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They thought he was mad, they spat him off stage, he hit the drugs ... But Grandmaster Flash gave 'DJ' a whole new meaning. Andrew Purcell meets a man who scratched his way to the topWith hindsight, making a mixtape of old school funk and hip-hop for Grandmaster Flash was a bad idea. "This is the wack part," he tells me, a few seconds into Shack Up by Banbarra. "They'd be throwing water at the speakers if we played that part." When we reach the drum break, halfway through this abbreviated, compi...

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