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AFRIKA BAMBAATAA BIOGRAPHY
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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 Bronx, New York City.[4][3] He is 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 in the Bronx River Projects, with an activist mother and uncle. As a child, he was exposed to the black liberation movement and witnessed debates between his mother and uncle regarding the conflicting ideologies in the movement. He was exposed to his mother's extensive and eclectic record collection.
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Afrika Bambaataa
Posted on Jan 7, 2010
Afrika Bambaataa is undoubtedly one of hip hop’s godfathers.
As a teenager in the mid-1970’s, he fell into the Black Spades gang, but had a different interest than causing trouble.
Bam started deejaying in 1970.
He had a passion for buying records (he would later be known as the “Master of Records”) and his tastes were very diversified from rock to r&b to African sounds to Latin, calypso, and classical. Although Kool Herc was the top DJ at the time, Bam knew he owned most of the same records as Herc so he decided to start playing on his own.
His ideological influences ran the gamut of the black political leaders of the time. He saw the film Zulu which depicted the battle between British troops and the Zulu tribe in 1879. The British seem victorious before they are overwhelmed by the numbers of Zulus who spare their lives. He took his name “Afrika Bambaataa” which meant “affectionate leader” from the movie. In 1974 Bam decided to form his own Zulu Nation to help assemble what he referred to as “the elements” of the culture into organization. He original crew was called The Organization, but after two years he changed it into the Zulu Nation. It was a break da