Here's a recent interview with the pioneering rap DJ/rapper himself, Grandmaster Flash, talking about how both him and Baz Luhrmann went above and beyond to make the series as authentic as possible,and what was involved in all that:
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/08/grandmaster-flash-baz-luhrmann-get-down-netflix-series-turntablism-early-hip-hop
Thanks.
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No problem,you're welcome! I actually stumbled across that article in the current issue of Mother Jones, and figured it had to be online somewhere,lol---just to let people know that in fact, a whole lot of input from some of the original hip-hoppers themselves was, in fact, put into the show, and that Luhrmann himself insisted on it.
I just caught the first 2 episodes and the guy playing him looks EXACTLY like him.
"Money's flowing, everything is fine; Got myself an Uzi and my brother a nine"