Netflix's The Get Down Makes a Glorious Return to the Birth of Hiphop

by Daudi Abe"In the beginning it would be like the record's spining." Charles Mudede
When I first heard about The Get Down on Netflix in 2016, as someone who teaches, writes and speaks about hiphop for a living I was definitely interested. Here was a dramatic series set in late-1970s South Bronx, New York, and primarily about a group of teenagers, the Get Down Brothers—performers at the epicenter of the formation of a global cultural earthquake that was the release of “Rapper’s