The Get Down
Electronic Music, Hip Hop and the Struggle of NYC
The Get Down
Electronic Music, Hip Hop and the Struggle of NYC
Back in 2017, Joseph Saddler, a.k.a Grandmaster Flash had a masterclass session with HOT97 (1), a classic hip-hop oriented media brand in the US, where he demonstrated the concept that secured his place as the founder of a great many things. Somewhere within this session, the Grandmaster diverts into some dialogue about the history of Hip-Hop which implies that a debate exists within the Hip-Hop community as to who and where exactly the culture comes from. To paraphrase: “you can Hip-Hop however you want, that’s okay, I can’t pass judgement, but you have to remember that until I did these things with the turntable, there was no continuous beat, so there were no rappers”.