How accurate is this documentary?
Everyone has a point of view that can distort facts. Are there any major things this documentary series got wrong?
I absolutely loved the series, by the way. Best history lesson I've ever had.
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It seems pretty accurate from what I can tell.
I think they failed to mention that Grand Master Flash didn't record on, scratch on or produce the significant "Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five" records (including The Message). Now he gets most of the credit for those records when the other guys made them. I'm not saying he isn't important in hip hop history, he is, but that is a great injustice to the Furious Five.
This series is neat but, I don't know if it is accurate however The Hip Hop Family tree is the best thing out there. Check it Check it, Check it out!
http://www.fantagraphics.com/series/hiphopfamilytree/?sef_rewrite=1
The very first point of the documentary is completely wrong/misleading.
They talk like Disco dominated everything, and funk was some kind of underground, hidden phenomenon in 1973, even saying they didn't play it on the radio. It is suggested that the style had dropped out by then.
Sly & the Family Stone hit #1 TWICE in 1970, Stevie Wonder had Superstition, Chaka Khan, Chic, The Ohio Players, and others were all getting radio hits. As late as 1976 you still had Funk songs hitting #1; Car Wash. You even had people like Rick James well on into the 1980's. Parliments' whole real peak sits right in the era they are talking about in this documentary.
The idea that you had to go to house parties to hear funk is ridiculous.