Complex says,
Hip Hop pioneers Grandmaster Flash and the legendary Furious Five are being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame making them the first rap group to be honored. The early innovators of Hip Hop will be acknowledged on March 12 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC. Flash is credited for the creating the process of blending two break-beats together and thereby creating one of the fundamental formulas for Hip Hop music.
Link to Rodrigo's blog entry, and Link to a 1984 video (screengrab above) for "White Lines," directed by Spike Lee and starring a very young Lawrence Fishburne. Dang dang diggity dang de dang. Here's a video for the Grandmaster's other best-known song, "The Message." Link. (thanks, Rodrigo Peñalba)
