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The production team also brought in Crash and Daze, two legendary graffiti artists who grew up in the South Bronx during that time period. They served as consultants and provided artwork for the show.
“I look at the Bronx in the 1970s as the Do-It-Yourself decade,” Daze says. “People who lived there were left up to their own (devices) to provide their own entertainment.”
Crash says “The Get Down” made him feel nostalgic for the ’70s Bronx, adding that “the music is so on point.”
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The Boogie Down Bronx comes back to life on Netflix in “The Get Down.”
The late-1970s hip-hop drama series from Baz Luhrmann, the filmmaker best known for “Moulin Rouge,” depicts a group of young black kids with big dreams in the poverty-stricken South Bronx.
It’s filmed on an elaborate, graffiti-covered set in Glendale, Queens, that resurrects the era’s grungy feel, and all over the area, including the neighborhood at its center.
Grandmaster Flash, the series’ associate producer, a South Bronx native and a pioneering artist, says it’s important for people to know about the origins of hip-hop and where the movement began.
“This little teeny place called the South Bronx, without realizing it, we created something that has become global,” Flash says.
Comprised of at least 12 one-hour episodes, “The Get Down” is a rare potpourri of music, art, dance and fashion – a story about the creation of hip-hop culture in the middle of disco’s glory days. The first six episodes are scheduled to debut on Aug. 12.
