3 Surprising Facts About Grandmaster Flash’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”

Label CEO Sylvia Robinson approved the record-with-records concept, surprising even Grandmaster Flash himself. Flash admitted he wouldn’t have known how to pitch the idea to a record label.

Robinson saw potential in the concept that Flash couldn’t articulate. She greenlit the project despite its unconventional nature.

The track became a landmark in hip-hop history. It was one of the first to showcase turntablism and sampling as a creative art form.