But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

Grandmaster Flash Kid Creole and Rahiem left Sugar Hill signed with Elektra Records and continued on as simply "Grandmaster Flash" while Melle Mel and the others continued on as "Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five". Joseph Saddler (born January 1 1958 in Bridgetown Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash is an American hip hop musician and DJ—one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing cutting and mixing. " The following year they signed to Sugar Hill Records and began touring and releasing numerous singles.

[by whom?] 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 thereby avoiding a break in the music. Joseph Saddler (born January 1 1958 in Bridgetown Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash is an American hip hop musician and DJ—one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing cutting and mixing.