Hip-Hop Snapshots

Hip Hop Snapshots - The Scratch- Grand Wizzard Theodore


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Today’s snapshot drops the needle on the Bronx in the early ‘70s—where a teenage DJ accidentally made history. Grand Wizzard Theodore, the inventor of the scratch, didn’t just stumble onto a sound—he created a whole new instrument. With a turntable, a little curiosity, and his mom yelling at him to turn the music down, Theodore turned a mistake into a movement.

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Hip-Hop SnapshotsBy MWC