Great show, writing, story, performances. *beep* a buncha whining about races, gay agendas and whatever other paranoid conspiracy theories are floating around in here. My lilly white honky ass and my Asian queen loved every minute of it.
shareI agree. This took me back to my time as a teenager. The Get Down was fun, and reminded me of some of the personally-important history of my generation. My partner, a musician, enjoys scoffing at disco music and rap as well, believing neither are valid forms of music. Well, this white woman danced until dawn to disco. I liked the beginnings of rap that I heard in NYC, and old-school rap (that does not promote misogynism, violence, etc.).
As rap has become more commercialized finding true voices has become difficult. Hip-hop? When Auto-tune came along I lost my faith in all musicians. Until I can hear them up close, live and in a small venue I don't believe in their vocal skills.
Now I follow and look for independent musicians. The music business isn't what it used to be, but was it ever what we thought it was? I don't think Traffic would have released the song "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" in 1971; perhaps we consumers were naive even then. Doesn't matter - buy the mp3's and love the music. I can't control anything else.
"Wow. Our town has only had a Whole Foods for three weeks and we already have our first gay kids."
Agreed.
I wouldn't watch this expecting a complete one-to-one historical account or correspondence of Hip Hop's past. While the majority of the setting is based off real life people and events it's obviously about fictional characters.
So, no need to b!tch and whine about that to those of you who need to point it out.
This is the era of The Donald Trump. Even a fun show like this is going to get a lot of flack.
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