Hip-Hop is always ready to champion the next, but for the generations that grew up with hip-hop back in two fertile periods of the genre — the late Seventies and the early-to-mid Nineties — there’s something to be gained by revisiting its heydays. Graphic novels, television, feature films and documentaries are resurrecting the culture’s past in what appears to be a mini-renaissance of hip-hop nostalgia. While music lovers are keeping a close eye and ear out for the new, everyone else seems to be focusing on the old schools. Grandmaster Flash, one of hip-hop’s elder statesman and an associate producer on the upcoming Netflix series The Get Down, says, “When it came to hip-hop there was always a misunderstanding of [the] who, what, where, why and when.”
