True school radio afrika bambaataa biography

  • Afrika bambaataa famous songs
  • Is afrika bambaataa still alive
  • What is afrika bambaataa known for

    • •

    Afrika Bambaataa

    American DJ, rapper, and producer

    Musical artist

    Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa (),[2][3] is a retired American DJ, rapper, and record producer from South stadsdel i new york, New York City.[4][3] He fryst vatten notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip hop culture.[5] Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeatDJing.[1]

    Through his co-opting of his street gang Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented organization Universal Zulu Nation, he has helped spread hip hop culture throughout the world.[6] In May 2016, Bambaataa left his position as head of the "Universal Zulu Nation" due to multiple allegations of child sexual abuse dating as far back as the 1970s.[7]

    Early life

    [edit]

    Born Lance Taylor to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants,[8] Bambaataa grew up i

    •

    You played a lot of crazy stuff.

    I got into Hugo Montenegro, looking for the Godfather theme, which was a break, and then they had another one, Dick Hyman who did a more electronic type of James Brown groove. Then I got into Gary Numan, couple of other things, and mixing their stuff up with the funk, and James and Sly. It was an interesting mix for our audience. They were bugging out when we got into “Cars,” and “Metal,” and you see the audience waits wants to hear the beginning of “Metal,” the synthesizer and the beat just claps and stuff...

    How did they react?

    At first it was a bugged reaction. Certain records that when I played some people were, “What the fuck is this?” they stopped, but I keep repeating it, over, I come back with something else, and then komma back with that record again.

    What records took a while…

    I had a record from the Philippines called “Ego Trippin’” with this group called Pleased, and inom kept playing just the breakbeat, just to get people going. It us

  • true school radio afrika bambaataa biography

    • •

    HIPHOP.SH

    Poppin’ and Lockin’

     

    THIS YEAR AFRIKA BAMBAATAA CELEBRATES THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLANET ROCK, BUT BEFORE TRAVELLING BACK TO THE START, HE SPEAKS TO RIP NICHOLSON ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT RECORD AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE DJ IN A CULTURE HE CREATED.

    Hip hop has been played like a 40-year game of broken telephone. Through misinterpretation, it has fallen to a predisposed term for a rap industry. Like the voice of God himself, the legendary Afrika Bambaataa Kahim Aasim speaks only of the gospel in a tone befitting the mythical status of a founding father. While DJ Kool Herc was amassing his Herculoid sound system at Cedar Park, down south, Aasim was transforming rioting gangs of the Bronx into battling participants of what he and Keith ‘Cowboy’ Wiggans would soon coin as hip hop. The revered and followed DJ was a born leader, but before Aasim was to become a much fabled chunk of music history, he would command a strong authority over the warring streets