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Grandmaster or Grand Master may refer to:
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Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ—one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing.
He has been credited with the invention of the first crossfade by sourcing parts from a junkyard in the Bronx. It was initially an On/Off toggle switch from an old microphone that he transformed into a left/right switch which allowed him to switch from one turntable to another; switch from record one to record two.
Before this time DJs, like the first of them all, DJ Kool Herc, and then Afrika Bambaataa, would have to break up the party to pick up the needle and re-drop it on the record, or a new record; until Flash invented a new way to link one record to the other with the cross-fader. After this invention he went from being called Flash to Grandmaster Flash, having made a huge impact on the culture, he was repaid with this honorific name.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop/rap artists to be so honored.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Steve Tanabe (actor), Jeremy E. Jones (actor), Wanyee Leonard (producer), Wanyee Leonard (writer), Geary Campbell (actress), Derrick Wong (actor), Court Bivens (actor), Cornell Militaru (actor), James Liao (actor), Bartholomew Wang (actor), William T. Bayley (actor), Karlos de la Torre (actor), Anya Bykova (actress), Stacey Bell (writer), Matthew E. Fuller (director),
Plot: Dragon Medal combines Mixed Martial Arts, Drama and Fantasy to tell a story of betrayal, revenge, restitution and retribution. Created by Executive Producer, Wanyee Leonard, Dragon Medal explores the dilemmas of a dead spirit who can only advance to upper levels of spirituality once he makes a series of difficult earthly decision.
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Plot: Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, which belongs to the ruthless Japanese Yakuza who will stop at nothing to get it back. It's up to Max to stop the Yakuza, save the sisters and restore order to the peaceful island.
Keywords: action-hero, black-belt, brawl, character-name-in-title, chop-socky, duel, fistfight, guam, hand-to-hand-combat, heroActors: Matthew Barney (editor), Matthew Barney (producer), Matthew Barney (director), Matthew Barney (writer), Matthew Barney (actor), Mike Bocchetti (actor), Todd Christian Hunter (actor), Jim Tooey (actor), Jonathan Bepler (composer), Peter Donald Badalamenti II (actor), Heather Coker (actress), Richard Serra (actor), James Drescher (actor), Aimee Mullins (actress), Tara Stiles (actress),
Plot: Barney plays the Entered Apprentice and his opponents include the Order of the Rainbow for Girls (who look a lot like the Rockettes), Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law (two New York Hardcore bands), Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra. Molten Vaseline, dental surgery, a demolition derby by vintage Chrysler Imperial New Yorker cars and a gorgeous creature who is half-cheetah/half woman all figure in this latest edition of Matthew Barney's fever dream. Much of the action takes place in two New York landmarks, the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Saratoga Racetrack (upstate NY), the Giant's Causeway (Ireland) and Fingal's cave (the Scottish Isle of Staffa).
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