Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has been sued for claims related to child sex trafficking. In August, a John Doe plaintiff filed suit for claims related to a string of alleged abuse which occurred ...

Funkmaster Flex and Hot 97 were served with an FCC complaint filed by an advocacy group over comments the DJ made defending Afrika Bambaataa during his show. Bambaataa has been under fire after ...

Controversial YouTube personality and one of Afrika Bambaataa’s alleged sexual assault victims Hassan “Poppy” Campbell says he was shot on Sunday (November 19) while livestreaming in the Bronx.

Afrika Bambaataa and Naughty By Nature. Their debut album, Sex Packets, was released in 1990 and quickly went platinum thanks to singles such as Doowutchyalike and The Humpty Dance. "The Humpty ...

For many hip hop connoisseurs, DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa are turntablism’s forefathers. Through practice they developed extremely high levels of hand eye co ...

In a year-long Hirshhorn show squirming with energy, the famous Brazilian twins replace discernment with populist exuberance.

notably hip-hop and electro with tracks like Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force blending – sampling even – elements of the band's back catalogue with their own. The extraordinary ...

Thereafter, a slew of New York artists – among them Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa and Marly Marl – established hip-hop as a serious force. Rather than simply a genre ...

Groups like Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force made great use of the 808. At the same time, sampling technology was becoming more advanced, and old-school producers like Marley Marl were ...

Four decades ago, an effervescent dance-pop single called “Holiday” hit the airwaves and the clubs. Not only did it earn ...

From the Computer World album, this is one source track that Afrika Bambaataa sampled to launch their own extended mixes.