Grandmaster Flash beats back time

‘The Get Down’ series brings new attention to pioneering hip-hop D. J.

‘‘So here it is, 40 years later, it caught on. Pretty euphoric.’’

BY JOHN LELAND
CULTURE

Grandmaster Flash might easily have missed the hip-hop revolution. Born in Barbados and transplanted to the South Bronx as a child, he began his adolescence far from the city, in a group home for foster children in rural upstate New York. By the time...

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