Grandmaster Flash was probably one of the last people fans expected to see on The Masked Singer, but he surprised everyone when he was unmasked as the Polar Bear this week.
As the popular show treks through its ninth season, Flash made it through two episodes before his elimination in episode three on Wednesday (March 1). Upon his reveal, host Nick Cannon asked what made the Hip Hop pioneer want to do the show – and his response was simple: It makes him happy.
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“In the world today, there’s a lot of sadness and when I seen this show on a rough day I had for business – I was laughing!” Grandmaster Flash said. “It actually had me laughing. It allows you to let your guard down and just have fun. It’s a great show. It’s a great show.”
Check out his reveal below:
Coi Leray recently sampled Grandmaster Flash’s hit song “The Message” on her new smash “Players.” Just before its release, the legend linked up with the newcomer for a dinner in New York City.
“It was nice meetin Coi,” Flash wrote in a post with a photo of them afterward. “We chopped it up about Life, Music, the Business and she comes back with great answers — the Lady knows what she wants. Had a blast with her, until next time kid Watch out for her @coileray.”
Coi takes inspiration from the original cadence of the iconic early Hip Hop record and can be heard championing women on the track she’s since crowned the “new anthem.”
Funny enough, Flash and and the rest of the Furious Five weren’t fans of “The Message” when they first made it back in the early 1980s. As kids, the group didn’t necessarily see Sylvia Robinson’s vision for the song, but the Sugar Hill Records founder/CEO trusted her instincts.
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“I think we was really scared of change. Because we was like the biggest ghetto superstars before records,” Scorpio told HipHopDX last year. “And everything that got us to that point was real braggadocious, talking about girls, parties and this and that. And to hear a record like that with that slower tempo and everything, maybe it was just too real for us, like, ‘Yo, y’all got to grow up now.’
“Maybe we still wanted to be kids and sing about partying, those type songs versus being in reality. We like, ‘Oh wait, broken glass everywhere? Hey, you talking about where we live.’ Hey, hey, we know rats in the front room, roaches in the back. We know that. We live that. Maybe it was something that hit too hard for us.”
