The Get Down

"The Get Down" was started as "West Side Story" for African Americans with Latin Americans, as well as a response to competing "Vinyl" HBO and "Empire" Fox. The series begins in the summer of 1977 in the troubled Bronx. Heroes — the future of young black rappers and Puerto Rican diva. In the background - the political struggle in the fore - the story of first love and high expectations. Evil streets gnaw the strong…