week, but go to the link in the bio and donate and get involved. |
| 1:39.5 | That would be amazing. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm going to be doing some things on Twitch as well. |
| 1:42.2 | But yeah, we'd really appreciate your support. |
| 1:45.1 | All right, on with the podcast. |
| 1:46.8 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 1:48.6 | This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 634. |
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