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Grand Wizard Theodore accidentally invents scratching in 1975 (or does he?)

Angus Batey, The Guardian, 13 June 2011

AMONG hip-hop's canonical creation myths, few are as perfectly formed as Grand Wizard Theodore's invention of scratching.

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