The Get Down: Grandmaster Flash on Finding The Beat and Changing the Musical World

It wasn't guys with rhymes who started hip-hop. It was guys with turntables, extracting five seconds of the beat from five minutes of a song.

"The deejays were the ones who invented hip-hop," says Grandmaster Flash, who should know because he was one of them. "The rappers were important, too, but they didn't come along until a few years later."

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