Netflix Banks On Hip-Hop's Mass Appeal With 'Rapture'
The streaming giant hooks up with another veteran hip-hop journalist in Sacha Jenkins to add to its expanding roster of rap-related explorations.
Sacha Jenkins was just a nine-year-old kid coming of age in Queens, New York when 's "Rapture" broke big in 1981. An early harbinger of hip-hop's crossover appeal, it became the first song featuring rap vocals to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Today, rap regularly owns the top 10 and Jenkins, an O.G. even among the original generation of hip-hop journalists, has been documenting the culture from the inside out since its golden era. His latest contribution is an eight-part Netflix docuseries titled executive produced in part by Jenkins, that offers deep-dive profiles on contemporary artists including Rapsody, G-Eazy, T.I. and Dave East.
