The man who made 'Hair' groovy also made every hip-hop beat you've ever loved.
Score
MacDermot's catalog is the secret backbone of hip-hop.
Production
Archival footage of 'Hair' and 'Cotton Comes to Harlem.'
Director
Jeff Lunger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
MacDermot's 'Space' was sampled for Busta Rhymes' 'Woo-Hah!!' and about 200 other tracks—he bought the album back from his publisher for $1,000 and lived off those samples for decades.
The documentary barely scratches how MacDermot, a white Canadian, became the invisible architect of Black American music culture—there's a whole other film in that tension.
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